What animal do you fear most? And why?

I throw my lot in with the folks with snakes, grew up dealing with rattlers. But mambas and fleur de lance are the ones that haunt my sleep, had close calls with all.
Fingers crossed those days are behind me.
Pat
I know the feeling well, living here with king browns, taipans, death adders, black snakes, tigers and more. The most venomous snake on the planet, the inland taipan or fierce snake lives not that far from where I am. Fortunately it is very shy and will avoid a confrontation unlike a tiger snake which has real attitude. I always keep a snake bite kit handy.
 
I know the feeling well, living here with king browns, taipans, death adders, black snakes, tigers and more. The most venomous snake on the planet, the inland taipan or fierce snake lives not that far from where I am. Fortunately it is very shy and will avoid a confrontation unlike a tiger snake which has real attitude. I always keep a snake bite kit handy.
@Cervus elaphas
Mate I keep a snake kit handy around camp all the time. A 12 GAUGE SHOT GUN. That way you don't need a bite kit.
Bob
 
@RandyF
Mate I think spiders are cute. I can't help it If'n you don't like em.
Bob.
Yeah I don't mind spidies, except the Sydney funnelweb, nasty little mongrels. Orb spiders are beautiful, huntsmen are the athletes of the arachnid world and common on the house walls up here in Queensland. In NZ there are whitetails, redbacks (imported from Oz), black widows afaik, and the native Katipo which lives in the sand dunes but in over 50 years I've never seen one. Arachnids are not my favourites but I don't bother them and they don't bother me. Cheers
 
@Cervus elaphas
Mate I keep a snake kit handy around camp all the time. A 12 GAUGE SHOT GUN. That way you don't need a bite kit.
Bob
Except when you go out in the dark to shake the sheriff and stand on one. My daughter did a trip outside in the dark for similar reasons and got bit but luckily it was a small python. Gave her a fright and she then bought a torch the size of a lighthouse.
 
that’s not true at all you’ve said on here atleast a dozen times that they’d make adequate tomato stakes.
@Skinnersblade
What are you doing out of bed at after midnight. You should be asleep God knows you need all the beauty sleep you can get.
Dang man you is almost as ugly as me. Almost.
Bob
 
To the above, since bears have come up, my frequent hunting partner, and the pastor of our church... bears scare him not in the least. I was there one night when he killed a belligerent one... in the dark... in a driving rain... with his .44... in nothing but his underwear. And I guarantee it never crossed his mind that there was any reason to worry. It was an adult too, a bit over 8 feet and fat from eating fish all summer. Still one of the craziest things I've ever witnessed.
I would have done the same thing, with a 44 .... pounder
 
Except when you go out in the dark to shake the sheriff and stand on one. My daughter did a trip outside in the dark for similar reasons and got bit but luckily it was a small python. Gave her a fright and she then bought a torch the size of a lighthouse.
@Cervus elaphas
That's why I keep a piss bottle in the tent.
If you want to see the shit hit the fan, throw a goanna into ya mates tent and zip it up. Stand back and watch the comedy show and see if you can still stand while laughing your guts out.
Bob
 
@Cervus elaphas
That's why I keep a piss bottle in the tent.
If you want to see the shit hit the fan, throw a goanna into ya mates tent and zip it up. Stand back and watch the comedy show and see if you can still stand while laughing your guts out.
Bob
Once saw a movie we’re one of your mates turned a Mexican into one of the goannas bob, I just hope the rest of you blokes have a better sense of direction then Wally.
 

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