Birds, normal everyday Thrushes, sparrows and seagulls.
Next might be cats, the furry sort, then spiders, then snails.
We don't really have 'pest' animals in NZ, theres no poisonous spiders unless you search for them in remote places. Except Possums, they got introduced from Australia and live in trees in native forest and sometimes trees around the edge of towns.They are considered a proper 'Pest'. We can trap then and sell the skins but most possum huters just pluck he long fur off them. Its worth good money.
It never freezes and is warm and mixes with wool for quality clothing material.
Theres no snakes at all, no racoons, skunks or other marmosets, or other wild livestock.(no goats or deer unless its on a farm, then you can include sheep and cows too)
We do get spiders that are 'largeish' but not as big as they have in Australia(HUGE!! Dinner plate size!).
I pick them out and give them a new home, sometimes they are protecting their ball of tiny spiders, nest I guess.
I move that and put the spider with it.
In two cases I have seen crockroaches, ugggghh. We have native ones, really tiny things but gross. We never have them in houses, they live in 'bush', trees and such.
Never see ants except on the edge of concrete paths and you have to look for them, tiny ants too, no 'biters' at all.
NZ is pretty safe, the only thing thats going to bite you except pet dogs is sandflys, I might see 2 or 3 on a hot day as I'm close to the coast.. No mozzies at all, they only come out at night anyway, in native forests. Billions of sandflys in native forest areas though.
Yeah, so Birds, then pet cats...
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