No, it did not, they did draw the line at the bottles of beer someone gave us, they had been in the fridge so long that they had apparently begun to separate. He had the gall to point that out, I said and this is what stops you?peppermint schnapps, cooking wine, and onion wine no prob. but a few specs floating in some unopened beer is a big deal? lol

Havingfun, no, he didn't bounce out. He had been in the pool for some hours, we think, and he was exhausted and probably profoundly hypothermic. In the end I had to get in to the pool behind him and lift him out !

He sat in the sun in front of the house all day (causing some consternation in the cats, who sat in the window looking at him) and finally hopped away as the sun set.

ahhhh, poor little roo. glad he was ok in the end. it is all funny til it becomes serious. then you feel bad, but what can you do. you just can't worry every minute of every day, so have to make hay in the sun (I think?). then cry when it rains, you know?

You sure that's not a wobbely, looks a bit small for a roo, unless its a young un.

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DO NOT PUT YOUR KANGAROO IN YOUR SWIMMING POOL.

he will be sick and unavailabe to ride on to school, if you do.

Mormons. came home from shopping and hubby was making them coffee. well I suppose they had been invited in.

^^ That's hilarious ausbengal, hope he didn't bust out the biscuit tin as well.

This is a trapdoor trapped inside a hastily finished and upturned gin and tonic glass.

there are many classic tales regarding how important it is not to invite potentially unwanted guests into your home, perhaps you should give him a couple of those books to read.

A very clear footprint on the mat inside the front door when I got up one morning. No sign of entry, nothing taken, just a footprint on the mat.

not sure lizrds keep snakes away.

see youtube link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4-RAmguPAE

That's incredible footage geoffmatt, wow! That blue tongue didn't want his belly exposed, amazing how fast he could flip right way up each time.

And my husband is 6 foot tall!!

My car and i were once threatened by a black vulture, I did have a good laugh at that.

@7weed1 - that is a Coastal Carpet Python in all her glory! They are really common here on the Northern Rivers in NSW. We have our fair share of blacks and browns too - and I've been told the same rot about snakes not chasing you by one of those snake show men at the aggie shows, what a load of crap - they are aggressive and will chase you down if they feel threatened! I had an Eastern Brown charge me when we were building our house a few years ago - I was standing still just tacking on insulation on the outer wall and the bloody thing came out of the scrub straight at me flat out...if it wasn't for my husband throwing a brick at it and cracking it on the head I would have been bitten. Give me a carpet snake any day! Even the green tree snake that decided that under the pillow on my bed was a good place to nap a few weeks ago is more preferable!

I recently had a scary experience. It is obviously one of those winters, going crazy trying to keep the mice out. Any way, moved chef mousse out, new one moved in. Caught him the other night, hubby filled a piece of meat from spaghetti on stove, I go in and chef is trying to get it down the burner! He was so determined, he kept coming up to try again while i was there! Mice is one thing, not wanted, but dealable, but carniverous mice? Now we are entering a new territory!

Better stop feeding the cat @havingfun & make her catch the mice ;))

Well, there are 3 actually and they do, sometimes, but we are the ones that try to stop them. I know too mushy for our own good. Going to get a couple of the plug ins. hubby has to get more cheezwhiz for the traps. No they don't eat the cheez whiz. we gave them peanut butter and they turned up their noses. Hubby got more traps, put cheez whiz in 1/2, cause everyone eats cheez whiz! put pb in the other 1/2, the pb traps now got crowded!

Here's an image of the possum that lives under our house, taken with infra red surveillance camera as he's leaving for the night. Daytime he grunts and growls and snorts under the floorboards startling visitors

keeps away peepers! Actually you guys have such cute possums, much cuter than ours.

@havingfun, try chocolate in your traps. We had a mouse plague at work - we were only catching 8 per night coz we only had 8 traps! - and if anyone left a choc bar on their desk the mice would bite thru the wrapper & eat the chocolate from the outside of the bar...

I'll second that about mice and chocolate, the little buggers found my secret stash in the glove-box of my car! But after having mice eating my lovely essential-oil-no-nasties-pure-vegetable-oil-soaps and deciding to use them as baits I had the same result as you Chirpy Chook, we'd catch as many as we'd set, every night. Only the smallest soap crumb was needed and it stayed stuck to the trap for several victims. Brilliant stuff!

I live in New Zealand so we are lucky to have very few real nasties. I am not a fan of large spiders and Huhu Beetles can scare the crap out of you when they are flying around. Large moths and I do not get on. I think the worst insect I encountered was a large Weta in my bed (while I was in it)..... however my immediate thought when you asked your question was "people" there are just some people who you just wish never passed through your door. So a bit of a different spin on things from my end.

Heh. I live in NZ and also appreciate our lack of nasties. The worst I have encountered were the rats brought in and let go by the cat who liked to have them to play with later... When he let one go under my desk while I was barefoot, I called in the puppy to learn a new game, and spoiled the cat's fun.

Huhu always try to bite me when I rescue the ones that get stuck lying on their back upside down on the deck after crashing into windows at night, but they can't get through skin, and are really cute close up if not flying into your face - they are actually quite fluffy!

Luckily I have never had a reptile in the house, but do get an occasional Huntsman and have had them in the car when it has been parked under trees which wasn't appreciated. One year we had a plague of bush rats and they would chew through the fibre-glass circles on the security screens and come inside, so I changed the screens to metal. We often have problems with possums and I am normally quite friendly towards them, allowing them to sleep on top of the aircon motor during the day, but I did have one come inside one night. The dog crept along behind it and when it saw him, it made a run for it. However, recently I seem to have a rogue possum which has eaten every plant that normal possums leave and even is ring-barking a jade plant, so that I can no longer have pot plants on my verandah. I feel extremely hostile towards this particular possum and despite the fact that it isn't life threatening, except to plants, I consider it the worst uninvited guest ever.

Living in Adelaide I learned it is wise to put a permanent cover over an unused chimney flue after taking a couple of short holidays. First time a swarm of bees came down the chimney and entertained the neighbours on the large front window. Gone by my return, except a few dead ones. Second time a mother and baby possum came down and refused to leave preferring to HISS at me and pee all over the books in my book shelves. They even ignored the tasty trail of apple pieces leading to the front door. Finally 15 hours later a wild life rescuer rescued me from their presence in my home. Unpaid heroes. Quickly cemented over the chimney flue.

My most memorable unwanted visitor came to me once while I was on holidays in a beachfront apartment where the doors and windows were never closed. Came time for bed and a 6 ft red had made itself at home, full length across the bed, sound asleep, head on the pillows like it was its normal place to sleep. How do you move a 6ft red, I couldn't even lift its tail and knowing how short tempered they are I wasn't about to try anything. In desperation I kept flicking the light on and off, it decided it was not going to get any sleep and it let itself out. Needless to say no doors or windows were left open after that.

had pythons, tree snakes, redbacks, whitetails,funnel webs spiders, possums but the most problematic was a donkey in the kitchen who refused to see the door that she came in to leave, and got very lively and started her impression of a bull in a china shop..

When my husband was a kid his family came home from a holiday to find a wombat had dug through the walls of the house and taken up residence (the house was built of mudbrick). Took a lot of convincing to get it to move out.

I live in Cairns so weird things I see them all the time. Once we had a Taipan inside the house, a couple of brown snakes, bats inside the living room, bandicoot in our garden doing massive holes, one python was trying to eat our little pig and my dog saved her, but the worst was a massive Python that my dogs found at night and I saw them licking the python’s tale. I almost have a heart attack.

White-tail spider in my track suit pants WHICH I WAS WEARING!

I thought it was a lump of lint from the laundry, drew it out, and promptly flung it across the room once I realised... never to be seen again! How it didn't bite me and sat still to be picked up, I don't know - it must have known I wouldn't do it any harm.

We lived in lots of country places, too... We were invaded by small black crickets one year, and lady bugs, another year, in your drawers, in your hair, in your pantry, in your undies... everywhere! And then the blue tongue lizard that would go in and out with our dogs via doggie door, and made itself a nest in our laundry... I gave up and left some old towels for it. Had an echidna get up into the wheel well of our car... wild brumbies in our patio... the list goes on. My husband still says that the most unwelcome visitor was his mother... I like her better than he does!

even though the question came up ages ago... I have seen a Daddy long legs take a redback... don't know why 7weed1 says not? Any info anyone? I saw a big Daddy take a redback in our garage once. The Daddy was lightning fast... wrapping up the redback before it even knew what was happening, I think! (Whenever I think of Daddy long legs, I think of that show miniscule, with the dopey looking Daddy long legs grinning, lol)

You Aussies and your biting stinging thingies!! I lived in Australia for a few years - yip, snakes, BIG roaches, enormous cane toads, bats, golden orbs, scorpions, blue tongue lizard in the kitchen, python eating our Christmas duck, and even the cutest little shiny green frog that lived under the rim of the loo, popped out for a shower every time we flushed! I'm so happy now to be back home in NZ - such an easy place to live; potter in the garden without dodging the biting ants, walk bare foot in the bush if you want, swim where ever with only (maybe) the sharks to dodge! (Well, you have them too!). No leeches, no biting ants, no shakes, scorpions or toads. Yes, redbacks and white tail spiders (so they say) but I have NEVER seen any here - ever! Loved my time in Australia, but love living in NZ even more!

Daughter in Qlds just had a large, long healthy python slither from the roof onto her lines of washing -would have been a nasty surprise when taking tin the laundry!

My husband who was up a ladder cleaning the gutters came in ashen faced when he found a snake in the gutter. We called a snake catcher who was here for about 10 min. Scaled the ladder and started pulling the snake out, even he was shocked when it just kept on coming, it was huge! Put him in a sack and off he went with a few hundred dollars cash. I asked if he would set it free in the local bush. "yeah sure lady" as he skipped off, stupid me, I found out later it was worth about $800 for it's size and he would have sold it. A very profitable 10 minutes. Poor old snake he was beautiful.

Don't like the funnel webs in the pool though, they sit frozen in a bubble on the bottom for up to 3 days without drowning but if you take them out they are very quick to spring to life.

My husband was up a ladder cleaning the gutters when he came inside very ashen faced. Thought he had uncovered a huuuuge slug, but realised it was no slug. We rang the snake catcher who was here and gone in about 10 minutes. Up the ladder and he started pulling the snake out, even he was shocked when it just kept coming and coming. It was a beautiful enormous python doing no one any harm. I asked him if he would set it free in the local bush "yeah sure lady" as he skipped off with a few hundred dollars and the snake. I found out later it was worth about $800 on the market because it was so big. Poor old snake is probably in a cage now.

I don't like the funnel webs on the bottom of the pool though, very creepy. They sit in a bubble for up to 3 days dormant, if you take them out they spring to life. Got to love living in Australia.