# We have a wombat sitting in our backyard **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623 "2011-08-13T23:21:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/21 "2011-08-14T05:09:04Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > [Digger?](http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=3) Is that you? That’s a good comic. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/22 "2011-08-14T06:12:24Z")
Picrures, or it didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/23 "2011-08-14T06:58:34Z")
She’s probably waiting for some carrots. And rolled oats. ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/24 "2011-08-14T07:41:58Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > But no snakes, wombats, foxes, echidnas, or kangaroos. Chalk me up for one kangaroo in yard, two in street. Where I live [looks like this](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Page,+Australian+Capital+Territory,+Australia&hl=en&sll=-35.31883,149.149423&sspn=0.048883,0.077162&t=h&z=15), so not a bad effort from Skippy(s). ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/25 "2011-08-14T08:00:07Z")
Are you complaining or bragging? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/26 "2011-08-14T22:50:49Z")
Mum rang me last night at about 6.30pm to say that the wombat had wandered off into the bush, presumably on its way back to its burrow. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/27 "2011-08-15T03:04:43Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > [Digger?](http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=3) Is that you? Damn. I was going to make that joke. Good comic. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/28 "2011-08-15T04:29:20Z")
Shine a BB off its butt. Jesus, does nobody get taught how to deal with wildlife anymore? Rule 1: You dust the ass of a larger creature with rock salt from your shotgun. Rule 2: Smaller creatures can be reminded they don’t live there with a round from a cheap, “You’ll put yer eye out, kid,” BB gun. I fear for our next generation. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/29 "2011-08-15T06:55:55Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Shine a BB off its butt. Jesus, does nobody get taught how to deal with wildlife anymore? > > Rule 1: You dust the ass of a larger creature with rock salt from your shotgun. > > Rule 2: Smaller creatures can be reminded they don’t live there with a round from a cheap, “You’ll put yer eye out, kid,” BB gun. > > I fear for our next generation. There was nothing to ‘deal’ with. Having a wombat sitting placidly in the garden didn’t worry us greatly. We were more concerned that it could have been sick or injured. And wombats are a protected native species, so we couldn’t have used a gun on it even if we’d had one (which we didn’t). ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/30 "2011-08-15T22:10:27Z")
**Cunctator**! It was a _sign!_ You are destined to become a costumed vigilante, & fight crime under the name of Wombatman! ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/31 "2011-08-16T17:59:41Z")
Wombats are the cutest things on this green earth. I loves me some wombats. I understand they’re more cuddly when young, rather standoffish and crotchety when they get older. Still, so so very cute. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/32 "2011-08-16T18:04:56Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > I understand they’re more cuddly when young, rather standoffish and crotchety when they get older. Crotchety? Humph. Get off my lawn. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/33 "2011-08-18T00:42:50Z")
Maybe he was waiting for you to come out and play. Or trying to steal your laundry. Either one is possible. ---
**Author:** ![DaveEn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@DaveEn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveEn)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-wombat-sitting-in-our-backyard/592623/34 "2011-08-18T09:42:45Z")
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