Afraid of snakes ???

Okay everybody can relax.
Forget the snakes and spiders and sharks and killer jellyfish and the drop bears, it's now officially safe to live here.

I heard on QI last night that the most dangerous animal that has caused by far the most fatalities and injuries in Australia ain't what you're thinking.

It's the horse!
 
You must have a lot of pretty rank broncs or some really stupid riders there to out do all the varieties of poisonous snakes and spiders. LOL
 

Left my Tanaka brushcutter outside the garage on the grass for a while last Friday. When I went to pick it up, a black snake wriggled out from beneath it and bared his teeth at me.


Yep !.... knocked his head off with a hoe, works every time !
 
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Our black snakes ( also called rat snakes ) are constrictors. Non venomous and very mild mannered. They get up to 8 feet long and are excellent climbers. We see them more often than any other kind of snake. We had a young one in the house last spring.
 
rkunsaw said:
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Our black snakes ( also called rat snakes ) are constrictors. Non venomous and very mild mannered. They get up to 8 feet long and are excellent climbers. We see them more often than any other kind of snake. We had a young one in the house last spring.
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I've never seen one in the wild, RK, but have always heard you never kill one. They're way too important to the ecology.

Just me, but if I had to list 1,000 things I'm afraid of in Australia, a horse wouldn't be on the list. I'm having a really hard time with that one, no matter what the report says.
 
This is ours, lookin' sleek and shiny. They coil up tight in compost heaps and warm spots and imitate cow pats in paddocks. You don't realise it isn't one until the damned thing takes off at speed.

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Diwundrin said:
This is ours, lookin' sleek and shiny. They coil up tight in compost heaps and warm spots and imitate cow pats in paddocks. You don't realise it isn't one until the damned thing takes off at speed.

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Now, this critter would be on my list of being scared to death of! Gawd, he's vicious looking!
 
Nah, not particularly Katy, they're pussycats. They take off usually when disturbed, it's the Brown ones who get angsty if you surprise them.
Blacks seldom bite anyone and then only when provoked. But caution over valour just the same.
 
Diwundrin said:
Nah, not particularly Katy, they're pussycats. They take off usually when disturbed, it's the Brown ones who get angsty if you surprise them.
Blacks seldom bite anyone and then only when provoked. But caution over valour just the same.
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You crack me up, Di! They're pussycats? Oh yeah, he looks every bit as sweet as any kitty I've ever seen. You have seriously adjusted to what you have to deal with so well. Good that you have, what choice is there? I admire your spunk, m' lady.

I was telling g'son about the brown snake being the most dangerous you have there. He insists it's the Taipan...said he read it in the write-up they post under all the snakes at the Serpentarium we visit on vacation. :dunno:
 
Yes Taiipans trump Browns but we only have Browns around here, Taipans are in North Queensland. They're tropical and stay up there but the damned Brown ones are all the way along the East Coast.
 
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