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mamaneenie said:
Yep. They're commonly mistaken for obese cats when you see them eating out of your cat's bowl.
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I just posted some possum comparison pictures.
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I love them. They make no noise at night, not to me anyway. But they walk through the roof & make little padded walking sounds. Often, the ones I tame come from the trees & take pieces of bikkies & chew them in their little paws.
To kill them for fur products is S.I.C.K. Who do they harm? What harm do they do? They have their little lives to lead the same as we do! And, they have as much right on this planet as we have too!
To kill them for fur products is S.I.C.K. Who do they harm? What harm do they do? They have their little lives to lead the same as we do! And, they have as much right on this planet as we have too!
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LOLOLOLOLOL..........actress4him....LOL LOL LOL...........
I can't stop laughing after I saw the comparison photos...
It's like the american possum is so adapted into western modern cultures that it starts becoming a couch potato and takes in KFC and lives in a bin, and compared to the possum in Australia the one that has a kid on the back...lol....and you got the picture from the immigration website....lololol............
Anyways, possums are a pest in NZ, they eat the native bird species eggs....
However, I wouldn't mind adopting pygmy possums.... they're fun to play with
I can't stop laughing after I saw the comparison photos...
It's like the american possum is so adapted into western modern cultures that it starts becoming a couch potato and takes in KFC and lives in a bin, and compared to the possum in Australia the one that has a kid on the back...lol....and you got the picture from the immigration website....lololol............
Anyways, possums are a pest in NZ, they eat the native bird species eggs....
However, I wouldn't mind adopting pygmy possums.... they're fun to play with
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wow - I just checked out the Aussie possum photo - they are SO much cuter than our possums. They look a little like African bushbabies and lemurs. Ours are terribly homely buggers, huh?
BUT...they aren't terribly vicious compared to most wildlife. (Oh, next to fisher cats, they are as cuddly as baby chicks!)
I wouldn't mind seeing an Aussie possum walking around on my rooftop!
BUT...they aren't terribly vicious compared to most wildlife. (Oh, next to fisher cats, they are as cuddly as baby chicks!)
I wouldn't mind seeing an Aussie possum walking around on my rooftop!
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Our's are as sweet as pie Wolf! Big eyes and lovely tails. So cute! I recall a walk in the bush with my hubby once. We came across a tree which had a big hole in it & there was a piece of thick bark in front of the hole. I pulled the bark away and there was a possum standing up fast asleep. You can imagine the frantic trial to get the bark back with out wakling him up.
I recall a bushfire too. A hollow tree caught alight & we watched it roar up through the centre like a furnace. Suddenly, this thing shot out the top like out of a canon. All I noted was that it was black. On investigation, it was a possum. He landed flat on his belly, as black as the ace of spades and I'll swear he swore at us too!
He was well and truly alive though. But...his tail was a bit scorched.
I recall a bushfire too. A hollow tree caught alight & we watched it roar up through the centre like a furnace. Suddenly, this thing shot out the top like out of a canon. All I noted was that it was black. On investigation, it was a possum. He landed flat on his belly, as black as the ace of spades and I'll swear he swore at us too!
He was well and truly alive though. But...his tail was a bit scorched.
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hmmm... if i had to come across one of them on a dark night... i think i would go with the Aussie one!!!
They are really SO cute....
I was at my friends place one night and there were things flying around in the air and i had no idea what they were and it turns out they were bats.... ughy ughy ughy that is SO incredibly discusting. I live 15 mins away from her and we don't have ANY bats around here. So the walk from her flat to my car at night is the scariest thing ever... bats are gross, ugh
They are really SO cute....
I was at my friends place one night and there were things flying around in the air and i had no idea what they were and it turns out they were bats.... ughy ughy ughy
that is SO incredibly discusting. I live 15 mins away from her and we don't have ANY bats around here. So the walk from her flat to my car at night is the scariest thing ever... bats are gross, ugh
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We used to live across the street from a street light, and sometimes at night my friends and I would go throw rocks in the air and watch the bats follow them for a minute.
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Chris42 said:What about our lovely cute Koalas
I doubt I'll be able to find comparison photos, sorry.
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No...nothing can compare to them Actress....they are beautiful. I've had one living near my home in Q.L.D. He/she was gorgeous and got so used to our comings and goings. And, he was so inquisitive! Often we'd hear him on the roof. And, often we had to give way in the car while one crossed the road. They are special.
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Oh my goodness, your koalas are simply precious. I've never seen one "inperson" but I bet they're as sweet as they look.
Why are you all in a hyper about BATS?! They are SO COOL!!! they keep you mosquito-free, and believe you me, I would rather have bats flying around than mosquitoes. Where I used to live, right near a salt marsh, we had skeeters the size of housecats. You couldn't go out in the backyard all summer during the eveing, especially or you'd get sucked dry. It was like living in vampire land. Give me bats anyday!
I once nursed a little brown bat back to health - he was the cutest little thing. Like a little mouse with wings. really neat!
What a wombats like?
Why are you all in a hyper about BATS?! They are SO COOL!!! they keep you mosquito-free, and believe you me, I would rather have bats flying around than mosquitoes. Where I used to live, right near a salt marsh, we had skeeters the size of housecats. You couldn't go out in the backyard all summer during the eveing, especially or you'd get sucked dry. It was like living in vampire land. Give me bats anyday!
I once nursed a little brown bat back to health - he was the cutest little thing. Like a little mouse with wings. really neat!
What a wombats like?
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Koalas are cute but their nails are killers...ouch....
Bats...the flying fox, I have a bunch of story to turn you off...
Wombats...they're heavy, slow and really dusty...
On the whole, I like them all....
Bats...the flying fox, I have a bunch of story to turn you off...
Wombats...they're heavy, slow and really dusty...
On the whole, I like them all....
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About the koala's that is true Wolf. The bats...uhm...well...we get fruit bats here and they do whoopsies everywhere. From the trees...they hang upside down and do whoopsies.Wolflily said:
I nursed a beautiful little baby bat back to health too. It had got caught in the barbed wire poor little mite. It was gorgeous. But, I knew once it got better...it'd hang in the tree & do whoopsies from the wide blue yonder.
But...oooooooh it was so cute, and, so soft!!
Wombats are absolutely adorable. Especially as pets! Farmer's kill them in the east of Vic due to their causing soil erosion.
But, I adore the echidna. Ever try to get one out of the ground when they've dug in? You need a backhoe!
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Echidna's are cute, too? Are they related to English hedgehogs? (which have become favorite American pets.) Don't ask why - you can't really cuddle them!
Get this -Isn't it strange how you can have pets of wild animals as long as they aren't indigenous wild animals? Where I live it's perfectly legal to have exotic birds and reptiles that have had to be smuggled out of their natural habitat and forced to live as a pet in someone's home completely out of their own temperate zone but if you were to try and tame a squirrel, which makes a more sensible pet than say, a tarantula, and can actually handle your climate and has readily available food sources, you'd be committing a crime. Utter lunacy.
I used to want a pet raccoon and a pet deer when I was a child. Too much WALT DISNEY!!! I also used to do a lot of wildlife rehabilitation when I worked as a veterinary nurse and realized how unfair it is to keep wildlife as pets - they aren't suited for domesticity! (Well, some are - skunks can actually make very nice pets believe it or not!) I still meet a lot of people who think they can tame wolves and end up with more trouble than you could imagine. Even worse, they create hybrids with wolves and dogs and end up with walking time bombs that may or may not decide your kids would make wonderful appetizers!
I think Australian fauna is so unique and interesting. One of these days I'll get down there and visit them! (I love the Crocodile Hunter - he is just so darn cute and funny, and foolish at times with those snakes, but who's gonna stop HIM from sticking his hands in holes in the ground?!)
Get this -Isn't it strange how you can have pets of wild animals as long as they aren't indigenous wild animals? Where I live it's perfectly legal to have exotic birds and reptiles that have had to be smuggled out of their natural habitat and forced to live as a pet in someone's home completely out of their own temperate zone but if you were to try and tame a squirrel, which makes a more sensible pet than say, a tarantula, and can actually handle your climate and has readily available food sources, you'd be committing a crime. Utter lunacy.
I used to want a pet raccoon and a pet deer when I was a child. Too much WALT DISNEY!!! I also used to do a lot of wildlife rehabilitation when I worked as a veterinary nurse and realized how unfair it is to keep wildlife as pets - they aren't suited for domesticity! (Well, some are - skunks can actually make very nice pets believe it or not!) I still meet a lot of people who think they can tame wolves and end up with more trouble than you could imagine. Even worse, they create hybrids with wolves and dogs and end up with walking time bombs that may or may not decide your kids would make wonderful appetizers!
I think Australian fauna is so unique and interesting. One of these days I'll get down there and visit them! (I love the Crocodile Hunter - he is just so darn cute and funny, and foolish at times with those snakes, but who's gonna stop HIM from sticking his hands in holes in the ground?!)
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Wolflily said:
I had one. My dad went into a frenzy and was searching the newspaper for a for sale hedgehog (he almost bought a 6-foot python when he couldn't find a 'hog).
You're right, you can't cuddle them at ALL. My sister and I had to wear socks and potholders on our hands to pick him up. And they smell simply AWFUL. And not just the cage, either. I was at my aunt's, and it got so horrible that Mom decided to give him a bath (NEVER, EVER give a hedgehog a bath!). She used cold water, and he froze to death.
And I ended up naming my best friend's brother after the hedgehog.
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