MINI: Chased By An Animal
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
After an amazing email yesterday about being chased by dingo over a ham sandwich we're looking for more of your stories about being chased by an animal.
Nothing we ever cover on the show gets completely left behind, if you have a chased by an animal story email us: christian@christianoconnell.com.au
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| 0:00.0 | IHart Podcasts. You can hear more. Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist and listen live on the free IHart app. |
| 0:09.2 | Got anything good? |
| 0:11.1 | Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:18.9 | It's Australia. There must be millions of stories waiting to be heard. |
| 0:24.1 | There's no country that has more dangerous animals than Australia, |
| 0:28.7 | whether they're waiting for us in the sea or on land or above us. |
| 0:33.1 | Even the magpies here are vicious bastards, you know? |
| 0:36.9 | So, chased by an animal animal the reason i'm doing this |
| 0:40.2 | i got a great email yesterday for one of you uh christian a friend of mine cycled around australia |
| 0:45.1 | and during one of his stretches he was chased by a dingo the wanted his ham sandwich we were |
| 0:51.4 | talking earlier you know the dingo might have thought it was a club sandwich. |
| 0:54.4 | Go, my God, you don't see one of those outside of a hotel menu. |
| 0:58.1 | The one in the wild, I'm having that. |
| 1:00.4 | Make sure you take the tooth to get. |
| 1:02.2 | So we want your stories of animal, if you've been chased by an animal, 13, 55, 22. |
| 1:09.7 | In between all the fun lockdowns when there was like a brief respite, me and the family went over to Hobart and we hired a car. Hobart beautiful place. It's been a couple of times now. And we drove for an hour outside of Hobart to go to a wildlife sanctuary. It looked beautiful. When we were there, one of the handlers, you know, my wife said, oh, I saw on the |
| 1:27.9 | photo on the way in, you've got wombats. The kids really want to see wombats. We're English. We've never seen a wombat. He goes, we do have a wombat. It's asleep at the moment, and it's a teenager. So I could go and sort of wake it up, but it gets really grumpy. And of course, my wife doesn't take no finance. |
| 1:25.0 | I was like, |
| 1:25.3 | don't worry about that. |
| 1:26.2 | And the kids were like pushing my mum, and she went, go and wake it up. Right? This wombat car, literally like a teenager. The keeper says, now, listen, you know, they are friendly animals. They don't go if you, but just please sit down and don't make any big moves or anything like that. |
| 2:03.0 | So we all set down, the wombat is grumpy ass, look at Womba, it's released. |
| 2:08.6 | For no, I'll share the photo in a minute. |
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