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Posted by Timbo in Oz (A) on May 17, 2007 at 01:14:19

In Reply to: The most unusual pet you ever had? posted by Eldragon on May 16, 2007 at 08:52:00:

Aussie common python.

they tend to discourage the possums from getting in the roof, and birds.

Sufficient possums and birds are dumb enough to not smell the pythons metre / establish nests and so keep the snake fed!

We had goats for years - for milk, lambs, baby kangaroos, baby quolls (look 'em up) frill-neck lizards.

One family near us kept goannas, look them up.

And Dad kept ferrets, so we could have bunnies to eat. We lived right near a good bit of bush and farms!

Dad brought home a whole litter of feral piglets once, but we ate them! ;-)! Drench them for live fluke and shit, AND feed them up! Roast fat lil' piglets - the ONLY kinda roast pork I like!

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• "....goannas, look them up" Big ones, aren't they? Nice looking, though. )MT( - J. S. Bach 10:20:54 05/17/07 (2)
  In Reply to: we had a 'carpet snake' in the ceiling of the home I grew up in. posted by Timbo in Oz on May 17, 2007 at 01:14:19:

  
  Dave
  Later Gator,
  Crank up your talking machine, grab a jar of your favorite "kick-back", sit down, relax, and let the good times roll.

  
  
  

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  • yes thay are monitor lizards like the Nile Monitor and Komodo Dragon, several Aussie species. IIRC - Timbo in Oz 23:20:25 05/17/07 (1)
    In Reply to: "....goannas, look them up" Big ones, aren't they? Nice looking, though. )MT( posted by J. S. Bach on May 17, 2007 at 10:20:54:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goanna.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perentie.

    Perenties are RARE everywhere but did well after the fires in 2003.
    Brief glimpses.

    The Sand Goanna is very common.

    they ARE venomous, but VERY shy of humans, only a very few - near garbage dumps - get cocky!

    The local koories - the Nghunawahl took Perenti as a risk-target for food but worth it - a mainland view. Most lizards ARE good eating if cooked on a fire, I can assure you. As are lots of things in mangrove swamps!!! Even uncooked!

    
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    And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!

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    • Try this art! - Timbo in Oz 23:23:26 05/17/07 (0)
      In Reply to: yes thay are monitor lizards like the Nile Monitor and Komodo Dragon, several Aussie species. IIRC posted by Timbo in Oz on May 17, 2007 at 23:20:25:

      
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      Timbo in Oz
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      And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!

      'Still not saluting.'

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• I always wanted to ask you Aussie's about snakes... - Eldragon 08:02:32 05/17/07 (1)
  In Reply to: we had a 'carpet snake' in the ceiling of the home I grew up in. posted by Timbo in Oz on May 17, 2007 at 01:14:19:

  

  How often do you encounter the deadly ones? I understand you guys have some of the deadliest snakes in the world. What is the incidents of bites?
  We have some of the largest Eastern diamondbacks here, but I never saw one except run over on the road. But I killed one 4 foot Water mocassin last year. He was about to attack my kittens.

  
  
  
  

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  • snakes alive - dave c 15:41:48 05/18/07 (0)
    In Reply to: I always wanted to ask you Aussie's about snakes... posted by Eldragon on May 17, 2007 at 08:02:32:

    I am sure you will get more educated answers about our snaked than mine, but basically although we do in fact have very poisonous snakes, only a few people a year actually die from their bites.
    Snakes are very shy, and, unless you rush upon them they will just about always slide away to avoid you.
    That said, you really wouldn't want to tread on one's tail when you were barefoot.
    The year before last a 2.4 metre python was spotted on a shopping trip through the main shopping mall right in the middle of Brisbane... probably came via the sewers although opinions vary.
    We get reasonable size lizards here along the river... maybe best part of a metre I have seen and of course our famous river sharks.
    A much bigger problem is the property shark which has been known to swallow entire houses and regurgitate blocks of apartments.
    
    
    

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