Are Bandicoots still a native animal ????

[brocky05fj]

Found this in our local rag.

Foxes should used to keep Bandicoot numbers down apparently.
Here I was thinking we should be looking after native animals....

Cheers

[chester ver2.0]

They are on Barrow island mate if we even look at one the wrong way we are in trouble

[SteveandViv]

What, they are endangered which is why there is a breading program in the NT in Alice. They are bread them up here as none are found in the wild now. Malcolm Douglas was a keen warrior for there revival before he died.

I'll shoot a fox in a split second when I see them on the properties we visit up here.

[brocky05fj]

Sorry, it took a while to get the picture up.

The article explains it all.
Local residents complaining to council that there are bandicoots in their gardens now that the fox numbers are down.

Sounds back to front to me.

I'd be happy to have them

Cheers

[Tjupurula]

We still have bandicoots around areas of the lake Brocky, so they are still wild.
Tjupurula

[austastar]

Hi,
   I have them in our garden at home, South of Hobart.
We can often see them at night with a torch.


cheers

[achjimmy]

What, they are endangered which is why there is a breading program in the NT in Alice. They are bread them up here as none are found in the wild now. Malcolm Douglas was a keen warrior for there revival before he died.

I'll shoot a fox in a split second when I see them on the properties we visit up here.

That was an endangered species of bilby that the Big Fella was trying to save.

[achjimmy]

Found this in our local rag.

Foxes should used to keep Bandicoot numbers down apparently.
Here I was thinking we should be looking after native animals....

Cheers

That'll be some vegetarian, ferret loving greenie coming up with this. Possums are also another source of ticks and are in huge numbers in Sydney burbs.

We have a few bandicoots around us, sadly found one in the pool few weeks ago.

[Tjupurula]

That'll be some vegetarian, ferret loving greenie coming up with this. Possums are also another source of ticks and are in huge numbers in Sydney burbs.

We have a few bandicoots around us, sadly found one in the pool few weeks ago.

Hi Jim
You could always send some of the possums tyhis way, I have eaten the possum meat before, and it is quite nice.
Regards
Tjupurula

[SteveandViv]

That was an endangered species of bilby that the Big Fella was trying to save.

Cheers, I thought it was all over Aus they were in trouble - good the hear it's not so.

Well, We don't have any up here in the wild at the moment, not just specific ones. The idiots (Greenies) trying to save James Price Point also decided to try and make false claims of their sightings while that whole debate was going on. There hasn't been a sitting up here for a few years now.

I'm glad they are doing fine else where. They are still running a regeneration program around the big rock in the NT so I reckon they can do with some help. Cats and Foxes are a main area for concern.

And, on the Possums I reckon NZ could export plenty of possums back to Aus for free, we used to shot them by the hundreds when I lived in Christchurch and Wellington

[muzza01]

I didn't know that bandicoots were endangered. We have plenty up here that we could send elsewhere. Bandicoots are immune to the poison of the paralysis tick. They carry these ticks into your yard where they drop off the bandicoot and then get picked up by your own pet that does nt have immunity to the paralysis tick.
The bandicoot is a native animal where the fox is not. We should be eradicating all of the foxes not bandicoots.

[fishfinder]

plenty of bandicoots and a few possums can be found in our back yard at night also "apparently" no foxes over here.

[bobnrob]

The idiots (Greenies) trying to save James Price Point also decided to try and make false claims of their sightings while that whole debate was going on. There hasn't been a sitting up here for a few years now.

All the 'theorists' say there should be Koala's in the Deua NP. So every other year or so, the topic comes up in the local papers again 
Recently, an "expert" who's spent his academic life in Koala's came to the area after a local claimed he'd seen one. He and others spent 'round a month combing the bush looking...no signs at all, not even any droppings where there'd supposedly most likely be some. The "expert" left, saying he has no doubt there are some in the area, and he'll be back!
Other sign of the coin...the 'experts' say there are no wild pig out there, disregarding the fact of tracks, sightings, droppings and even shooting!

[noel_w]

We still have bandicoots around areas of the lake Brocky, so they are still wild.
Tjupurula

They must be fast ones that can get away are they TJ?

[Malcolm Tugless]

We have a few bandicoots around us, sadly found one in the pool few weeks ago.

   I have them in our garden at home, South of Hobart.
We can often see them at night with a torch.

To the trained eye, its quite obvious that the bandicoots wandering around at night with torches are the one's that don't fall into swimming pools.

But if the torches are of the flaming kind, its time to start making an exit strategy... nothing worse than an unruly lynch mob of bandicoots baying for blood.

[Mallory Black]

yes the little buggers
eats roots shoots and leaves... apparrently

[achjimmy]

Hi Jim
You could always send some of the possums tyhis way, I have eaten the possum meat before, and it is quite nice.
Regards
Tjupurula

Mate if you can beat my Cattledog to them your welcome, but i will stick to "Cattlemens cutlets". I love the wildlife around us, plenty of possums, few lyrebirds, swamp wallabies, ducks and now some Bandicoots.

[Marcus73]

Hi,
   I have them in our garden at home, South of Hobart.
We can often see them at night with a torch.


cheers

I'm gathering they'd only be little torches they're holding


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[Tjupurula]

They must be fast ones that can get away are they TJ?

I have never eaten Bandicoot that I can remember Noel, so have never tried to catch them.  Worth a thought though to try, I will find out if anyone has had them, no doubt someone would have.
Regards
Tjupurula

[jclures]

My grandfather always told me they tasted a bit like chicken, and only eat the rear half, as the front half had no meat.

[Andrew_C]

The little buggers keep getting in our cat traps and eating the cats KFC. Next thing you know, photos of a cat on outside of trap trying to get bandicoot safely trapped  on the inside.

Heaps of them around, even in the 2009 fire area.

[Tjupurula]

My grandfather always told me they tasted a bit like chicken, and only eat the rear half, as the front half had no meat.

I will find one in the not too distant future and try it, but I reckon like most other meat it will have its own taste.
Regards
Tjupurula