What's the most dangerous/scariest animal that you have found in your house/apartment?
You can get a fine of over $10k for harming one too.
Not uncommon to find half your garden bed dragged across the road by one.
I live in the bush, plenty of scrub Turkey about. Want to know a secret to keep em out of the garden? Buy a couple of mirrors. They're super territorial and will fight their own reflection. They tend to avoid the area once they knows an invincible Turkey lives there
So I stuck some cheap adhesive mirrors to a bit of old cement sheeting just before, and the bastard is tocking away at it already! This makes my day.
Not gonna lie it's kind of funny to watch 😀
Nothing is funnier than watching 2 male turkeys fight for dominance. I’ve never seen anything less likely to fly but somehow they do.
You legend! I'm gonna try this!
LOL! Are they only violent when provoked or do they just arrive and mess around?
They just rock up and don't give a damn about humans. Really, they're about as dangerous as a chicken.
They're dumb as rocks.
Not the most dangerous, but finding a wallaby in my kitchen in the middle of the night scared the crap out of me.
I got called to rescue a trapped "baby roo" It was trapped. But it was a full strength adult Wallaby.
He got me good when I grabbed him. Full force kick to the ribs 😄
I signed up for wildlife rescue, but then had kids and didn't have time for animals.
The wildlife rescue guy was telling us a story about a woman who put a kangaroo that was hit by a car in her back seat. Apparently didn't have much of a (car) interior left once the roo came to.
That can certainly get rather up set when not restrained.
I've transported many injured bubs and most were fine being covered up in a larger tired off pouch bag and blankets.
Baby Eastern Brown Snake. Son caught it and we took it to Australian Zoo.
Fucken eastern browns mate. Sick of dealing with em.
Not fatal in this country but I didn't expect to see a scorpion in my mates living room (central QLD).
Used to work in far north QLD and had a coastal taipan visit once, lunged and barely missed a waitress.
In my house, living in rural NSW the most dangerous thing that's ever entered was a mosquito. Otherwise only really had huntsman, moths, neighbor's cat etc, Couple brown snakes, funnel webs and redbacks in the yard/shed. A few months ago I encountered my first house centipede which looked pretty alarming until I googled it (harmless).
I think we all want to know more about the story of the waitress you had in your appartments.
Visited the restaurant at work*
The scorpion I found in my bed wasn't too scary because I apparently had squashed it by rolling on it or something
Feral pig and her new babies in the laundry.
Shouldn’t refer to your missus like that in this day and age mate.
(jk ;-) )
You're such an arsehole! I was drinking my tea, and I snort-laughed when I read your comment. Now there's tea in my sinus cavities and all over my desk. I place the blame solely on you.
Lived in the Daintree Rainforest for 9 years. It wasn't quite inside, but does a giant assed cassowary on the verandah count?
Just a blue collar dinosaur from FNQ, that's had a bit too much Bundy Rum and got a bit fightey
Sydney funnel web and a small baby eastern brown
Our cat. Her previous owner would always give in to giving her food whenever she attacked people's feet, so now she attacks everyone's feet. She's actually quite nice when it's not mealtime. We're trying to break her out of doing that but the process is not going well.
There's a possum living on our property who goes out and performs riverdance on the porch some nights and when she's focused on him, anything that distracts her also kinda gets some attitude from her.
...performs riverdance on the porch...
Mine starts the night doing parkour involving my water tanks, a couple of trees, my (metal tile) roof, my bin, etc. The night kicks on with either street racing on my roof or attending a solo rave. When it's just about time to go home, they pick a fight with the bouncer right in front of my bedroom window.
Every. Single. Night. For. Years.
Every time I'm outside at night and he's out there just chowing down on whatever fruit/veg/seeds the birds have left, I tell him that he's lucky he's cute and that I enjoy seeing him out there. Naturally he's completely unperturbed by me since he knows deep down that I'm a softie who wouldn't be able to live with myself if I did anything to mildly inconvenience him.
For the last couple of years....
3 x adult eastern browns, 1 x baby eastern brown and 1 x red belly black. Our dog has nailed a couple of them
The kangaroos I hired as security are doing fuck all to stop them. They just hang in the paddock out the back and eat
My wife
Thank you, was looking for that comment!
A snake
A chimney full of bees
My wife after I spilled tomato sauce on our new ottomans.
FNQ and lived in a house in remnant rainforest when I first came up here with my then 12yo daughter who LOVED the critters
The house was fully screened and I got divebombed by a Hercules moth which was freaky but not too bad
Brown tree snake
Big arse centipede 30cm
Antechinus -
daughter dancing with delight on the above not so much the below
MASSIVE huntsman that skittered in the driver's window of my car one night. Dinner plate sized
Cockroaches about 6cm long that fly in
Urgh a small spider sprinting across the floor is bad enough... I could not imagine what a huge huntsman would be like
Huntsmans are pretty docile and good for insect control. I can understand why anyone with a fear of spiders in general couldn't handle them though. They do look pretty menacing.
I had a colony of them in a house in Canberra a while back. Each had names and I mostly ignored them just like they ignored me.
Charlie was the big daddy of the bunch.
Charlie was an impressive specimen.
LOL daughter named the one in the meter box that used to freak out the meter readers but I couldnt- although I never saw it (Thank god) meter man said it was BIG
Huntsies are big hairy and tickly.
The one that came in the window was fairly agitated, he'd either been crawling around the outside of the car while I was doing between 60-100 kmph or dropped from a reasonable height onto the car as we drove under the trees. We both kept it together over the longest four km in my life and drove into the carport under the lights and jumped out of the car and left the doors open. It did crawl out and hung around for a few days.
I keep a clear plastic bowl and manilla folder handy at all times. Excellent pider trapping and relocation equipment.
Hey I am not fond of spideys due to childhood freak outs lol I once abandoned a car in the middle of the city when a reasonably sized huntsie crawled out of the vent onto the dashboard.
Oddly enough living up here I have become somewhat used to them.
But that sucker that came in the window Aaargh!
Uncle bad touch.
Magpie
Eastern brown.
In the house - a baby tiger snake that the cat brought in. We had a crawling baby at the time so really glad my partner spotted it going behind the door.
In the yard - a 1.5 m tiger snake near the back door.
We live 11km from Melbourne’s CBD.
My kids
Our 4-month-old Husky puppy.
Owned 2. Can confirm.
A European wasp.
Funnel Web spider when I lived in Sydney a long time ago or an eastern brown snake in my garage when I lived on a rural property in SE Queensland.
Now, living in North Queensland it's a toss up between one particularly deviant cat and an adolescent scrub python.
Sapien in estrus
Inside? Redback Spider.
In the yard? Red-bellied Black Snake is the only one I’ve 100% positivity IDed. Had claims of a young Eastern Brown but it could have been a Golden-crowned or similar.
Brown snake checking out my barbie
Outside, a couple of baby eastern brown snakes, inside, redback spider (any spider really as I have an irrational fear of them, but the redback is the only one I've had that has the potential to ruin your day).
A human
My cat!
Red bellied black snake (we have at least one living in our dam) and funnel web spiders (generally inside logs, it’s always a fun surprise when you’re splitting firewood).
But realistically, I’ve had stray dogs on the place a couple of times, and they’re a lot nastier than any of the native wildlife.
Well, my dog keeps leaving her toys around for me to trip over - I broke my arm the last time that happened. Otherwise, probably...hmmm....the occasional stray honeybee. This country isn't really that scary most of the time.
Not quite inside the house but I recently heard my birds going crazy and came out to find a six foot eastern brown climbing the screen door trying to get at the birds. Beautiful snake but definitely not welcome inside.
Red bellied black snake - in inner city Melbourne
Tiger snake in the little shed attached to my house. It disappeared just after the snake catcher arrived so it couldn't be caught.
Years ago now, in KI, asked my mum about the brown stick in front of her feet while she was at the kitchen sink. It was a brown snake which a neighbour caught and killed. I love animals so I was horrified. In Brissie years ago there was a supposed redback plague. I found one making its home in my hallway close to the floor.
We had an Funnel Web spider in the shed recently. My kid found it and was really sensible about staying away from it.
When I lived in Sydney, my garage had a store room off to one side. Walked in there one day to discover a redback nest with thousands of them. There were hundreds of adult females and thousands of babies.
Red back spiders
Current House : Australian Brown Snake (Back Door),
Years ago: Funnel Web Spider (Pool Area)
Drop bear. Came into the laundry and cornered itself.
Mosquito. Kills more people than anything else in the world
Magpie in my bedroom. Had to remove the screen and direct it (ie defend myself) with a leaf rake.
A Tiger snake about 4 feet in length.
I used to live in a semi rural grassland area near farmland used for cropping. Down the street was an open water course /creek. We had livestock including cows, a horse and chickens. One morning it was obvious a snake had wiped out over 20 laying hens. I had the job to clean up the mess and catch the snake which I spotted vanishing under a pile of junk next to the rainwater tanks.
South Australia, lots of dangerous fauna here, but the most dangerous animal in my house is my wife, before she's had her morning coffee.
Our elderly cat. She bit my husband & put him in hospital with sepsis for a month. It was the scariest time of our lives.
An opossum. Poor thing was more scared of me then I was of it, after i got over the initial shock.
Heaps of huntsmans and redbacks etc
Common brown snakes a few times.
The most interesting although technically not dangerous or scary was an echidna in the kitchen. Took hours to get the little bastard out.
A cranky and very defensive 1.2M Taipan released into scrub a few klm away. No harm done.
A Cassowary that wanted a feed after Cyclone Winifred knocked all wild food sources out locally. Fed that family with a box of scattered fruit in a slightly different spot every day for months to work them out of a residential area through a cane paddock and eventually into rainforest over time then slowly cutting it back to 0 after about 9 months. Magnificent creatures.
Feral cat with old burns scars to the entire face and all paws with half a tail (probably a cane fire) that decided the neighbours shed wasn’t the best place to raise her kittens and came trotting through the kitchen, kitten in mouth while i was cooking dinner. Headed for my bedroom. Woke up next day and there was 6. Re-homed them all desexed over a period of months. The mother was psychotic but over eventually calmed down never left and lived her days out with us. Of the above, i’d say she was more dangerous of the 3.
I have a pet children’s python and a domestic medium hair cat. People are often horrified to hear about the snake but always want pics of the cat. I tell them I’m far more afraid of my cat than my snake.
She’s adorable but if she bites me it gets infected, swells up, hurts for a week and then I end up with a scar. The snake bites me (far less frequently and always because I’ve done something stupid) and by the next day you won’t even know.
Well i grew up in basically a tin shed, on the ground, in the Outback. So, it wasn't very unusual to have brown snakes inside. Redbacks all over the place too. Never bothered me much. Knew no different suppose. Live in the bush? You live with what is out there.
It's a toss up between sitting on the toilet and turning to see a massive huntsman that just appeared a few inches from my face.......and walking out the front door to see a water buffalo within spitting distance, staring at me.
I rent and every six months I find a large property inspector.
Dugite in the toilet when I was 4. I kid you not my mum ran outside and got the postie and said ( and I quote ) " postie , postie how do you feel about killing snakes ?".
There are also lots of Redbacks where I'm currently staying
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My ex wife
Snakes. You knew when they were around there would be no rodents and the frogs would disappear from the ponds
My ex after I had kicked her out.
Red belly and a brown over the years. Weirdest was a long neck turtle, stunk as well
Brown snake. There was a mouse plague (only wish one on your worst enemy) and the snake was in the house on the hunt for mice. I do not believe in killing native animals of any type but I did trap and dispatch this one as I did not want it living in the house.
Forgot the species but a black snake dead right in the patio just chilling under the shade
Police
The Missus
My ex wife
A dumb arse bush turkey