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Katie spoke with the owner of Banjo, the dog bitten by a croc in Casuarina · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Well, if you were listening to the show after eleven
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  Speaker 1: o'clock yesterday, you would have heard here on the show,
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  Speaker 1: well that a crocodile had attacked a little staffy down
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  Speaker 1: at the Dripstone Cliffs just there at the beach at Casuarina.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty horrifying stuff to hear from Parks and
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  Speaker 1: Wildlife about exactly what had gone on. But joining me
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  Speaker 1: right now is the owner of that staffy, Banjo.
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  Speaker 2: It is Tom Cummins. Good morning to you, Tom.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Tom.
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  Speaker 2: What happened with Banjo yesterday morning?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're just going for a normal, normal walk down
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  Speaker 3: the beach and sort of on the way back, he
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  Speaker 3: went for a bit of a paddle, like knee deep water,
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  Speaker 3: and he went to a bit of a paddle and
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  Speaker 3: thy sure, I had a yelp, and the crocodile had
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  Speaker 3: a minute mark and it just happened in an instance,
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  Speaker 3: and he must have thought it was a dog or
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  Speaker 3: something attacking, so he just turned around and bit the crocodile,
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  Speaker 3: and the crocodile let go.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: Well he came to the came back to the shore
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  Speaker 3: and he was looking back. I don't wanted to go
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  Speaker 3: back and have another go or not, you know, but
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  Speaker 3: the crocodile can't go away. It was just floating away there.
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  Speaker 1: Tom had Banjo run towards the crocodile or or what happened.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was an active sight. I think he
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  Speaker 3: went in the water and the crocodile just happened to
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  Speaker 3: be there, you know, But not one hundred percent sure that.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it was quite a nice looking like a
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  Speaker 3: salted looking crocodile, and was a dark crocodile like you
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  Speaker 3: see in the rivers and creeks, you know. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: any idea was a good looking crocodile.
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  Speaker 1: Would be better looking if it stied away from your
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  Speaker 1: dog though, Tom, Yeah, anydy do you have?
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  Speaker 3: After that, he just we carried on walking and we
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  Speaker 3: we crossed the bridge at Rapid Creek. He came back
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  Speaker 3: to Rapid cree and went to swim and Rapid Creek
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  Speaker 3: because it was a little and uh then I got
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  Speaker 3: a closer look at him and I put him in
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  Speaker 3: the veggles to drive him home. I could say, these guys,
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  Speaker 3: they're pretty bad. So we took him down to the
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  Speaker 3: vet tasmin Chin. He's a very good vet and.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's where I go to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and what did Tasman say? What was he you know, like,
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  Speaker 2: what was the reaction from your vet?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know we were sort of first inime. We
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  Speaker 3: sort of jumped a q a bit and uh, he
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  Speaker 3: was he looked at it and he was quite amazed
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  Speaker 3: that he got away with it so much. But I
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  Speaker 3: think it was the pressure of its jawels too around him.
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  Speaker 3: He was his bruised underneath. On the top he's got
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  Speaker 3: some lacerations, but underneath, And Tuzan said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if the if we shave him and stitch him up
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  Speaker 3: and whatever else, there's more than age of getting in
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  Speaker 3: section by doing that and leaving the wounds open around
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  Speaker 3: let him, let him heal, you know. So yeah, oh, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Always girlfriends, you know, it's plenty of frightening tom Any idea.
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  Speaker 2: How big that crocodile was regular three meters?
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  Speaker 3: I know the rangers said it could have only been
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  Speaker 3: two meters, but the rangers aren't there. Yeah, regre was
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  Speaker 3: three meters, but it was a must of this sort
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  Speaker 3: of a really broad crocoders a fairly similar and the
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  Speaker 3: seagoing crocodiles probably been pushed out from wherever it may
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  Speaker 3: be around this time of the year, the fairly active
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  Speaker 3: only Tom, what.
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  Speaker 1: Was going through your head when you were walking and
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  Speaker 1: you see this crocodile lunch at your staffy Banjo?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Katie has not a lockcows from my head at
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  Speaker 3: the best of times. But it was it was without thinking,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. It's just it all happened
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  Speaker 3: in a flash. Really, I probably would have even the
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  Speaker 3: nose except to give a bit of a yelp, and
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  Speaker 3: I grabbed hold of him, and yeah, I looked in
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  Speaker 3: and then it was all over. Within thirty seconds. He
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  Speaker 3: bit back and it let go, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, a tough, tough What a morning fight? What
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  Speaker 2: a morning walk? Were you just thinking to yourself? Goodness mate,
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  Speaker 2: thank god we're all okay, they say, not a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot calls from my mind of the best. So I
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  Speaker 3: just we just carried on as normal. But he comes
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  Speaker 3: from the he was born down the Daily River, crocodile
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  Speaker 3: wranglings in his blood, you know. So we got him
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  Speaker 3: from a fisherman down the Daily he uh five years
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  Speaker 3: he's five years old now and we're going from a
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  Speaker 3: fisherman down there. So yeah, he's he's a pretty easy
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  Speaker 3: going dog. But this other dog sort of upseting me.
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  Speaker 3: Can be that way, but he loves humans. As a
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  Speaker 3: cameraman this morning from This is Today show came here,
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  Speaker 3: yeah and yeah, the cameraman was busy with his camera
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  Speaker 3: on his Shouldren banger de side to the humpy's leg.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Cah, Banjo sounds like an absolute legend, and now
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  Speaker 1: that he's famous, he's going to get up to no
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  Speaker 1: good on By the sounds.
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  Speaker 3: Of it, well, surprising old yesterday he just stot up old, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: they couldn't lie down because they said down couldn't do anything.
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  Speaker 3: And this morning when as the camera a little bout
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  Speaker 3: the fine form this morning.
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  Speaker 2: He was feeling frisky by the sounds of.
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  Speaker 3: Ash, He's pick up a lot of girl.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, Well, Tom, this is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: first for me. I've never awarded the Territory and of
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  Speaker 1: the Week to a dog before. But I've got a
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  Speaker 1: gourmet meat tray thanks to Glenn LZ H. Butcher's and
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  Speaker 1: I reckon it's got yours and Banjo's name on us.
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  Speaker 3: Some crocodile for a bit of a revenge.
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  Speaker 1: Well, speak to Glenn and see what he can do
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  Speaker 1: for you, but look, we've got your details. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: back in contact with you and make sure that you
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  Speaker 1: get your hands on that beautiful meat tray.
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  Speaker 2: All the best to you and all the best to
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  Speaker 2: Banjo as.
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  Speaker 1: Telling him to stay away from those those cameramen from
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  Speaker 1: Channel nine.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you, Tom. Thanks mate,