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Petra Liverani's avatar

What a lovely story ... mostly.

Yes, there are loads of stories of pets recognising evil people.

It does amuse me though to see "Eastern Brown Snake" and "harmless" together in the same sentence as the Eastern Brown Snake in Australia has - supposedly - the second-most deadly venom in the world after the inland Taipan also Australian.

Just to say though as an Australian who doesn't really go into the bush much but does from time to time I feel very unthreatened by our venomous creatures. I've come within a foot or so of red-bellied black snakes (and when growing up we had one in our compost heap for awhile) but if you keep away from them they keep away from you. I don't know anyone personally who's ever been bitten by a snake and while I know people bitten by spiders not anything terribly serious. Unlike the US and in certain places in Europe, we have no dangerous mammals although kangaroos can sometimes be a bit aggressive.

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