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Where's BAZ?

Mike.C

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For those who are thinking of coming to Oztralia for a holiday and make it to Queensland, you need to know a bit about our local fauna.

Now BAZ is a cane toad, one of the great unwashed so to speak. He belongs to that group of vertebrates that just shouldn't be here - introduced by some well meaning scientific types back in the early 20th century to control the cane beetle but he decided that life in Qld was too good to be eating little grubs, and what with our quality beers and fine shunshine thought he would go walkabout a bit.

Well since then he has been sighted everywhere - he even popped up in Dunnedoo a few years back, but by then he was reportedly stuffed.

So to all you would be Aussie travellers, it is a condition of entry to this wide brown land that you know the story of Baz so that you can keep an eye out for him on your travels, and how to deal with him when you do find him.. There will be a test.


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Tell you what. I'll trade our armadillos for your toads. So far I've managed to avoid hitting one with the bike, but I had a real close call one night doing about 75 mph. I think I could mash a toad without crashing, but a "possum on the half shell" is a different matter. They wandered up here from Mike and Todd Haven's backyard several years ago, and they seem to really like the neighborhood. Just the other week our above-ground propane tank sunk into one of the varmint's dens, and only the gas line kept it from rolling out in the yard:angry:

Anyone visiting the Southeast, Southwest, or deep South in the USA beware. Hell, just about everywhere south has the things now, and, like the cane toads in Oz, they don't belong here.

Armadillos have a nasty habit of jumping straight up in the air when alarmed such as when a car or truck passes overhead. The end result is always the same, a dead diller and a startled motorist, not to mention the most stinking carrion on the planet after a few days on the side of the road going through various chemical changes. Rumor has it that they even carry leprosy as a special added bonus.

Most any type of firearm producing massive trauma will dispose of them, but when shot with a small caliber, non-expanding bullet, they tend to escape to one of their strategically located holes where they will eventually die and produce an odor worse than the one coming out of DC right now:laugh:

Just for fun, let's hear from anyone worldwide who is blessed with armadillos in their garden:woohoo:
 
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