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sweetpea Top Member Posts: 5,982	BIG grasshoppers Sept 20, 2015 17:28:45 GMT Cherry, grindle, and 3 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sweetpea on Sept 20, 2015 17:28:45 GMT Some of the friends I made when in Oz.
	I'll get around to it eventually

roofgardener Top Member PLanting Chillis Posts: 2,378	BIG grasshoppers Sept 20, 2015 17:46:31 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by roofgardener on Sept 20, 2015 17:46:31 GMT ROFL... cute 'grasshoppers'.

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BIG grasshoppers Sept 21, 2015 6:06:27 GMT SueA likes this

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Post by Cherry on Sept 21, 2015 6:06:27 GMT

My Mum used to have jute bags nailed to the wall of the shed with wallaby joeys using them. Bushfires brought them in and sometimes the mothers would be shot. Different days. It was a long time ago. When you nurse one, they flip over, heavy tail up.

roofgardener Top Member PLanting Chillis Posts: 2,378	BIG grasshoppers Sept 21, 2015 6:17:34 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by roofgardener on Sept 21, 2015 6:17:34 GMT What on earth is a "joey" ?

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BIG grasshoppers Sept 21, 2015 8:10:52 GMT

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Joeys are baby kangaroos/wallabies Roofy, they spend their early months in the mother's pouch so if kind people like Cherry's mum find them alive in the pouch of a dead roo/wallaby they put them in a bag to replicate the pouch & bottle feed them until they can survive on their own. I expect there are so many now Cherry that farmers etc. are less likely to do this than when you lived there?

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BIG grasshoppers Sept 21, 2015 16:39:53 GMT SueA likes this

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Post by Cherry on Sept 21, 2015 16:39:53 GMT

My mother loved wild animals and even had a Major Mitchell cockatoo which came for food. We had a baby emu called Essie because it was kept in the Esse Fairy oven when it was just born. When it grew up, it kept getting on to the road, so it was given to Healesville Sanctuary, not to far from us. We took the children to see Essie and called her. My husband had sandwiches for the children and took one out for the emu. We knew which one she was because she ignored the sandwich and took the packet full of sandwiches from under my husband's arm.

SueA the wildlife we had would interest you. I am not too keen on snakes though. They are all poisonous in Australia.

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BIG grasshoppers Sept 21, 2015 19:59:06 GMT

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Post by SueA on Sept 21, 2015 19:59:06 GMT

You'd obviously taught Essie well Cherry!

I don't think I'd be keen on the snakes either Cherry or the poisonous spiders even though I have held a tarantula & a python (well let part of it rest on my hand!)

My half-sis who lives in Sydney did send me a koala bear toy when I was little which I loved until I found out that it's fur was made from kangaroo skin!

I had it years until the dog managed to knock it off a cupboard & chew it to death!

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Post by Cherry on Sept 21, 2015 20:06:16 GMT

We are brought up with these dangers. There are no tarantulas, but some of our spiders are deadly. This makes me happy to handle and admire the spiders in this country. In Victoria we have red backs living under the car ramp on the verge unless it is cut out of the cement. Sydney has funnel web spiders, which I have never seen.

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BIG grasshoppers

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