Eednud Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 Python snacks on a wallaby in Wynnum, about 20 kms from Brisbane CBD. Photos have emerged of a python devouring a young wallaby in a suburban Brisbane street. Posted to the Wynnum What! Facebook page, they show the python wrapped around the wallaby in a drain behind a business on Brisbane’s bayside. The python has its jaws locked around the wallaby’s head with Nigel Anthony, who posted the photos, revealed “it did swallow the wallaby”. “It took an hour to swallow it. It’s cool to watch how they do it,” he said. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 Next time someone asks if I've ever thought of living in Brisbane I'll show them this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizzo Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 On 22/08/2024 at 10:21, BFTD said: We had a dog that loved bringing slugs in from the garden as presents - "look at this cool thing I found!" Also a cat who once came running to find me, did the cough-retch thing they do when a furball is coming up, then threw up a still-living spider. There's a part of me forever traumatised by the latter encounter, but imagine being the spider A mate of mine also has a dog that went through a slug phase. Problem was, my mate was paranoid about the dog eating the slugs so every time it brought one in she'd immediately get the treats out to distract the dog. Said dog learnt that if she brought slugs back she got treats so just did it more. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizzo Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 My nope moment for today. Grabbed my Falkirk scarf off the overloaded coat hooks in our hall and walked up to my parents house. Got in their door and felt something lightly scratching my face. Glanced out the corner of my eye and could just see the legs. Big bugger must have been scuttling around my shoulders all the way up the road. Never been a spider taxi before, but keep reading about it being spider mating season. Was I being touched up? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 9 hours ago, Rizzo said: My nope moment for today. Grabbed my Falkirk scarf off the overloaded coat hooks in our hall and walked up to my parents house. Got in their door and felt something lightly scratching my face. Glanced out the corner of my eye and could just see the legs. Big bugger must have been scuttling around my shoulders all the way up the road. Never been a spider taxi before, but keep reading about it being spider mating season. Was I being touched up? legs like a spider? It wasn't Mary from Maryhill was it? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 10 hours ago, Rizzo said: My nope moment for today. Grabbed my Falkirk scarf off the overloaded coat hooks in our hall and walked up to my parents house. Got in their door and felt something lightly scratching my face. Glanced out the corner of my eye and could just see the legs. Big bugger must have been scuttling around my shoulders all the way up the road. Never been a spider taxi before, but keep reading about it being spider mating season. Was I being touched up? Towel, jacket, duvet, anything fabric that's going to be touching your skin - pick it up and flick it like you're whipping someone's arse in the shower (according to a mate). Always, always, always. Started doing that when I wrapped myself in a towel after a bath and discovered an absolute palm-sized monster pressed against my body 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 (edited) Oh won't somebody please tag @KnightswoodBear f955c1fc-3523-458c-8382-3da07b65f2ad.mp4 YJ3ZI4XXMSORVYNRGF2HRRPGIM.avif Edited August 25 by Swarley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 12 hours ago, BFTD said: Started doing that when I wrapped myself in a towel after a bath and discovered an absolute palm-sized monster pressed against my body Nobody likes a showoff. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizzo Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 (edited) 17 hours ago, BFTD said: Towel, jacket, duvet, anything fabric that's going to be touching your skin - pick it up and flick it like you're whipping someone's arse in the shower (according to a mate). Always, always, always. Started doing that when I wrapped myself in a towel after a bath and discovered an absolute palm-sized monster pressed against my body I've had the towel ambush before as well (luckily just when I was picking up a used one from the bathroom floor to fire in the lau dry basket). Edited August 25 by Rizzo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 10 minutes ago, Rizzo said: I've had the towel ambush before as well (luckily just when I was picking up a used one from the bathroom floor to fire in the lau dry basket). To my horror, I recently realised that there's no reason why they couldn't chill out on shower curtains, if the mood took them. Thankfully it occurred to me before it was too late and I ended up swinging from the fixtures. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomintroll Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 On 23/08/2024 at 08:30, Eednud said: Python snacks on a wallaby in Wynnum, about 20 kms from Brisbane CBD. Photos have emerged of a python devouring a young wallaby in a suburban Brisbane street. Posted to the Wynnum What! Facebook page, they show the python wrapped around the wallaby in a drain behind a business on Brisbane’s bayside. The python has its jaws locked around the wallaby’s head with Nigel Anthony, who posted the photos, revealed “it did swallow the wallaby”. “It took an hour to swallow it. It’s cool to watch how they do it,” he said. I am now locked in a cycle of saying swallaw the wallaby in Bea from Prisoner Cell Block H's voice. Thanks for that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyAnchor Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 20 hours ago, BFTD said: Started doing that when I wrapped myself in a towel after a bath and discovered an absolute palm-sized monster pressed against my body 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Anyone live in West Lothian? https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/freaked-out-west-lothian-gran-29863669 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 1 minute ago, Lyle Lanley said: Anyone live in West Lothian? https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/freaked-out-west-lothian-gran-29863669 Pretty sure @KnightswoodBearlives quite close 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 9 hours ago, Lyle Lanley said: Anyone live in West Lothian? https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/freaked-out-west-lothian-gran-29863669 I don't particularly mind tarantulas (maybe because they're fuzzy) and that poor thing looks broon breid to me 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 We get a fair amount of geckos in and out the house. A few weeks back the wife woke up screaming - one had fallen from the ceiling and hit her! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 12 hours ago, tamthebam said: I don't particularly mind tarantulas (maybe because they're fuzzy) and that poor thing looks broon breid to me It's just the skin. The bit that crawled out of it is still roaming free. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 12 hours ago, tamthebam said: I don't particularly mind tarantulas (maybe because they're fuzzy) and that poor thing looks broon breid to me The arachnid Norwegian blue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 34 minutes ago, hk blues said: We get a fair amount of geckos in and out the house. A few weeks back the wife woke up screaming - one had fallen from the ceiling and hit her! When I was 8ish we used to try to catch the wee ones (chitchats they were called) by the tail because the tail came off and kept wriggling for like five minutes. Fascinating for a child. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 12 minutes ago, coprolite said: When I was 8ish we used to try to catch the wee ones (chitchats they were called) by the tail because the tail came off and kept wriggling for like five minutes. Fascinating for a child. We have cats. They enjoy nothing more than watching the geckos on the ceiling hoping one will fall - invariable one does and it's a goner. They eat everything but the head for some reason so we often wake up to a grizzly scene on the doorstep. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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