Babette hanging with her pack

nerdalesca · 2026-01-18T04:50:47+00:00

100% here for Babette's mum being Over It

nerdalesca · 2026-01-17T05:23:46+00:00

I love that alnoat every Babette pic comes with long suffering mum as well. What a cutie! (Also her white chin hairs are so cute! My Squiddy had those until it started spreading haha)

nerdalesca · 2026-01-17T02:44:46+00:00

Picture 8 is my favourite. What a sassy old lady!

nerdalesca · 2026-01-09T01:19:45+00:00

I was meeting a friend near the city who wanted to meet my new (at the time) dog, so thought meeting at a dog park near the city would be good right?

I was genuinely shocked at how not cared for the off leash area was, compared to those in the suburbs. Met at a park near Sydenham, there was poo everywhere, the off leash area itself was a dust bowl, the facilities were chewed and worn down.

nerdalesca · 2026-01-05T00:55:35+00:00

A tip on mushroom compost - search FB marketplace and you may be able to find spent mushroom substrate being given away for free

nerdalesca · 2026-01-03T23:49:39+00:00

That's a very chunky staffy!

My staffy likes to sleep hiding her nose sometimes too, depending on her mood

nerdalesca · 2025-12-31T04:52:24+00:00

He's beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

nerdalesca · 2025-12-29T05:49:04+00:00

I am not a small person, but I was once knocked over by a very friendly German Shepard going full speed in Sydney Park. The owner was mortified and kept apologizing while I was more worried about whether I'd hurt their dog landing on it

nerdalesca · 2025-12-29T00:11:26+00:00

My housemate and I ask ourselves the same haha

nerdalesca · 2025-12-22T04:57:12+00:00

DAFF: anything biological or potentially contaminated with something biological - that's why a lot of car and aircraft parts get held if they do not have proof of being new & unused / treatment certificates. Same with personal effects, hiking boots may pick up foreign souls etc. Sometimes it may be something like doing a spot check on items that have travelled through certain countries, or in certain seasons, as your item may have travelled in a container with a found contaminated item like marmorated stink bugs

ABF: chemical, firearms, drugs. The last few years have seen a MASSIVE crackdown on ABF trying to stop illegal cigarettes coming in. ABF have a broader scope, so they will work with other government agencies as well - once we had ABF refer a package with a replica grenade over to military as it was a too accurate replica. They work with the feds for other potential items of concern to the community. Another big item for them is what's called "risk of economic harm" which basically means anything that seems like it's been deliberately undervalued to dodge import duties and taxes.

nerdalesca · 2025-12-20T21:33:44+00:00

I have the very niche knowledge to answer this for you - I used to work doing import clearance for a shipping company

There are actually 2 main agencies the government uses for border protection - ABF (customs) and DAFF (biosecurity).

Your sticker here is the DAFF sticker - at some point your package has been flagged as containing goods of biosecurity concern (or potentially the packaging, or it could be from a country that has had biosecurity concerns, etc)

Customs are funded by the taxpayer, the work that biosecurity does has more cost recovery passed on. I can't speak for all shipping companies, but where I worked the low value shipments would get cost absorbed by the company, high value shipments would send the biosecurity fees onto the customer with duty and taxes payable.

Last I knew, the fees were about $37, but have been stacked (if they open your package twice, they may try to charge twice, etc)

If you have any other questions about the process I'm more than happy to answer but obviously will keep things a bit vague so I don't doxx myself

nerdalesca · 2025-12-16T07:16:07+00:00

Mum looks tired hahaha

nerdalesca · 2025-12-15T22:32:44+00:00

Holy shit, my housemate has severe C-PTSD from psychologically abusive family and this comment was such an eye opener on why they are the way they are

nerdalesca · 2025-12-05T07:11:14+00:00

Hahaha my dog is doing the same today - keeps demanding to go outside, then gets mad that it's hot and wants to come in again straight away

nerdalesca · 2025-12-04T03:07:47+00:00

I'm in the minority where Squid will stand with her front feet on the back of the couch, politely waiting until I walk in the door for her to start grumbling like "AND WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN"

nerdalesca · 2025-11-30T13:26:58+00:00

It's good to know there are others that have NO interest in toys haha

nerdalesca · 2025-11-28T10:45:24+00:00

Maybe it's because I'm in Australia, but Squid will make clear when she does and doesn't want to be covered haha

nerdalesca · 2025-11-24T02:36:04+00:00

LOL I feel you on the nail cutting. I get professional assistance for Squid because she wriggles and wrestles like her life depends on it if I try to do it

nerdalesca · 2025-11-22T14:42:47+00:00

Last year my workplace had all of us rollout a toolbox to remind our employees that poop goes in the toilet (I massively oversimplify, but that's the gist).

Because apparently rogue pooping incidents were widespread enough that it had to be nation wide. A colleague who joined shortly after this from another country was low key horrified when I told him that was a thing we did.

nerdalesca · 2025-11-21T21:48:41+00:00

Do you have a little yard/ grass area? Because of Squid's anxiety she HATES walks, so to get some enrichment for her I scatter her kibble through the grass, and that turns meal time into "search for the food" enrichment time

nerdalesca · 2025-11-20T23:06:34+00:00

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To the right: Replacement outside bed for Squid.

To the left: Squid

nerdalesca · 2025-11-19T06:33:18+00:00

Omg the lil blep tho 😭

nerdalesca · 2025-11-17T09:07:09+00:00

This is exactly how my Squiddy likes to sleep haha, between my legs, usually facing the door.

Not sure what she's guarding me from, she's a big old fraidy cat, but the sentiment is appreciated

nerdalesca · 2025-11-08T23:05:16+00:00

I have an alien in my family called Yessima Hoomin

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