kellyjamie Posted December 14, 2007 Posted December 14, 2007 HI, we are headed for Melbourne eventually, BUT i have a huge fear of snakes. i am trying to watch them on t.v but find even that hard. i sweat i feel sick and go cold its horrible. anyhow i turned over the tv half hour ago and found a programme called the snake buster an aussie guy travelling the country catching snakes and would you believe it he was in bloody Melbourne and was going to peoples houses that had phoned because they had one in their house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:arghh::shocked::shocked: i swear i was freaking! i am fully aware theyre in oz i just didnt bank on the buggers getting in your house please tell me this is rare as im feeling sick to my stomach at the thought?????? considering some kind of therapy to help me get over it:cry:
Life on easy street Posted December 14, 2007 Posted December 14, 2007 Snakes you cannot avoid them in Australia. You will have to get used to snakes without them Australia would be over run with Rats.
Guest wannabeinoz Posted December 14, 2007 Posted December 14, 2007 sorry...still chuckling at ur post...I understand where you are coming from as I too have a tad of a fear of snakes...if I see them on TV I have to put my feet up!!:err: Anyway, there is a technique called EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) it is supopsed to be amazing at helping get rid of any types of FEAR!!! So, you could try a session with a qualified practitioner to help you overcome your fear...I know that I'll be using it for my own fear of snakes...(we've used EFT before for jet lag flying back and forth to Oz..it helped that!) EFT Provides Impressive Health and Emotional Freedom--New Discovery Often Works Where Nothing Else Good luck and Happy moving... Clare x
kellyjamie Posted December 14, 2007 Author Posted December 14, 2007 Hi all thanx for your words of wisdom, claire i will defo look it to that i will try anything to rid or atleast ease my fear otherwise i,ll be forever walking round with stun gun attached to my belt!!!:biglaugh:
calNgary Posted December 14, 2007 Posted December 14, 2007 Dont worry too much,,you see more on TV there than you do in real life here.I was the same as you but with spiders,,after a year ive finally realised they arent waiting behind every door to jump me,or hiding behind every plant pot to eat me! !!!You scare yourself more reading books and looking at the internet,,you will be fine ,,honest Cal x
Sids Dad Posted December 15, 2007 Posted December 15, 2007 Don't worry, I lived in Melbourne in the seventies and the only snakes we saw were ones that were flattened on the country roads. Look at the BBC, fabricating and changing footage, it's more likely that they had a pile of the buggers and got the camera crew set up and dumped one in the house! would not surprise me in the least. Don't take any notice of the one or two scare mongers on this site, they are having a laugh at your expense. I would imagine you will be in one of the sububs of Melbourne as I was all those years ago, saw a spider once and it just sat there, didn't leap at my throat or run up my leg! if you are really scared then take the therapy that has been suggested above, but don't let TV shows influence your decision to relocate (Brave decision to start with). I bet you wont be scared to get up close to a Koala bear (Wilson's promatary) or watch a Mob of Roos bounding alongside your car (Great Ocean Road), Emus, Parakeets of all colours (Dandenong Mountains), I could go on, Victoria is a beautiful state, cool winters and great summers, don't let the scare mongers get the better of you. The Aussies also will try to get a laugh out of your fears, they used to tell me that if I saw a snake on the road, throw your brakes on tyo squash it otherwise it will wrap around your axle and you will take it home with you! Well I never did see a snake that I could squash and believe me I travelled everywhere in that state. I used their wind ups to my advantage though as I used to play on the poor frightened POM and refuse to go under houses when we were working in the refridgeration game, as there might be spiders or snakes there!! (Who was the mug?). You will love Melbourne and Victoria so don't worry too much. I mean in the UK we are supposed to be only 15 feet from a Rat at any one time! You seen one lately? me neither. Good Luck with it, Alan.
Quoll Posted December 15, 2007 Posted December 15, 2007 Unless you are planning on living out in the bush then I wouldnt worry. Snakes tend to avoid suburbia! I have been here nearly 30 years and seen only half a dozen in that time and all bar one of them were while out bushwalking miles away from anywhere. The other was a road kill still quite a way out of town. If you are planning on buying up 20 acres on the edge of a national forest though then you may meet more than you bargain for.
kellyjamie Posted December 15, 2007 Author Posted December 15, 2007 thankyou so much for that it has really helped put my mind at ease. I think because they are my fear i obviously look for them more any story involving them and im reading it! sids dad your a star that was sound advice and just what i needed to hear, my OH was beginning to woorry my fear would rule our choices! were headed to Melbourne for 3 weeks in june so i,ll see how i go i,ll just keep my stun gun with me:spinny: like i mentioned i can handle the fact they are there but i just freaked at seeing it the house!! thanx again:wubclub:
Life on easy street Posted December 16, 2007 Posted December 16, 2007 Mostly snakes will not attack unless provoked or you accidentally step on one The best thing to do if you see a snake is walk away and leave it alone. Most of the people that have been bitten are unlucky or stupid. They are a good thing they control the number of rat’s which I do not like.
Guest The Riddler Posted December 16, 2007 Posted December 16, 2007 4 yrs in Melbourne and i've seen just one. Now spiders on the other hand...
Guest ARNOULD1 Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 Hi I have lived in Australia for 5 years and have been living in country victoria for the past 18 months, we live on 5 acres and have a dam, snakes need to be near fresh water....anyway I have not seen a snake yet. Apparently there was a 1.5m tiger snake in the garden yesterday as my hubby and I were out gardening. he said it just slithered past him, he just carried on in his shorts and thongs, lol. I hate snakes, the very thought of seeing one makes me feel sick but hey it hasn't happened yet. Snakes are aware that you are there long before you know about them, they will do everything in their power to disappear before you get to them. You need to avoid sticking your hands into dense grass area, etc, they are most aggressive when they come out of hibernation around oct/nov time and they are shedding their skin. My hubby reckons I am just so freaked by them that I am blinded to them lol. but it is australia, there are snakes and if your sensible you should be right. If you are unlucky enough to have one in your house you can phone a snake handler who's employed by the council to come and get it. Keep the areas around your property clean and tidy and they will have nothing to come in for. The advice is to stay still and let the snake pass......I'd be catatonic so no problem there.....:v_SPIN:Good luck
kellyjamie Posted December 17, 2007 Author Posted December 17, 2007 Well i have no chance of living in the countryside and im concreting every bit of greenery with a 10 mile radius of my house!!!:biglaugh: on a more serious note as you say you havent seen one yet and your right theywant to get away from you, we head out fo r3 weeks in june so i,ll see how i go and i know that i doubt i,ll see one anyhow as the minute my brain registers SNAKE i,ll of fainted!!!!!:biglaugh:
Guest The Riddler Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 Just remember everyone, snakes are deaf but respond to vibration in the ground, ergo, walk heavy and they scarper - just give them that chance to get out of the way. Avoid long grass and mice in your home and keep your dawgs on the leash in the summer time...she'll be right.
Guest jim & nik Posted November 13, 2008 Posted November 13, 2008 Don't mention spiders:arghh:. I was told the snakes kept them under control. Jim:jimlad:
Guest Aldo Posted November 13, 2008 Posted November 13, 2008 good reading http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=EC103p30.pdf Unprovoked attacks by brown snakes are quite common and in my opinion any animal that is cold to the touch, has no legs and moves that fast on land is spawned from the devil.
Dawny Posted November 13, 2008 Posted November 13, 2008 good readinghttp://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=EC103p30.pdf Unprovoked attacks by brown snakes are quite common and in my opinion any animal that is cold to the touch, has no legs and moves that fast on land is spawned from the devil. Thanks for the link Aldo, Dawn:arghh:
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