BLUE TONGUE SKINKS

splashy07 wrote:Yes, I'm bad. Started with bugs as a child, didn't win me any popularity contests because little girls in the 60's were not supposed to like such things....drove my parents insane constantly catching bugs and whatnot.

<<< gee .... every girl I knew in the 60s was into bugs, lizards, and fishing .... my little sisters, the girls in my street, the girls in my class , and all my girl cousins .... no wimpy little princesses amongst them

<<< we had budgies, finches, skinks, fish , frogs , a cat and a dog , sometimes dad would bring home a joey (when he came across a roo who's be run over and fund a live joey in the dead mother's pouch), possums too. And I was for ever going flipping and catching wild skinks and geckos and legless lizards and even some elapids ( baby black and baby brown snakes .... this freaked mum out and they usually disappeared pretty soon ..... I had great reflexes which were lightning fast and somehow never go nailed by a snake.

I only started meeting girls who were tame and scared of these things when I was in highschool and discovered square and ballroom dancing were great places to meet "nice" girls, I wound up married to one of them , and she's only started coming round after we had our first wild house lizard visiting , she was initially more scared of the little skink than the skink was of her. That changed the day the skink accepted a cricket from her fingers .... instant love !!!


That's not even all of the collection...Just got some Aussie mantises this week, they are my favorite. I breed all my own feeder insects so always a constant supply. My current bluey count is 12, 5 Easterns and 7 Northerns. And yes, my freezer contains more rats than people food. That's the only drawback to snakes, wish they would eat a salad or something. But I simply cannot live without them.