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ant wrote:
Dunno. Some are armour-plated, and their front looks like the back, sort of blunt at both ends. Sounds like the Stumpy Tail, ant (Trachydosaurus rugosus.) I din't know that scientific name tho' - Googled it. We've had a couple of Tiger snakes hanging 'round last summer, too. I really wanted to put some sort of rock creek bed-like pond thing in this year (I like that we have wild ducks coming daily and thought they'd love it) but people have been telling me it will attract the snakes. I don't mind that so much coz they're around anyway and I figure at least I'll know where they're more likely to be. I just worry our dogs will also be attracted to it and stumble upon one. L. |
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In article , "ant"
wrote: Dunno. Some are armour-plated, and their front looks like the back, sort of blunt at both ends. Some others are armour plated, but thinner and longer and pointier, with claws. Shinglebacks? -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled." Kerry Cue |
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"ant" wrote in message
Apparently the chihuahuas killed a lizard last week. One had been obsessed with lizards for years, spending hours motionless gazing fixedly at the rock wall. I guess he finally got one. My brother found the two of them eating it. I can understand that, the tails are often full of what looks like fat. |
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"Linda H" wrote in message
We've had a couple of Tiger snakes hanging 'round last summer, too. I really wanted to put some sort of rock creek bed-like pond thing in this year (I like that we have wild ducks coming daily and thought they'd love it) but people have been telling me it will attract the snakes. I don't mind that so much coz they're around anyway and I figure at least I'll know where they're more likely to be. I just worry our dogs will also be attracted to it and stumble upon one. One of our dogs was bitten by a Brown in the final days of Autumn. $950 later he came home and was so sick that he just lay on the lounge for 2 weeks and wouldn't even lift his head. Just followed us with his eyes. Now he is as fit as flea. The record for dog bites round here is 8 bites in 8 years for a dog. I didn't think they could take so many bites but I know the family and the dog belonged to to one of the offspring who they lost in a plane crash. They think of the dog as the last link to the lost offspring they keep dragging it off to the vet each time it gets bitten. |
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Well I'm afraid I spoil the Bluey's who live on my garden too....they
soon found they could go through the laundry into the garage and then into the house where they would wander at their own pace until they found me. One day I was sitting here at my computer and had this feeling someone was watching me, so I stopped typing and looked out the window....no one there!! Went back to what I was doing and the feeling returned....another peer out the window and still nothing. Then finally I decided to wheel my chair a little further and look in the other direction when all of a sudden the wheel came against something on the floor and when I looked down here were two bluey's at my feet looking up as if to say 'we are here Mum, where's our tucker?' Very smartly I fitted a screen door between the garage and dining room but for the next two weeks they used to sit there all day....the piles of dung as evidence. That year they cost me a new freezer as they wintered near the warm motor in the garage. These days they wait outside the doors but still hang around waiting for tidbits. Bronwyn ;-) Farm1 wrote: "HC" wrote in message ... The Blueys that live in my garden poked their heads out on Sunday for the first time this season. They were waiting for the obligatory bit of chuck steak. We used to have a bit of 4 inch aggie drainage pipe sticking out of the ground in a previous house. In this pipe lived the fattest and biggest Bluie I've ever seen. One day I caught my husband throwing snails down into the pipe. When I asked him what he was doing he looked a bit embarrassed and said he was feeding the Blue. He'd apparently been doing it for about a year. No wonder the Bluie was so big :-)) I haven't seen one yet. Still too cold. |
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"HC" wrote in message
... Well I'm afraid I spoil the Bluey's who live on my garden too....they soon found they could go through the laundry into the garage and then into the house where they would wander at their own pace until they found me. One day I was sitting here at my computer and had this feeling someone was watching me, so I stopped typing and looked out the window....no one there!! Went back to what I was doing and the feeling returned....another peer out the window and still nothing. Then finally I decided to wheel my chair a little further and look in the other direction when all of a sudden the wheel came against something on the floor and when I looked down here were two bluey's at my feet looking up as if to say 'we are here Mum, where's our tucker?' Very smartly I fitted a screen door between the garage and dining room but for the next two weeks they used to sit there all day....the piles of dung as evidence. That year they cost me a new freezer as they wintered near the warm motor in the garage. These days they wait outside the doors but still hang around waiting for tidbits. Bronwyn ;-) Now I can also empathise with that! In the house where my husband used to feed the big bloke, we had one which would come and lie in front of the slow combustion stove. Used to scare the crap out of me as I'd come into the kitchen and see something scuttle on the floor out of the corner of my eye. To this day I still have no idea where he hid when he wasn't basking by the fire. It always worried me that if a Bluie could find his way in then it would be so much easier for a snake to do so given that they only need a hole the size of a thumb. |
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HC wrote:
Then finally I decided to wheel my chair a little further and look in the other direction when all of a sudden the wheel came against something on the floor and when I looked down here were two bluey's at my feet looking up as if to say 'we are here Mum, where's our tucker?' They were hoping you would die so they could feed on you. I hope the snakes have come out of hibernation. It's about to get cold and very wet, and hopefully they'll die (and the lizards can feed on THEM). -- ant Don't try to email me; I'm borrowing the spammer du jour's addy |
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Farm1 wrote:
It always worried me that if a Bluie could find his way in then it would be so much easier for a snake to do so given that they only need a hole the size of a thumb. EXACTLY! -- ant Don't try to email me; I'm borrowing the spammer du jour's addy |
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HC wrote:
Then finally I decided to wheel my chair a little further and look in the other direction when all of a sudden the wheel came against something on the floor and when I looked down here were two bluey's at my feet looking up as if to say 'we are here Mum, where's our tucker?' Aw cute. I had no idea they could become so tame as to come looking for you. We have a couple of very big piles of cleared (fallen) old logs & underbrush that will need burning before it gets too warm. I'm a bit worried that they may have become homes for lizards and other wildlife, so does anybody know how I could try to flush them out before we set fire to these huge heaps? I certainly don't want to cook poor lil' lizards if they're in there (or even snakes actually.) |
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