Terabith Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Oh my gosh, this is SO CUTE!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halftime Hope Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Oh, cr****. I'm not going to sleep tonight. WTHeck, did I think I was going to see a cute possum video? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolate-chip chooky Posted November 14, 2021 Author Share Posted November 14, 2021 1 minute ago, Terabith said: Oh my gosh, this is SO CUTE!!!! I wish I had a video of the babies. Now they are *cute*. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolate-chip chooky Posted November 14, 2021 Author Share Posted November 14, 2021 3 minutes ago, Halftime Hope said: Oh, cr****. I'm not going to sleep tonight. WTHeck, did I think I was going to see a cute possum video? Oh, I'm sorry. There is a cute possum video, at the bottom of page 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halftime Hope Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 8 minutes ago, chocolate-chip chooky said: Oh, I'm sorry. There is a cute possum video, at the bottom of page 2. I'm sorry chocolate-chip chooky. That sounded much testier in print when I re-read it; I meant why the heck did I think.... No harm, no foul, and I'll go look up the video. Obviously I didn't read the whole thread, because so. many. snake. stories. Shudder. I have a fondness for oppossums though. They use the top of my lovely backyard fence as a super-highway, and someday I hope to meet one who isn't scared to death of me suddenly appearing in the night as I'm walking the dog. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaelAldrich Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 My kids like Melby but when I try to sell Brisbane, they do research. And then they said no way. They heard the stories from our friends about the spiders and snakes. I still hope my DH will get the Fulbright so we can go there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Blue Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 (edited) @chocolate-chip chooky (or someone)…what kind of chicken (or rooster?) is this….that large one that looks like your avatar? Is it the same kind as the one in your avatar? Our new neighbors have six chickens and they are spending a lot of time right at my front door! Please don’t quote the photo!!!! Edited November 14, 2021 by Indigo Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolate-chip chooky Posted November 14, 2021 Author Share Posted November 14, 2021 @Indigo Blue I think that might be a Plymouth Rock. My avatar is a Silver-laced Wyandotte. Such beautiful neighbour chookies you have! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Blue Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 18 minutes ago, chocolate-chip chooky said: @Indigo Blue I think that might be a Plymouth Rock. My avatar is a Silver-laced Wyandotte. Such beautiful neighbour chookies you have! Thanks. They are adorable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 1 hour ago, chocolate-chip chooky said: My dad hand-feeds a family of possums that live in their garage. This possum family has had several babies, and they even let my dad hand feed the babies. Possums are very common in urban areas. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who comes across possums, though. I'll post a video, but I'll delete after a bit, for privacy. NOOOOO! I missed it!!!! 😞 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 1 hour ago, Catwoman said: NOOOOO! I missed it!!!! 😞 Me too, boo! 😞 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 I ❤️ possums. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 3 hours ago, lewelma said: We have the Kea! Beware your car! This alpine parrot likes to pick the rubber off of the outside of your vehicle while you are out for a nice walk in the park. They're really neat birds, though :). L is particularly partial to the Tui. They have such an interesting range of sounds. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drama Llama Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 (edited) 41 minutes ago, MercyA said: I ❤️ possums. Opossums are cool, but I assume the video I missed was an Australian possum which is a totally different animal. Edited November 14, 2021 by Baseballandhockey better video 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Here, possums are EVIL! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AurieD Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 That is really cool @chocolate-chip chooky (the snake, I didn't see the possum video). I lived in the bush growing up, in south west WA where snakes are plentiful but only saw about 5 in my whole childhood! My first in the wild carpet python was this year, my son and husband found it when climbing some rocks, they abandoned the rock climbing but I had to go up and have a look. I did see about 6700 snakes when on a long hike a few years ago. Mostly dugites and tigers which would sliver away when they heard us coming. Once we were being a little too quite and unobservant though and we missed one until it come in between two of us on the track rearing up and hissing, that was the only time I've been scared of a snake. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drama Llama Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 1 hour ago, lewelma said: Here, possums are EVIL! Are they the same possums and invasive or do you have different possums? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree Frog Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 6 hours ago, lewelma said: We have the Kea! Beware your car! This alpine parrot likes to pick the rubber off of the outside of your vehicle while you are out for a nice walk in the park. I went to look up a Kea and found this video. They look like fun birds to study or watch! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 13 minutes ago, Baseballandhockey said: Are they the same possums and invasive or do you have different possums? They were brought into NZ in 1937 from Australia to create a fur trade. They hiked breeding pairs deep into the native bush all over NZ in both the North and South Island. They eat our native trees and outcompete our native birds for food. They eat the eggs, they eat the chicks, they even eat our native insects like the weta. They are just horrible. NZ has a massive kill program where they drop 1080 from the sky which kills all mammals, and lucky for NZ, there are no mammals in our forests that we want. As in NONE. So we just kill them all. Possums, rats, stoats, pigs, deer, etc. Possums are a horrible horrible pest and are deep inside our most precious national parks. NZ wants them ALL dead. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drama Llama Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Are there no native mammals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 I love opossums. The US kind. I used to volunteer at a zoo and we had an opossum that had been rescued when mom was hit by a car and hand-raised. She as a sweetheart and I loved holding her. She'd sit with her head on your shoulder like you'd hold a baby, with one hand under her butt and she'd wrap her prehensile tail around your arm, then snuggle into your neck/under your hair. I did see someone try to pet her under her chin (maybe they were letting her smell their hand, IDK) and get bit. They have a mouth full of really really sharp teeth. It was like a finger full of needle pricks. But she never bit anyone else that I know of. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 27 minutes ago, Baseballandhockey said: Are there no native mammals? Nope. Just a bat! And it just won the Bird of the Year contest! LOL. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 19 minutes ago, lewelma said: Nope. Just a bat! And it just won the Bird of the Year contest! LOL. And aquatic mammals, like sea lions and dolphins. NZ ecology is really special. We had a chance to visit the Orokuni refuge, and it is just totally unlike anywhere else I've ever been. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Louise Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dunedin-woman-calls-police-after-being-held-hostage-by-possum/JAGUPLLZP7WS4NNS52YYQHNWSA/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 On 11/13/2021 at 12:09 PM, WildflowerMom said: Thanks, I hate it. 😆 says the girl who lives in the land of gators and snakes. I'm on a snake identification group on facebook, and it's a bit startling the percentage of photos posted that are from Florida, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildflowerMom Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 3 hours ago, ktgrok said: I'm on a snake identification group on facebook, and it's a bit startling the percentage of photos posted that are from Florida, lol. Yes I’ve contributed a few photos to that group myself. I’m near a swamp and snakes and gators are just a way of life down south. But I still hate venomous ones. I don’t mess with them, but I give them a mean evil eye. 😆. The others are perfectly welcome around me. In our old house, we even had an indigo who lived in the field with his gopher tortoise friend. He was gigantic. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 3 hours ago, ktgrok said: I'm on a snake identification group on facebook, and it's a bit startling the percentage of photos posted that are from Florida, lol. Part of that is that Florida is the single place in North America where there is a 50/50 that you'll run into a happy, thriving snake from Asia or South America vs something native to this continent. Especially S. Fl. It makes identification more difficult when "well, it can't be an X, they don't live here" isn't necessarily so. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 44 minutes ago, Dmmetler said: Part of that is that Florida is the single place in North America where there is a 50/50 that you'll run into a happy, thriving snake from Asia or South America vs something native to this continent. Especially S. Fl. It makes identification more difficult when "well, it can't be an X, they don't live here" isn't necessarily so. I've actually never seen a non native snake, and in the group we only get a very few - usually ball python or corn snake variations that are someone's lost pet. Now, out in the everglades I know there are a lot, but they seem to be avoiding people pretty well, sadly. Iguanas..those I've seen, when I was further south. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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