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Old 20-08-2008, 07:33 PM   #1
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I've just seen the poor little whale thats lost its mother on tv, lets hope they can save the poor thing!

Any ideas what they can do, to save colin?

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Old 20-08-2008, 07:35 PM   #2
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Old 20-08-2008, 07:40 PM   #3
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ethanase him...poor thing... that is cruel what they are doing....
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Old 20-08-2008, 08:15 PM   #4
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ethanase him...poor thing... that is cruel what they are doing....
I love animals and would do anything to save one. Having said that there are times when you are just prolonging misery. I think this is such a case. Somtimes the human need to be kind can become selfish.

So I have to agree with the above.

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Old 20-08-2008, 09:16 PM   #5
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should never have interfered with it in the first place. these do gooders break there own rules. let nature run its course. who knows what would of happened if they did not coax the whale out to sea? maybe they may have scared the mother off in doing just that. who knows. dont euthanese him, who knows his mum may come back or not. just let nature run its course.while its sad but it may also be good. interfering ain helping.
get the do gooders onto the other story of the the sharkfin delicacy. it was on pretty much straight after 10000 sharks killed for there fins. what a waste.

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Old 20-08-2008, 09:29 PM   #6
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A couple of colleagues of mine - recently moved here from Norway, heard about this today, they can't believe all the fuss. Where they come from, young Colin would not go to waste........

I personally find it sad, and even upsetting, but the reality is, this scenario gets played out at sea countless times every year. Orcas eat them, mothers abondon them, yachts hit them, ships chop them up.

But it's happening in Suburbia and every bleeding heart with good intentions wants to save a precious life.

Meanwhile, another 10,000 people will die of starvation or disease, but I bet more Australians lose their chee over a baby whale. That's even more sad than Colin's fate.
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Old 20-08-2008, 10:19 PM   #7
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Call in the Japanese, they'll know what to do.
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Old 20-08-2008, 10:42 PM   #8
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Meanwhile, another 10,000 people will die of starvation or disease, but I bet more Australians lose their chee over a baby whale. That's even more sad than Colin's fate.
ain't that the truth. humans are a funny breed aren't they.
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Old 21-08-2008, 01:42 PM   #9
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Leave it be, it will either find its mother/vice versa or it will feed the local population of sealife. Thats what it would be doin if it were another 20k's off the coast so why interupt. Nat Geo has a rule for its reporters/photographers. DONT INTERUPT with the natural way of things. Maybe they should take a leaf..
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Old 21-08-2008, 02:05 PM   #10
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Old 21-08-2008, 02:13 PM   #11
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Euthanise the poor thing, death by starvation is cruel.
It's poor mother won't be back. The animal kingdom is wise. Chances are there is something wrong with this calf and the mother intentionally abandoned it. It's been documented that under normal circumstances a mother will not leave a healthy calf sometimes at the cost of her own life.
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Old 21-08-2008, 03:46 PM   #12
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well theres that or the mother couldnt find enough food to feed it - or its from western sydney :P
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Chances are there is something wrong with this calf and the mother intentionally abandoned it. It's been documented that under normal circumstances a mother will not leave a healthy calf sometimes at the cost of her own life.
I've heard that it might have sight problems, so its possible.
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Old 21-08-2008, 07:45 PM   #16
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Shame to see the poor thing suffer, either get colin to go to out to see or put him out of his misery..
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A couple of colleagues of mine - recently moved here from Norway, heard about this today, they can't believe all the fuss. Where they come from, young Colin would not go to waste........

I personally find it sad, and even upsetting, but the reality is, this scenario gets played out at sea countless times every year. Orcas eat them, mothers abondon them, yachts hit them, ships chop them up.

But it's happening in Suburbia and every bleeding heart with good intentions wants to save a precious life.

Meanwhile, another 10,000 people will die of starvation or disease, but I bet more Australians lose their chee over a baby whale. That's even more sad than Colin's fate.
Bloody right

I say we charter a QANTAS plane and freight him in crates over to Africa
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Shame to see the poor thing suffer, either get colin to go to out to see or put him out of his misery..
...and eat him.
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Old 21-08-2008, 08:37 PM   #19
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Fish fingers for Africa.
At least, gramps always said waste not, want not...
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Old 21-08-2008, 10:51 PM   #20
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They said on ABC news that they are going to euthanise him, ah well.
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Old 21-08-2008, 11:01 PM   #21
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Why not get Japan to save him, after all, with all their research they are the whale guru's
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Old 21-08-2008, 11:01 PM   #22
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They did resort to euthanasia - he's dead :
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They did resort to euthanasia - he's dead :

Last i heard on the news they couldn't find him. he'd dissapeared
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Old 22-08-2008, 01:02 AM   #24
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I say we charter a QANTAS plane and freight him in crates over to Africa



Qantas F##K they are having a hard enough job just doing the day to day stuff without putting a whale on board ,for one the whale wouldnt get on board as Qantas s track record aint so good in the last few weeks !!!!!!!
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This will do it !

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What a blown up farce, damn the media,dogooders and all.
Should have let nature take its course and be done with it.
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We should let nature take its course - shut down all hospitals, fire all doctors, heck mate vetranarians illegal too, dont need those either...why are we letting all these inferior genetic people and animals breed?

Its not so cut and dry.

Edit - I am not saying either side is right here, I can see both points of view, but the ethics of the situation are not simple.
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Old 22-08-2008, 12:33 PM   #29
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If we have the intelligence to put an animal out of its misery... then why not?.... Anyways thank god he was put to sleep.
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Btw her name is Colleen....
There is a whale washed up on the south coast..
Possibly its mother...
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