When 'Wild' comes to live inside! by justjoy

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· @justjoy ·
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When 'Wild' comes to live inside!
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<p>My love for warthogs baffles most people, especially people who have no sense of humour! In the wild after a long day of game viewing, what is more entertaining than coming across a little family of lowly warthogs (after lion and cheetah sightings) . They drop to their little bony knees to forage.</p>
<p>https://i.postimg.cc/fbHGyKs0/warthogs-on-knees.png</p>
<p><a href="">Image Source</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;Papa WARThog is handsome beyond words with those great knobbly growths on his face. He faces any danger defiantly, even a lioness, to protect his family. He leads the escape, tail held high, mama close behind him, tail also held high and behind come the three kids in hot pursuit....just dust in the predator's surprised face. So brave........so amusing!</p>
<p>My friend Ed is a lawyer but what saves him from being a nit picking boring person meshed in the ways of the law, is his sense of humour and his random acts of kindness.</p>
<p>He saved a baby warthog and Ed has topped my chart of great people for ever amen.</p>
<p>https://i.postimg.cc/g27jhvm1/baby-warthog.png</p>
<p><a href="">Image source</a></p>
<p>The sad story isn't a pretty one. Briefly, the mother was hunted and eaten and her baby was seen running scared on Ed's farm by a staff member who reported it to Ed.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Rescue mission sprang into action. The Landrover revved its engine and with some net arrangement in hand to facilitate the capture, the 'boys' tracked him down.</p>
<p>True, the little thing was traumatised but it is amazing what a warm drink of milk in a lamb's bottle and kind arms can do to soothe shattered nerves. Wally the Warthog became an institution on the farm called 'Haven'...........a fitting name for a wonderful place of refuge.</p>
<p>As a baby, Wally had the free run of the house and he became one with the pack of dogs.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But he grew big, then bigger and finally he sported tusks and was enormous.The kitchen staff, catering for guests put their collective 'foot/feet' down and banned Wally from their area.....understandably so because he was not aware of the mud and flies that sometimes in the heat, trailed in with him.</p>
<p>But, Wally was not a clever warthog for nothing. Skills he would have used in the wild came in handy, adapted for house invasion techniques!&nbsp;</p>
<p>The kitchen combined with a large friendly open plan dining room which could seat 10 people for a farmhouse breakfast, left Wally cold but what did warm his heart was the large cushioned sofa whose back was towards the working area of the kitchen. Ha! He used all his sneaky bush skills and after edging the back door open with his tough snout, he would wait until everyone was busy cooking up a storm or out picking fruit or herbs or something and crawl in on his belly and edge around the frill of the sofa, half hidden by the folds of fabric. He would wait for the dreaded word "OUT!!!" but sometimes if he lay 'doggo' for long enough he could gradually, inch by inch ease his hairy, warty, tusky bulk into the heavenly comfort of the fat cushions of the couch.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It was only his snores or the squeal of a very surprised guest that alerted Maggie or Daisy in the kitchen to the unhygienic intruder and much waving of dishcloths, aprons and yells of "OUT OUT!" would ruin his midday snooze.</p>
<p>He did however become a major attraction on the guest farm called 'Haven' and many an overseas guest raved about having had breakfast with Wally a wild animal! .....with photographs to back up their outlandish claims.</p>
<p>I was only one of many locals who did exactly that. Wally still has a warm spot in my heart.</p>
<p>He eventually had a small cross on the hillside giving him his final resting place 'in the wild'.</p>
<p>https://i.postimg.cc/QCB9w08g/grave-1.png</p>
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<p>Rest in Peace Wally.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>https://i.postimg.cc/RhnhXhdX/signature-1.gif</p>
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@lizelle · (edited)
What a heartwarming story @justjoy, Wally was quite a character, thanks for sharing!
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@justjoy ·
I love life in the bush and have spent many holidays far and wide "out there". I have utmost respect for  wild animals  and obey all the game park rules seeing many of them are for our own safety.
      BUT it is a joy beyond measure when circumstances allow one to enjoy  a wild animal in a 'tame' setting and even interacting with it. Wally was such an animal and opened my eyes to how similar he was to a big dog in temperament and longing to be with people.
Thanks for the comment.
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@justjoy ·
I have been on the Steemit platform for  3 months and am ignorant about who you are and what you do. Please could you explain to me what a community witness is and what voting for you means to me and to yourselves.
I am eager to contribute to the value of Steemit and would appreciate any help you can give me.
Thank you for dropping by.
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@lordnigel ·
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Cool animals - They look like bumper cars when they run along hehe
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@justjoy ·
Hehe that is an appealing comparison. They certainly are that bulky and stop for nothing!
Thanks for the comment.
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@criptocuba ·
Hey, great job. Greetings from Cuba

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@justjoy ·
Cuba.........wow a world away and a lifestyle away from South Africa. Thank you so much for your comment.
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@criptocuba ·
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@carlgnash ·
Great story, that would definitely be a surprise to find on a couch if you didn't know about Wally!  I have to point out the "Image source" links under the images just link back to this blog post - are these your images?  Cheers
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@justjoy ·
Now I am confused. I was taught by the person who introduced me to Steemit how to acknowledge the use of a photograph off the Internet . I have been using this Image Source believing that I was fulfilling all the requirements. I do not know what it means when you say that the images just link back to this blog post. It obviously implies that they are my photographs, which they are not.
I appreciate your comment and would further appreciate an explanation on how I should be acknowledging pictures 'borrowed' off the Internet.
Thank you for dropping by.
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@carlgnash · (edited)
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sure, happy to explain.  So if you click on the "image source" link that you have provided below each image, the hyperlink just leads you back to your blog post.  You haven't actually linked a source.  Not sure if you are using markdown or html to do this - here is the correct way to do it using markdown.
```[Image Source](URL)```
You have to replace the letters ```URL``` in the above bit of markdown with the actual URL (web address) of your image source, so that when you click on the words "Image Source", the hyperlink actually takes you to the website where you found the image.  

I will show you an example of this in practice - click on the words "Image Source" below the image I have pasted below, and you will see that the link actually takes you to the source of the image (Pixabay in this case):
![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPrVFrdyeceVBm1mZaHA4t2yMa6k8ckyN8QExdxnyf5Nx/image.png)
[Image Source](https://pixabay.com/en/ibis-eudocimus-ruber-scarlet-ibis-3809147/)

Here is what the markdown looks like for the above image source link, with the URL pasted in:
```[Image Source](https://pixabay.com/en/ibis-eudocimus-ruber-scarlet-ibis-3809147/)```

As far as "borrowing" images from the internet, this is really only okay if the images are free use in the first place.  So for instance if you found these images on pixabay or wiki commons or some other free use place, it is fine to use them and best practice to provide the source link to the original source as I described above.

On the other hand, if you are just finding random images online and using them (and the images are *not* from a free use source), then it *is not* okay to use the images *even if* you provide a source link.  Most images found online, unless specifically listed as free use / CC0, can be assumed to be the copyrighted content of the original photographer and it is not okay to use them without permission even if you provide a source.  I hope this helps - feel free to ask any clarifying questions if you need to.

Cheers - Carl
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