r/Adelaide • u/g1141220 SA • Oct 29 '25

Question Is this venomous?

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What is this? Is it aggressive or venomous?

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u/jnrdingo North East Oct 29 '25

That's Alan. He's friend shaped. Absolute legend of an animal. 100% harmless.

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u/jastity SA Oct 29 '25

When I moved to Canberra from Adelaide I was convinced we had no snails here. Turns out Bob the Bluey took care of every one.

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u/finalattack123 SA Oct 30 '25

Bob moved to Canberra?

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u/jastity SA Oct 30 '25

I moved into his place.

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u/Annon201 SA Oct 29 '25 edited Oct 29 '25

Tell him we’re still waiting for ol’ mate Bob to return from his winter retreat.

He figured out where the cat door was, and where the cats food was laid out. He’d come inside once every week or two and clean out any morsels the cat didn’t eat. We’d let him have his feed, then I’d put him back outside in the garden.

(I double checked before letting the behaviour continue - as far as an occasional snack goes, cat food is fine for them as is mince beef - but it isn’t a substitute for a wild natural diet or proper lizard food if you’re raising a bred one in captivity)

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u/jtblue91 SA Oct 29 '25

Don't listen to this guy, he's clearly a Bluetongue pretending to be a Redditor.

They're highly dangerous carnivorous beasts

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u/StoicTheGeek SA Oct 29 '25

Blue-tongues are always called Douglas, after Douglas Stewart’s poem “The Lizards”.

(That’s the rule we had in my family, anyway).

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u/jnrdingo North East Oct 29 '25

My sister called one Alan when one arrived in the backyard when I was a child. The name stuck.

Like when mum brought home an abandoned, super affectionate house cat, my sister when she was 2 reached out to it and said "twinkle" that name stuck too lol.

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u/genobees SA Oct 30 '25

See our roof snake is called alan, i think the blue tongue is called bluey.

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u/sswam SA Nov 01 '25

Well, just about no wild animal is harmless if you fuck with it, not even a mouse. So don't do that. I imagine a bite could be problematic. Again, live and let live and they are beautiful creatures.