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My “Andy, Feral Wonder Cat & International Viral Sensation”...
My “Andy, Feral Wonder Cat & International Viral Sensation”...
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J Sigmo
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You need to be very sure you want to get this started with me! How much storage space is there in the IPCT servers? 
You need to be very sure you want to get this started with me! How much storage space is there in the IPCT servers?
Does not take any space on forum if you use sites like Imgur: The magic of the Internet to post pics... Also TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting is a good one
J Sigmo
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I have a good hosting account. However, many forums load your photos onto their servers rather than simply linking to the user's host.
The problems with most free photo hosting services are: 1, they eventually want to make money, so they suddenly begin charging a lot, and people drop them, leading to broken links in old forum posts. 2. They have limits on the space a free user has, so people delete images to make room for new ones leading to broken links in forum posts. 3, they change the URLs for images that the user reorganizes, leading to broken links in old forum posts. 4, they go belly-up, leading to broken links in old forum posts.
I warned people in a great gun forum about this for a long time, and when a certain free hosting site suddenly started charging an exorbitant rate, they all dropped it...leading to thousands or hundreds of thousands of broken links in years worth of old forum posts.
Anyhow, that broken link business is why a lot of forums choose to store and host all images rather than relying on the members' many, individual hosting services. It is really disappointing to be reading a thread and then have the images in a potentially helpful or interesting post all be little missing image icons instead.
I prefer to use a paid hosting service myself, because I not only want my old forum posts to retain the images I have posted, but I do use it for some professional work, as well.
But really, I was mostly joking with my post above.
I have a good hosting account. However, many forums load your photos onto their servers rather than simply linking to the user's host.
The problems with most free photo hosting services are: 1, they eventually want to make money, so they suddenly begin charging a lot, and people drop them, leading to broken links in old forum posts. 2. They have limits on the space a free user has, so people delete images to make room for new ones leading to broken links in forum posts. 3, they change the URLs for images that the user reorganizes, leading to broken links in old forum posts. 4, they go belly-up, leading to broken links in old forum posts.
I warned people in a great gun forum about this for a long time, and when a certain free hosting site suddenly started charging an exorbitant rate, they all dropped it...leading to thousands or hundreds of thousands of broken links in years worth of old forum posts.
Anyhow, that broken link business is why a lot of forums choose to store and host all images rather than relying on the members' many, individual hosting services. It is really disappointing to be reading a thread and then have the images in a potentially helpful or interesting post all be little missing image icons instead.
I prefer to use a paid hosting service myself, because I not only want my old forum posts to retain the images I have posted, but I do use it for some professional work, as well.
But really, I was mostly joking with my post above.
Kool what paid image hosting do you recommend? I would be interested. I was using photobucket for the longest time until they stated getting really crappy.
I actually have a good pic I can post and it was got with the DVR where my wife locked Sammy (One of our Cats) in my room and she's sitting up on the desk at the door just waiting for someone to let her out. LOL I will post if I can find it.
Our 8-3/4 year old Chihuahua 'Coco' just LOVES to dig! Here she helps with a new herb & spice bed., March of 2018.
Here's a shot of "The Wrecking Crew" in the enclosed sunroom, December 2018. It's in the 40's outside but the small sunroom is about 74 degrees so they're loving it.
Sophie is an estimated 7 year old female rescue and mother of Taco. We got her April 2015. DNA says Chihuahua, corgi and dachshund.
Chica is a registered Chihuahua and genuine couch potato. Born July 14, 2012.
Taco is a male, son of Sophie and was only an estimated 6 weeks old when he and his mom were thrown literally out in April of 2015 and we took them in. He had severe hydocephalus at the time and then liver failure 2016....almost 4 years later one could say he's a survivor.
Coco is the Alpha female, a pack plankowner, born 4th of July 2009.
Here's a shot of "The Wrecking Crew" in the enclosed sunroom, December 2018. It's in the 40's outside but the small sunroom is about 74 degrees so they're loving it.
Sophie is an estimated 7 year old female rescue and mother of Taco. We got her April 2015. DNA says Chihuahua, corgi and dachshund.
Chica is a registered Chihuahua and genuine couch potato. Born July 14, 2012.
Taco is a male, son of Sophie and was only an estimated 6 weeks old when he and his mom were thrown literally out in April of 2015 and we took them in. He had severe hydocephalus at the time and then liver failure 2016....almost 4 years later one could say he's a survivor.
Coco is the Alpha female, a pack plankowner, born 4th of July 2009.
Coal - 4 years old
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This is our little boy, Leonidas, about two months after we got him, say five months old -
Here he is a little more recently, last summer -
He's about 140 pounds now, a South African Boerboel.
Here he is a little more recently, last summer -
He's about 140 pounds now, a South African Boerboel.
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Beautiful dog who looks a lot like my long-gone 180-pound Old English Mastiff "Olivia."
There is something SERIOUSLY wrong with someone who owns four (4) Chihuahuas.
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Lots of Mastiff went into the breeding of the Boerboel. The thing that sold us on them was a picture of a baby puling on the ear of a full grown one while a parrot was sitting on its head. Don't let anyone, other than family, come on the property without an escort though.
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Coal looks like a black lab. We had a black lab for 15 years by the name of "Molly." All of our dogs have been wonderful creatures, but Molly was the best and it still brings pain to my heart when I think of her being gone.
awsum140
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My avatar is Bomani, our first Boerboel who we adopted at age four. I still miss him badly, but Leo has become a very good boy and is worth all the effort.