Blood for the Baron!

i had a nasty run in with a kitten once it nearly tore my arm off, christ i was scared.

Stick your thumb up its arse, that'll REALLY piss it off.

A mate and I were walking thru his back horse paddock into town one afternoon when a Brown snake stood up in front of us. I'm 6 foot 3, he's 6 foot 5. This thing was looking at us in the face. I didn't even have time to sh*t myself. First year in Aussie and that happens. My mate starts back peddling and lifting his legs up and down as the snake drops to the ground. I could have picked my mate up he was jumping that high. The snake then bounds off over the tall grass and we are left there cleaning our undies and looking at the trail in the grass he's left behind. We figure the snake had to be 2 metres long, a BIG f*cker for a Eastern Brown.

That was just the first encounter. I also straddled a red bellied Black snake once, a lovely docile, yet nasty creature. I didn't know till I turned around and wondered why my mates were white faced and not following me. Then they pointed towards the snake and I too went white.

Ah, happy days. Curse this laid back city living. BTW Eddie, what about the vicious Foxes over there? We have Dingoes to keep the Foxes in check here.

a woman in a town near me had a fox get in through her cat-flap twice in one night. second time, the cat chased it off.

Do you have to check the toilets out for spiders before you & can sit down on 'em too, Chop?

Yeah. With Outback dunnies its mandatory. Also have to kick logs over before you pick em up and shake your boots before you put them on, if you leave em outside. Red backs like cosy warm spots.

Actually snakes like lying under logs in Winter too. Just lucky they are cold blooded and docile in Winter. So checking under firewood and logs is a must. I had a Redback run over my hand a couple of weeks ago getting something from the garden shed.

Our Foxes are too scared to come into houses, of course they aren't protected here and are fair game.