Kangaroos are terrifying and no one is talking about it

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Anonymous wrote:Aussies are oddly fond of their wildlife. On the other hand, they aim to kill up to 5 million cats over the next 5 years.

Truth - but to be fair, this Aussie is also very fond of American wildlife … even those rascally raccoons that get into our trash ….


In Australia - one domestic cat kills on average about 186 mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs a year, compared to the 748 that one feral cat can kill. However, because domestic cats are concentrated in suburbs, the total number of animals they kill per hectare is higher than the number that feral cats in the bush kill.


That said - I love cats and don’t like this war on Aussie cats - I wish they would just neuter them and put bells on them to give birds fair warning

Bells don't work--cats learn to walk without jingling them

Would putting bells on killer kangas help warn people and dogs they are nearby?

Maybe. It seems like it would be hard to hop silently if you have bells on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aussies are oddly fond of their wildlife. On the other hand, they aim to kill up to 5 million cats over the next 5 years.

Truth - but to be fair, this Aussie is also very fond of American wildlife … even those rascally raccoons that get into our trash ….


In Australia - one domestic cat kills on average about 186 mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs a year, compared to the 748 that one feral cat can kill. However, because domestic cats are concentrated in suburbs, the total number of animals they kill per hectare is higher than the number that feral cats in the bush kill.


That said - I love cats and don’t like this war on Aussie cats - I wish they would just neuter them and put bells on them to give birds fair warning

Bells don't work--cats learn to walk without jingling them

Would putting bells on killer kangas help warn people and dogs they are nearby?

Maybe. It seems like it would be hard to hop silently if you have bells on.

And who knows how many people the government could employ putting bells on kangaroos?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aussies are oddly fond of their wildlife. On the other hand, they aim to kill up to 5 million cats over the next 5 years.

Truth - but to be fair, this Aussie is also very fond of American wildlife … even those rascally raccoons that get into our trash ….


In Australia - one domestic cat kills on average about 186 mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs a year, compared to the 748 that one feral cat can kill. However, because domestic cats are concentrated in suburbs, the total number of animals they kill per hectare is higher than the number that feral cats in the bush kill.


That said - I love cats and don’t like this war on Aussie cats - I wish they would just neuter them and put bells on them to give birds fair warning

Bells don't work--cats learn to walk without jingling them

Would putting bells on killer kangas help warn people and dogs they are nearby?

Maybe. It seems like it would be hard to hop silently if you have bells on.

Might be hard to put them on the tree kangaroos since they’re usually way high up in the canopy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aussies are oddly fond of their wildlife. On the other hand, they aim to kill up to 5 million cats over the next 5 years.

Truth - but to be fair, this Aussie is also very fond of American wildlife … even those rascally raccoons that get into our trash ….


In Australia - one domestic cat kills on average about 186 mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs a year, compared to the 748 that one feral cat can kill. However, because domestic cats are concentrated in suburbs, the total number of animals they kill per hectare is higher than the number that feral cats in the bush kill.


That said - I love cats and don’t like this war on Aussie cats - I wish they would just neuter them and put bells on them to give birds fair warning

Bells don't work--cats learn to walk without jingling them

Would putting bells on killer kangas help warn people and dogs they are nearby?

Maybe. It seems like it would be hard to hop silently if you have bells on.

Might be hard to put them on the tree kangaroos since they’re usually way high up in the canopy.

The feral cats could help with getting bells up high in the trees. Cats are very smart and would probably be willing to attach the bells to tree Kangas in exchange for not being slaughtered in the coming War on Cats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes magpies were terrifying during nesting season when growing up -

We even wore hats with eyes painted on the back so they would not try and poke our actual eyes out … and ran like the wind past any trees hosting their nests …

Wasn’t there a Bluey episode with a magpie? There was one with a really territorial nesting bird. I assume that’s what it was.

I get all my Australia knowledge from a cartoon dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When we lived overseas there was this zoo farm place (like the one in Fairfax) but the "attraction" was KANGAROOS. You were supposed to take your kids and get all excited about walking through the kangaroo enclosure.

It was so freaking creepy. Their legs go the wrong way. They just sit and stare at you. I've never looked at kangaroos the same way again.

I went to something like that in Oz and loved it!

[Anonymous]

Once you people are done with the Roid Rage Roos can we talk about the Cocaine
Hippos in Columbia?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once you people are done with the Roid Rage Roos can we talk about the Cocaine
Hippos in Columbia?

Hippos are terrifying in general. I can’t imagine what they’re like high.

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Anonymous wrote:So glad we don't have kangaroos in the us. Ten feet tall, all muscle and likes to punch and drown dogs just running amuck? No thank you.

No disagreement but you know what local beastie terrifies me? Gators. Say what you will about FL but everyone living there has nerves of steel imo.

Oh, gosh, yes. I went on a boat tour with Gators once and it scared the ever-loving carp out of me. That’s plural by the way, multiple fish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm shocked about this idiotic thread. You people have obviously no clue about nature and biology. You live in a superficial disney-world and are surprised about the reality. By the way: the most cruel und the most detestable being in the world is the human being.

Did you ever consider that this thread may have been started by a wallaby? Hmmmm?

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^considered

Or actually…are YOU a wallaby?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once you people are done with the Roid Rage Roos can we talk about the Cocaine
Hippos in Columbia?

I don't think I know anyone who has met a Cocaine Hippo

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So glad we don't have kangaroos in the us. Ten feet tall, all muscle and likes to punch and drown dogs just running amuck? No thank you.

No disagreement but you know what local beastie terrifies me? Gators. Say what you will about FL but everyone living there has nerves of steel imo.

As a Floridian, I have never actually seen a gator in the wild, in the entire time I've lived here. They are there of course, but since I don't spend time in swamps or mangroves, I haven't encountered any.

I never thought about kangaroos, but where I used to live up north, they have bears breaking into houses to steal lasagna! That was just last week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So glad we don't have kangaroos in the us. Ten feet tall, all muscle and likes to punch and drown dogs just running amuck? No thank you.

No disagreement but you know what local beastie terrifies me? Gators. Say what you will about FL but everyone living there has nerves of steel imo.

As a Floridian, I have never actually seen a gator in the wild, in the entire time I've lived here. They are there of course, but since I don't spend time in swamps or mangroves, I haven't encountered any.

I never thought about kangaroos, but where I used to live up north, they have bears breaking into houses to steal lasagna! That was just last week.

Gator hating PP. Yeah but the bears won’t bother you if you leave them alone! They’re cute and smart and friendly as long as you don’t get between them and the lasagna! Nice normal furry megafauna, not dinosaur throwbacks! Gators look like they’ll just take a bite out of you for funnies. My sister went to the University of FL and she said they were sometimes just chilling by the road across from the bus stop. I couldn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^considered

Or actually…are YOU a wallaby?!

Now this kanga smear campaign all makes sense … one of the worst epithets in Aussie lingo is to be dismissed as a “Wally”.

I can see how this marginalization and minimization of a misunderstood mini-marsupials might mess with their minds -(Aussies love silly alliterations so please reply in kind).

Wake up Wiallabies and get a whiff of the gum trees … Fair crack of the whip fellas!