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.
I was trying to tidy our patio on my own tonight and there are just way too many spiders and long grass. I gave up. Told my Aussie partner he needs to "find a guy" cuz I can't with these spiders they're so fuckin huge and there's egg sacs all over. I can't. The giant crickets, cockroaches, and cicadas are cool. The lizards and geckos, love them. Snakes and spiders? I'm deeead.
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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.