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Is it legal to own an anteater?

I had a bull ant nest in my back yard once. You could not set two feet out in the yard without wearing shoes. Those things are very painful and the pain keeps increasing over time. I tried to kill it, I was pouring boiling water on it every single day. I couldn't set fire to it because it was bush fire season. The nest was massive. Thousands of the things were pouring out of it and into it all the time.

Then one day I had an echidna in my yard. It stayed there for 3 or 4 days. It ate ALL THE BULL ANTS. The nest was demolished. They never returned.
 
I had a bull ant nest in my back yard once. You could not set two feet out in the yard without wearing shoes. Those things are very painful and the pain keeps increasing over time. I tried to kill it, I was pouring boiling water on it every single day. I couldn't set fire to it because it was bush fire season. The nest was massive. Thousands of the things were pouring out of it and into it all the time.

Then one day I had an echidna in my yard. It stayed there for 3 or 4 days. It ate ALL THE BULL ANTS. The nest was demolished. They never returned.

Let's hear it for the egg-laying hedgehog! :)
 
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I had a bull ant nest in my back yard once. You could not set two feet out in the yard without wearing shoes. Those things are very painful and the pain keeps increasing over time. I tried to kill it, I was pouring boiling water on it every single day. I couldn't set fire to it because it was bush fire season. The nest was massive. Thousands of the things were pouring out of it and into it all the time.

Then one day I had an echidna in my yard. It stayed there for 3 or 4 days. It ate ALL THE BULL ANTS. The nest was demolished. They never returned.

Let's hear it for the egg-laying hedgehog! :)

another monotreme? cool!
 
I had a bull ant nest in my back yard once. You could not set two feet out in the yard without wearing shoes. Those things are very painful and the pain keeps increasing over time. I tried to kill it, I was pouring boiling water on it every single day. I couldn't set fire to it because it was bush fire season. The nest was massive. Thousands of the things were pouring out of it and into it all the time.

Then one day I had an echidna in my yard. It stayed there for 3 or 4 days. It ate ALL THE BULL ANTS. The nest was demolished. They never returned.

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"Damn skippy."​
 
I once sat down on a bullant nest when I was 4 years old and I was bitten about 40 times. It is my earliest, clear childhood memory.

We once had an echidna in my backyard. I was all for leaving in alone but one of my visitors decided it needed to be moved back to the bush. She approached it and it start to burrow into the ground but my friend wouldn't take that as a hint to leave it alone. As she lifted it, I told her to look out because it would probably pee on her. It did and it really, really smelt bad.
 
Salvador Dali had a pet anteater.
Well, he would.

. . . Like most exotic pets, They require huge upkeep. On A side note, They Love Cheese Wiz. Who woulda thought?
Sure. They must get bored eating nothing but ants for breakfast, ants for lunch, ants for dinner.

Mrs. Anteater: “But I thought you liked ants!”

Mr. Anteater: “Of course I like ants, dear. But, well . . . couldn’t we have termites just once in a while?”
 
IIRC, it was an aardvark and it sounded like Jackie Mason and the ant was a Dean Martin impression.

I like that there's someplace where having an echinda in your backyard is no big deal.
 
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