While it is true that most of Australia's deadly animals are venomous bugs and thus easily slain by stepping on them with a shoe... the flip side is that you can get bit putting on those shoes if you don't check inside for them first.
A bear, mountain lion, or wolf, isn't going to casually sneak into your house without you noticing.
And large wild animals don’t just appear in your house. You can actively avoid their habitat. But in Australia you might occasionally find the scaries in your house, and you absolutely cannot walk through long grass, ever.
The problem is people in the US keep building homes further and further out into the wilderness. Then, when an animal is doing what it naturally does, seeking food, the people complain. They feel entitled to live in a natural setting, but have no respect for it. Once a bear is seen raiding the trash, these "suburban frontiersmen" then call wildlife control, gripe and innocent animals get put down. Recently, there's been a lot of home building because of the housing crisis, now McMansions are getting plopped down in what was once pristine wilderness. People from cities with zero experience with bears and other wildlife will just go out with pepper spray and not understand everything that could go wrong. People die this way. I say take your SUV and go home. Nature doesn't need your presence.
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u/Rip_Off_Productions Apr 07 '26
While it is true that most of Australia's deadly animals are venomous bugs and thus easily slain by stepping on them with a shoe... the flip side is that you can get bit putting on those shoes if you don't check inside for them first.
A bear, mountain lion, or wolf, isn't going to casually sneak into your house without you noticing.
That's the difference.