Monday 4 April 2016

An IMPORTANT message!!


 I have a VERY important message for all Aussies so I thought I should don my official uniform. Crikey Mr Chief Ranger, Sir ...... is it still my official uniform or will there be a change??
 I take my role as Australian Detective very seriously and as such I must pass on to all my fellow Australians, especially Sydneysiders this VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE!!!  Funnel Webs are on the march!!!!  These blokes are dangerous ....... AND deadly!!!!  They are marching all over the place at the moment. I need you to be very aware that they are out there. AND in there!!  They do go inside houses.  Dui and I will be doing all we can to keep you safe but you must keep your eyes open.  The main danger is to our humans as they are sloppy creatures and leave their clothes and shoes just anywhere.  These spider blokes just love to curl up in 'em and when a nice smelly foot is placed in one of those shoes or a piece of clothing is  put on ........ WHAMMO!! .... they attack and believe me, you don't want that to happen, aye??  So if you see your peeps clothes and shoes lying around bark 'em good.  The main danger for us blokes is our bed.  They have been known to crawl into our beds.  How the heck you're going to make your peeps shake your bed before you get into I have no idea but again I s'pose you just gotta bark 'em until they do or at least make 'em read this, aye?  Mum put a shirt on this morning and felt something crawling around inside it. She was sure it was a funnel web and her days were numbered.  She tried not to panic and removed the shirt VERY gingerly so as not to annoy whatever it was. A spider did drop to the ground.  Not a funnel web.  A little spider!!!  What a relief, aye??


So please all Aussies ....... take care. For all the two leggers .... check your shoes before you put 'em on and shake your clothes and if you do come across one of these blokes ....... don't kill 'em. Put 'em in a jar, VERY CAREFULLY! There is an easy way to do it. You can check it out HERE!!  Looks easy, aye??  It is.   Mum's done it and she doesn't like spiders AT ALL!!  Then ..... you can take them to a drop off point and the authorities will send them off to a laboratory where the venom will be milked from the spiders and made into an anti-venom to save anyone that might be bitten.  Pretty neat, aye?? As for us four leggers ..... leave 'em alone, aye??  Leave 'em for the cats.  They deserve all they get with their hissin' and spittin' and smacky paw. Not you Madi. You're nice. So's Travis, Crockett and even the french tart and Pipo and Minko and all the Blogville pussy cats. Well maybe not Weinie the Queenie but I'm sure someone loves her. I don't think you have funnel webs over your way though, aye??  Ok ....... all you Aussies ...... you got it?????? ......... be careful!!!!!!!!!  It's important.

Wanna run ... Love, Charlie.

26 comments:

  1. Yikes...growlmy was about to go to bed when she found your blog...and um...well she is going to have nightmares now...she is deadly afraid of spiders, no matter the size...but yikes, those are fearsome critters indeed.
    (years ago in her childhood, growlmy had spiders in her bed...shudder...twice.)

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    1. And she is happy to know we do not live anywhere close to where those uglies abide.

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    2. Mum really freaked when she had one crawling around in her shirt but she did take her shirt off very calmly. Once it fell out she deaded it quicker than I could dead a rabbit.

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    3. Boss-boy had a wasp inside his shirt when he was a toddler...and it stung him three times, OMD:(
      He was afraid to go outside for a long time after that.

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    4. Crikey ..... Poor Boss-boy!! I catch flies and eat 'em and we often get wasps inside our house. Mum's always terrified I'm going to catch one and get stung. So far, so good!!

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  2. Will warn the family thanks for the information.
    Merle...........

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  3. Oh Charlie, thank you, suddenly you have made us feel better about living in a land of endless damp and cold where the only insect threat is the merely irritating Highland midge…
    Toodle pip!
    Bertie.

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    1. BERTIE ... Struth mate ..... That's no way for an Ambassadog candidate to be talking. Keep it together, aye? Winter will end soon. Surely even in Scotland it gets warm occasionally.

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    2. Oooops. Thanks for the reminder Charlie. And for the lengthy and most generous reference! And guess what? It was almost sunny here today. And the midges don't arrive until May at the earliest. And you don't even get them on the East coast...

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    3. You get midges?? I thought they only happened in hot places. We call 'em midgies! At least that's what I'm guessing. Midgies are sand flies that bite like you wouldn't believe. Is that what midges are?

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  4. SPIDERS!!!! Arrghhhhhh....
    *Leah runs screaming from the room*
    This Princess is SCARED of spiders...yes really, hehe
    Loves and licky kisses
    Princess Leah xxx

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  5. Hari OM
    Crikey Charlie mate... that spider in mum's shirt might have been the common black house spider (still bites) or a white-tail... (very nasty bite - trust me, I know)... and both of those are more likely to be in clothes than the funnel web - which tends to keep outside the house. Still and all - a very necessary warning I would say - well done for keeping a watch out!!!

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  6. Your poor mum, Charlie! She must be sporting a few more white hairs! Spiders are so ugly!

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  7. Scary critters they are, we are a long way away, hope we don't get them here.

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  8. we were just reading they have found a new sub species of the funnel web - it is a lot larger and a brown color

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  9. Oh dear me Charlie - u'll stay safe an'away frum thoze nasty thingz, Mom haz a nephew an'hiz family who live over there sumwhere (not shure where) - hiz wife iza native Aussie butt hopefully they stay safe tue. The authoritiez shood go out an'due a round-up of'em. In the meantime, just keep'em there.
    Lady Shasta'n Angel Lord Shiloh of Beaglebratz Manor

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  10. that is scary... please officer charlie make sure that they will not make it over the pond... they can't swim or can they? please say no :o)

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  11. Yikes!!! We feel safe with you guys around
    Lily & Edward

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  12. EEEEK!!!! Great PSA Charlie, we get lots of spiders here, but luckily most are not dangerous!
    Smileys!
    Dory, Jakey, Arty & Bilbo

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  13. An impawtent post fur sure! Glad you are spreading the word!

    Your Pals,

    Murphy & Stanley

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  14. Oh Yikes - you just our mom the heebie jeebies - she HATES spiders
    hugs
    Mr Bailey, Hazel & Mabel

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  15. Yikes, those little buggers are scary - chase them away from you and Dui, but don't send them HERE!!!

    Woos - Ciara and Lightning

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  16. CRIKEY Charlie... THAT is Scary... We are glad that those thingys don't live around HERE.
    Maybe if you could get some SNOW and put it around it would get RID of those nasty guys.

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  17. Yuck and scary all at once. Thanks for the PSA!

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  18. Thats the biggest little spider we ever saw!

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  19. That's a good warning, Charlie. Glad we don't have any majorly poisonous spiders around here.

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