not a happy chap

[nemesis_adrasteia]

i found this little bluey today when i was moving an old fence that had fallen down, hes only a baby one theres a pretty big one getting around maybe 200mm long,

anyone else got some good wild life around their house? ive seen koalas around here too

[minux]

200cm long? Thats hugggggeeee

Only last year i caught a big adult male bluey in our front garden...in suburbia. Bloody fiesty bugger he was, dropped him off at our friends who do work for Fisheries and wildlife, biggest they had seen for a while. They guess he had wondered through as the new ring road is being constructed right behind that house. They sound and look scarier than they actually are.

[faroogoo]

Haha it aint happy,found one in my yard a while back around the 30cm mark,just grab em behind the front legs you'l be rite.

I took it down to the local creek/wetland area & let him go,would've let it stay but the dogs probably would've killed it.

[danja]

200cm long? Thats hugggggeeee

Only last year i caught a big adult male bluey in our front garden...in suburbia. Bloody fiesty bugger he was, dropped him off at our friends who do work for Fisheries and wildlife, biggest they had seen for a while. They guess he had wondered through as the new ring road is being constructed right behind that house. They sound and look scarier than they actually are.

I think he might mean 20cm 200cm = 2m... and then that's not a blue tongue, thats a dragon.

We have a few out the back, they spend most of their time in a recess under the swimming pool. Usually pretty docile, they slither around the place when they think no one is looking, find something to eat/shag, then slither back

[cracker]

yeah his pretty pissed off, they can be very very agresive little buggers, not that hed be able to do any damage.
Iv been keeping them for years, and breed 2 litters, he would be about 12-18 months old, probley would have been born around march last year.
also im guessing he is what they called a "common" blue tongue
im so sure about 2m long blue tongue though... it would probley eat your dog/cat

[greenfoam]

We have blue tongues, 4 different snakes, Koalas are resident here in the yard, so are Kangaroos and 2 different kinds of possums. Kookaburras, Magpies, couple Owls, few bats, 4 or 5 different parrots, willy wagtails, blue wrens, the odd echidna cruises past. That's about it NO WOMBATS

[nemesis_adrasteia]

200cm long? Thats hugggggeeee

Only last year i caught a big adult male bluey in our front garden...in suburbia. Bloody fiesty bugger he was, dropped him off at our friends who do work for Fisheries and wildlife, biggest they had seen for a while. They guess he had wondered through as the new ring road is being constructed right behind that house. They sound and look scarier than they actually are.

wow my bad 200 mm

[Tsunamix]

I thought blue tongue bites are bad - from an infection standpoint ?

[nemesis_adrasteia]

We have blue tongues, 4 different snakes, Koalas are resident here in the yard, so are Kangaroos and 2 different kinds of possums. Kookaburras, Magpies, couple Owls, few bats, 4 or 5 different parrots, willy wagtails, blue wrens, the odd echidna cruises past. That's about it NO WOMBATS

yeah we get the bats really tiny ones about the size of those really big moths, yellow tailed cockys they make a mess, had a tawny frogmouth here once we had an echina here about 5-6 years ago and im not sure but it might have been the same one probably 2 years ago i dunno if theyre wanderers or if they hang around the same area, theres kangaroos further down the road, are willy wagtails those tiny little birds with the longtails?

[nemesis_adrasteia]

I thought blue tongue bites are bad - from an infection standpoint ?

i cant see why it would be any worse than any other animal, tho i could be wrong

[nemesis_adrasteia]

yeah his pretty pissed off, they can be very very agresive little buggers, not that hed be able to do any damage.
Iv been keeping them for years, and breed 2 litters, he would be about 12-18 months old, probley would have been born around march last year.
also im guessing he is what they called a "common" blue tongue
im so sure about 2m long blue tongue though... it would probley eat your dog/cat

yeah excelent spelling mistake by me, i remember probably 10-11 years ago at our old house there was this old blue tounge hanging round it had the worst luck one day dad was mowing the lawn and took off about 2/3rds of his tail and then about a month later dad was out using the whippersnipper and took off one of his back legs accidently of course and he only had one eye from when the cat had a go at him, he was one tough old bugger, bit me on the hand one day hurts a bit and he wasnt keen to let go

[red truck]

I thought blue tongue bites are bad - from an infection standpoint ?

There is some truth in that old wives tale.
I was watching a doco on Fox, they said it has only recently been discovered that they are venemous. There are 2 small poison glands at the back of the jaw.
The buggers bite hard too. My 2 Jack russells are always trying to kill them in my yard. If I hear them barking, I run straight out in the yard and can usually save the Bluey from certain death.
Possums drive the dogs nuts at night, and the dogs drive me nuts.

[greenfoam]

You have to be carefull mowing :S it's a easy way to depopulate the lizards. I try to do a few flybys in the shorter areas of grass to scare them out first. Once after I mowed I was walking around and went to pull some weeds out from around a plant gaurd/wire and damm near grabbed a huge tiger snake :P nearly had a heart attack then I poked him with a stick but he didn't move. Turned out he got mowed and the other unseen half of him was a bit beat up. I've a picture of some blue tongues hanging off my dads fingers somewhere:P

[VjamesY]

I have a blue tongue that hangs around me and my neighbors houses, hes been lurking our backyards for years, i reckon hes awsome haha!
but my stupid dog attacks him now, every time i see him, i catch him, and chuck him over neighbors fence, otherwise my dog would rip him to shreds

One of the disadvantages of having a dog (or pet), everything is either attacked or scared away, lizards, frogs and especially birds.

In our back yard we have had green tree frogs, normal brown frogs, blue tongues, thousands of those small skink lizards, and also i used to have these rainbow lorikeets i would feed every morning an apple, they would come back every day. but that was ruined the day i got my dog, i kinda miss all that wind life.

I'm not sure if this counts, but i've also got 4 baby Australian bass in my fishtank, they are sweet, i feed them worms and insects. They are very agressive haha and also a very intelligent fish i must say.

[greenfoam]

Yeah cats and dogs are a no no where I live. None of the neighbours have them really apart from a couple of small dogs, defiantly no cats. it's just not the done thing, someone would knock them off if one did arrive. I have a pet rabbit that roams the house but he never goes outside. Rabbits are good pets , about the same intelligence as a cat I rekcon don't cause anyone or anything any trouble (alot more affectionate than cats) and much cheaper to feed

[nemesis_adrasteia]

haha funny story about snakes back at our old house we had this old bath tub way down the back upside down sitting there for years dad and i went down there to clean up one day i was only a kid so i was muking around dropping shit in the plug hole i was looking down there and saw something so i got a stick and i was poking i whatever was inside had a weird feel to it so i told dad so he goes over to the bath tub and turns it over(lucky for him back towards himself) and theres this HUGE red bellied black snake coiled up under there, needless to say it was rather pissed off after me chucking rocks at it and poking it with a stick it sorta went to chase dad but by this time dad got the shovel as it came towards him he chopped its head off, it was a huge snake it had a litter of snakes with it most of them got away im not sure how big it was almost as tall as the fence i think i remember dad was holding it where he chopped it off at choulder hieght and its tail was dragging on the ground and it was still wiggling around and the head was snapping every 10 seconds or so... good times

[greenfoam]

eh that's no good red belled black snakes are super passive and very rare don't go killing anymore of those. They aren't a very dangerous snake as far as snakes go (wont kill you)

[nemesis_adrasteia]

yeah im not a fan of killing native wild life but that one was after dad lucky he had the shovel close, dad killed another one here a couple of years ago even tho i told him to ring a snake keeper hes paraniod.... and irish

[VjamesY]

once when i was fishing with my dad about 3 years ago, we were walking in and out of this long dry grass, and in this short grass to my right, what i thought was a hose/pipe, and was going to pick up, was a huge red belly, my addrenaline was through the roof, but i just stood still, it stopped, turned its head, looked at me for ages, (about now i was expecting it to pounce at me and rip my leg to shreds), and turned back, and kept going, he just went about his business again. Quiet a harmless and relaxed animal. he just knew i wasnt a threat.

till that point i thought snakes were, a ruthless, agressive and dangerous animal. just shows they really arn't that bad if not provoked.

[cracker]

There is some truth in that old wives tale.
I was watching a doco on Fox, they said it has only recently been discovered that they are venemous. There are 2 small poison glands at the back of the jaw.
The buggers bite hard too. My 2 Jack russells are always trying to kill them in my yard. If I hear them barking, I run straight out in the yard and can usually save the Bluey from certain death.
Possums drive the dogs nuts at night, and the dogs drive me nuts.

thats intresting, iv been bitten loads of times, when they are young eg just born till about 2-3 months they are insane angrey and bite the shit out of everything, also if u catch them off guard they will sometimes bite, but mine are genrally very placid. but never had any infection or anything just hurts because they hate to let go...bastards...

[Hunter SS]

we get them around here all the time. We had one in the house twice so far.... big bastage too!! have no idea how it got in either!!

[nemesis_adrasteia]

cant say ive ever had one IN the house had a large bluey just under the window one day just hanging around on the warm concrete