I lived in Australia and I never had to carry around pepper spray just to walk around the neighborhood. The wildlife in the interior of BC laughs at Aussie fauna. Deadly spiders? Check. Deadly snakes? Check. Cougars & coyotes? Check. Bloodthirsty predators that literally sit outside your bedroom window & growl just to remind you whose ‘hood you’re in? Check. Your crocs are cute, Aussies but our bears will come in & take the leftovers from the fridge while looking you dead in the eyes. #BC
@godlessmom Yes ma'am, had a family in my Walnut tree, mamma and two babies eating to their hearts content.
@godlessmom at least you can see the bears and coyotes coming most of the time, they don’t sit in your toilet or under your bed. 🤷🏼‍♀️
@nona80_swanette our black widows and rattlers do!

@godlessmom Don’t get me wrong, I love Canada, but …
Black widow ranks at 5, funnel web and red back rank at 1 and 2 respectively. 🤣
Eastern tiger (7), coastal taipan (2) and inland taipan (1) all make top 10, while rattlers don’t even make top 10. 😳 not to mention the Browns (which are sometimes listed above taipans because of how aggressive they are), Copperheads, Red-Bellied Blacks and Adders.
Also, there’s the critters in the water when you go swimming like jellyfish, stonefish and blue-ringed octopus 😂
Then there’s cassowary, platypus, kangaroos, sharks, stingrays, dingoes … 🤯
And magpies 😋
Oh, and don’t even start thinking about starting a war with the Emus. 😭

I mean, it’s not a competition but if it were … 😉

@nona80_swanette oh yeah I got stung by one of those jellyfish off Rottnest. the bastards
@godlessmom yep, they’re not fun. But you would have seen quokka, so I hope that made up for it.
@nona80_swanette I love the quokkas! Happiest little guys on earth!
@godlessmom When I tell people that, in Montana, I used to hike with a sidearm and pepper spray, they give me the ol' 😳.
@godlessmom Great. Now I can never travel to Australia or BC in Canada.
@godlessmom But do you have libertarians?
@AnneofBeeves yes, the most dangerous wildlife of all
@godlessmom
They never seem to use the doors, or even the same window that they came in to leave.
Why do they like to eat gas and diesel Jerry cans?
Furry vandals.
@godlessmom I have been to Brisbane, Stanthorpe, Chinchilla, Springsure, Steve Irwin's Zoo, Yeppoon, Keppel Island, Byron Bay. I felt very safe everywhere I went.
@brianrrs37 same! Only once, in primary school, we were playing a game outside and the teachers called us all in because a King Brown snake was spotted.