Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[K Spot]

@Teila I've PM'd you regarding the sale

 

[Fancychooklady]

That is good to know Felix. Dingoes, no never had a fear of them, we do have them out here but they generally never attack people. They have had attacks on Frazer island and Stradbroke island by dingoes but that is because people feed them and they come in looking for food.
You'd be more likely to be attacked by a koala or a kangaroo in the wild if you cornered one and even that is not that likely.

Truth is there are many dangers out there. Once when we crossing the nullarbor a flipping camel tried to kill my husband . You can only imagine trying to explain that to the life insurance company.

 

[Teila]

Fancy you can't leave it at that .. we need details on the homicidal camel!

We had a run in on the Nullabor with what could easily have been a killer wombat! We were travelling from WA to SA with a trailer behind us, I was driving. Anyways, it was dark and Mr Wombat was parked right in the middle of my lane. Remembering stories of just how much damage a wombat can do to your car and even more importantly, not wanting to hit him, I swerved. Forgot I had a trailer on the back! That was a fun few seconds trying to get the trailer back under control but all ended well and Mr Wombat was last seen waddling away

 

[Teila]

Talking about snakes ... just found this one on the Craglist Forum [https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/436863/oh-craigslist-you-amuse-me-so/6370#post_14445879]


Here my dilemma and why i need a snake charmer please read it all so you can understand it to the fullest

Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis) can be dangerous Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes. Here's why.

my wife and myself in Burgaw nc, had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze.

It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants. When it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa.

She let out a very loud scream.

ME the husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told me there was a snake under the sofa.

i got down on the floor on my hands and knees to look for it. About that time our family dog came and cold-nosed me on the behind. i thought the snake had bitten me, so i screamed and fell over on the floor.

my wife thought i had had a heart attack, so she covered me up, told me to lie still and called an ambulance.

The attendants rushed in, would not listen to my protests, loaded me on the stretcher, and started carrying me out.

About that time, the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when i broke my leg and why i`m still in the hospital.

my wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor who volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch.. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief.

But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa.

The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her.

The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.

The noise woke my wife from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed that the snake had bitten him. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.

By now, the police had arrived.
Breathe here...

They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when my wife tried to explain how it all happened over a little garden snake!

The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.

Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the sofa and one of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over, the lamp on it shattered and, as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes.

The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who, startled, jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.

Meanwhile, neighbors saw the burning drapes and called in the fire department. The firemen had started raising the fire ladder when they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires, put out the power, and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area (but they did get the our house fire out).

Time passed! myself and neighbor were discharged from the hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car and all was right with their world.

A while later they we`re watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. my wife asked me if he thought they should bring in their plants for the night.

And that's when i shot her. if you catch the snake that will be your pay a new pet to take with ya

 

[satay]

Truth is there are many dangers out there. Once when we crossing the nullarbor a flipping camel tried to kill my husband . You can only imagine trying to explain that to the life insurance company.

OMg.. remind me to never cross the nullabour.

 

[K Spot]

Ha me too!

 

[birdman55]

so we just got some snow..grr..that will put a damper on building things tommarow...later

 

[K Spot]

Well these storms we are getting in SE Qld is very much putting a dampener on things here too.

 

[cwrite]

Talking about snakes ... just found this one on the Craglist Forum [https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/436863/oh-craigslist-you-amuse-me-so/6370#post_14445879]

OMG Teila - cried tears I laughed so much!

 

[Fancychooklady]

Fancy you can't leave it at that .. we need details on the homicidal camel! 

We had a run in on the Nullabor with what could easily have been a killer wombat!  We were travelling from WA to SA with a trailer behind us, I was driving.  Anyways, it was dark and Mr Wombat was parked right in the middle of my lane. Remembering stories of just how much damage a wombat can do to your car and even more importantly, not wanting to hit him, I swerved.  Forgot I had a trailer on the back!  That was a fun few seconds trying to get the trailer back under control but all ended well and Mr Wombat was last seen waddling away

Oh no this one was actually trying to kill him. Hubby wanted me to get in the photo and I said ' no , I'll take the pic.' I could see the look of contempt on the camels face but hubby had his back to him and was blissfully unaware of the impending danger. I turned and ran for the car with hubby and camel close behind.
We stayed with the local coppa at ceduna and his neighbor was employed to cull the feral camel population. He told us that if the camel had got on top of us it would have dropped it chest on us and crushed us. Apparently they have a huge breast plate that they use to kill dingo. Next day we saw a flock of emu, he said ' let's go get a pic with them ' I said ' nah '.