May 6, 2025 • 11 mins
Rach took her kids on an outing to Billabong Santuary in Townsville but didn't tell them until they were there that it was actually all about her, so move over, kids! And Rach reveals an obsession that blew Katie's mind!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Aposha Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am I
A Bad Mom?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Podcast?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Am I A Bad Mom? Am I a Bad pet Owner?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We did question your pet owning seals over the weekend
when your poor cat was a bit unwell.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Cat Orgie was not eating, which is like, so not
like him.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, I was like to give context to this cat.
You've had my brother house sit. You've had two other
friends of mine house sit, like, all at different times,
and they've all gone.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
This cat is wild. He's so food driven. It's wild.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
And also me like I've had cats my whole life,
I've never seen a cat manage to do what Orgie
has done in order to source out food.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
He is wild.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
He can climb up the whole off the front of
the fridge and then he uses his paw. And the
reason I put the pet food in the cupboards above
the fridge is because I was like, no one's getting
He then uses his paw to open the cupboard and
then help himself. I've even put gaffer tape on that cupboard.
(01:29):
Yeah he peels it off. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I was going to say, this is after the cupboards
have also been stuck down, and not only that, when
you just say, climb the front of the fridge. There
are no places for him to stand on.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
No, it's mine.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Strength is very impressive.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
He literally hangs an order to try and chew off
this tape and then open. I've never seen anything like it,
but anyway, it was a bit sick on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
We've got our bread bin nailed to the shelf in
the pantry. That's how extreme this is. So this cat
stops eating, I give it a couple of days. Jay's like,
we need to take him to the vet. I'm like,
do you go to the doctors when you just got
tommy ache for a couple of days. No, wait, it's
fucking expensive. It was the weekend to long story shore.
(02:17):
He gets worse, is not drinking or eating anything for
like three days. So we take them to the emergency vet.
If you're ever encouraging your kids what to do when
they grow up, how to you know, make a lot
of money get them to be a vet because seriously
so expensive it is wild. So anyway, two grand that
(02:37):
weekend on the emergency vet to find out what's wrong.
Just to find out what's so the ultrasound and whatever
else be done. Six hundred dollars a night.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Rage.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I'm like, I could stay at.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
There Hilton, Yeah, six hundred dollars or less than that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Half the price. Anyway, he's got twisted bowls and the
two options worth three hundred dollars and put him down
five thousand dollars six it to operate. Oh god, it's
such a hard one.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I know he's two years old.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Felt really mean, just weighing it up, and then in
the end I was like, how can I go there? Yeah,
and let them inject him and kill him because I
don't want to spend the money on them. Yes, so
he's had the operation. We're now living in a tent.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Am I a bad mum for not sharing and not caring.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
This is just a super it's a fun one. It's
a quick one. I thought of you when I was
doing this. But I also, like, you know, I had
a bit of a giggle, was like, bucket I don't care,
like I've had a bucket list thing Like. It wasn't
a bucket list I have to do with my kids.
It was just a bucket list thing for me to do.
Near cat Mana. Do you remember the Jocko There was
(04:04):
a dock documentary used to be on TV and it's
called me a cat manor I'm sure someone out there
will remember it. Anyways, I was the cats all about
mewcats obsessed and I watched it and I just loved it.
I loved their little family dynamics, and I loved how
they like one watches and then the rest are over
there partying like it's big family. Like I just loved it. Right,
(04:26):
this is a documentary about meer cats. So then we
fast forward going into school holidays. I have some work
in Townsville, so we all go up there and it
happens to include a near cat experience, So a near
cat experience. Finally, I've wanted to do this for so long.
(04:49):
Every time I go to a Mischelle Yep at Billabong
Sanctuary in Townsville, I take my kids.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Meerkats aren't Australian though, are they?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
But there's so much fun and I was like, I
just want to I want to take one home.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I just want to keep one. And and you know,
like they so.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Question are they in the cat family? Meacats, meer cats?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah I do.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You're a crazy cat lady. Yeah, but these are more
fun than cats more so I knew that this was
coming up right like, and I was so excited.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So we're off. We go to Bill Bong Sanctuary.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Now, Katie, just to give you some context, Bill Bok
Sanctuary I used to go to all my school excursions
in Townsville and.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It's still going forty years, operated by the same people.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Because people will love meercats.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Like they love Billbong Sanctuary. They love crocodiles in far
North Queensland, and that's what's there. There's so many things,
but this meercat experience. I was like, what who knows
about my obsession with meercats, Like this is wild.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Anyway we get into this meccaut experience. I was trying
to just like play a cool.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I was just trying to be like okay and doing
this with my girls, like this is fun, like I
love it. And then you know, like they were getting
closer and the ranger goes, are we ready for the
meercat experience? My girls were like yes, We're so excited,
and then I had this moment of going, no, this
is not about you, No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
This is not about you girls, this is about me.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
We get into this enclosure and the lady was like, okay,
so with this, like we just go in and see
that log there, we just sit down on the log
and before we feed them, they will come up and
they will scurry around you and climb all over you
and do all.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
This, but you just have to sit still. And Elsie
was in there. I was liked, friend is in like.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Prime position in my spot.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, in the best spot.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And I was like, sorry, when did this become about you?
I usually am the one that takes the back seat
because I'm like, no, no, it's kids, and like, let
them go.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
They'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I'll just kick up them and be at the front.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Let them have the I'll just pick up the scraps
at the back. It's totally fine.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And I genuinely love seeing them love those sorts of experiences.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Because like experiences, you just that's ship.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You just can't put money like, they're so cool and
they can be lifelong things that you'll remember anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Oh, may Sits the meddle takes my spot. I was like, ah,
excuse me.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
No move Gracy sits further up the log. So there
I am like sitting on the end of the log
like scrunched over. But this like little part of me
came out of like what if they don't come near me?
What if they just sit on my kids for the
whole time. I'll literally get them removed. Not the meer cats,
the kids. It was so funny, Katie. When I went
(07:33):
back over my photos and the videos, it was so funny.
They didn't go near Grace. They would sort of go
near Grace and then just move past Grace. They'd go
on to Elsie have a little look around. I ended
up with these meer cats. There was four of them
at one stage, and this other one was doing this
like crime position on my shoulder. It was the best
(07:55):
thing ever. But then my kids.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Are sitting there with no meercats. I'm giving me grief
because they liked me.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
More less Ranger or whoever it was here, you tell
the kids to move out of your sport.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I went back through all my videos because I thought,
surely someone's captured me being like a child about it
and saying, oh, move along, like give me some room.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
This is about me.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I'm the one that likes me, acay move along.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And so I was like, no, this is about me.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I give you kids everything, but this one moment is
about me, so if they don't go near you, I
don't care.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
When we started to feed them, it was different than
they started to like all over us. But this one
particular one, I was like, oh my gosh, it just
wouldn't leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
He was just obsessed with me.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
And then I moved over to there and he followed
me over there, and I was like, I think I'm
going to take it.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I think I'm just going to try that.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Knew that you're obsession with me.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It's not so funny that a We ended up at
Billibong Sanctuary, where I used to go on school excursions,
the day before my fortieth in Townsville, where I obviously
spent most of my teenage years growing up. And then
I fed a croc, the largest croc in Queensland. I
fed it, fed a croc, sat with some mere cats
(09:16):
and hung out.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
What we didn't know at that time was that had
Elsie had stayed in your spot in the mere cat enclosure,
you would have fed her to the croc.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I would have fed her, honestly, Katie.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
There was like all of these things and I was like,
y'all do it, yep, I want to do it yep,
it's about me.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Move over, move over. I'd never do that.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And then we get to the last thing, and it's
the very last thing, which is where you show Karma
is a bit and it's like this big pond and
we'd walk past it before and the girls had said
to the range, can we please feed the turtles, like
they're just free range turtles, so just they're not locked up,
We're not going into an enclosure. There was so many, Katie,
it was so overwhelming for me. Anyway, the ranger goes, yeah, no,
rose old radio, some food in and I'm thinking, oh,
(10:01):
like maybe breadcrumbs or something I don't know, and then
brain just brings out a whole box and it's like
fish skin, fish skin, so it was like smelly, it
was gross. It was all the rest and I looked
at it as I went, I'm tapping out of this one.
Go for gold, use up all your lives on this one,
because I'm not interested. They do not make me go wow,
I want to feed them, honestly, Okay, you were standing
(10:21):
on the banks and then all it was like an
apocalypse of zombie turtles coming out of the water, and
the girls are like, eh, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Throwing them fish skin, and then they're like. I was like,
oh my god, this is so weird.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
And I had sneakers on, and I'm going, that's fine,
or just stand here because they're turtles, even though they
look like zombie turtles, they're not going to touch me
because I've got I'm standing, i got sneakers on. I'm
totally like, I'm just standing there. So I'm just standing
there and watching the kids feed them the skins. Gross,
And then all of a sudden, I was like, what
is that thing doing? Why is it coming so close
to me? It comes up and latches on to my
(10:58):
ankle bites me so hard that both of my girls
turn around and burst out laughing because I'm like, oh
my god, the turtle, the zombie ter has bit me
and it left such a welt. And they're like, well,
see that's why, because you wouldn't share in the mere cats.
I'm gonna kick the turtle and then I'm gonna throw
(11:18):
you into the croc and then I'm going home because
I'm forty and I can.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yes, this day has been beat about me. What the
fuck
Aposha Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am I
A Bad Mom?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Podcast?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Am I A Bad Mom? Am I a Bad pet Owner?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We did question your pet owning seals over the weekend
when your poor cat was a bit unwell.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Cat Orgie was not eating, which is like, so not
like him.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, I was like to give context to this cat.
You've had my brother house sit. You've had two other
friends of mine house sit, like, all at different times,
and they've all gone.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
This cat is wild. He's so food driven. It's wild.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
And also me like I've had cats my whole life,
I've never seen a cat manage to do what Orgie
has done in order to source out food.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
He is wild.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
He can climb up the whole off the front of
the fridge and then he uses his paw. And the
reason I put the pet food in the cupboards above
the fridge is because I was like, no one's getting
He then uses his paw to open the cupboard and
then help himself. I've even put gaffer tape on that cupboard.
(01:29):
Yeah he peels it off. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I was going to say, this is after the cupboards
have also been stuck down, and not only that, when
you just say, climb the front of the fridge. There
are no places for him to stand on.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
No, it's mine.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Strength is very impressive.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
He literally hangs an order to try and chew off
this tape and then open. I've never seen anything like it,
but anyway, it was a bit sick on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
We've got our bread bin nailed to the shelf in
the pantry. That's how extreme this is. So this cat
stops eating, I give it a couple of days. Jay's like,
we need to take him to the vet. I'm like,
do you go to the doctors when you just got
tommy ache for a couple of days. No, wait, it's
fucking expensive. It was the weekend to long story shore.
(02:17):
He gets worse, is not drinking or eating anything for
like three days. So we take them to the emergency vet.
If you're ever encouraging your kids what to do when
they grow up, how to you know, make a lot
of money get them to be a vet because seriously
so expensive it is wild. So anyway, two grand that
(02:37):
weekend on the emergency vet to find out what's wrong.
Just to find out what's so the ultrasound and whatever
else be done. Six hundred dollars a night.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Rage.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I'm like, I could stay at.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
There Hilton, Yeah, six hundred dollars or less than that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Half the price. Anyway, he's got twisted bowls and the
two options worth three hundred dollars and put him down
five thousand dollars six it to operate. Oh god, it's
such a hard one.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I know he's two years old.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Felt really mean, just weighing it up, and then in
the end I was like, how can I go there? Yeah,
and let them inject him and kill him because I
don't want to spend the money on them. Yes, so
he's had the operation. We're now living in a tent.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Am I a bad mum for not sharing and not caring.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
This is just a super it's a fun one. It's
a quick one. I thought of you when I was
doing this. But I also, like, you know, I had
a bit of a giggle, was like, bucket I don't care,
like I've had a bucket list thing Like. It wasn't
a bucket list I have to do with my kids.
It was just a bucket list thing for me to do.
Near cat Mana. Do you remember the Jocko There was
(04:04):
a dock documentary used to be on TV and it's
called me a cat manor I'm sure someone out there
will remember it. Anyways, I was the cats all about
mewcats obsessed and I watched it and I just loved it.
I loved their little family dynamics, and I loved how
they like one watches and then the rest are over
there partying like it's big family. Like I just loved it. Right,
(04:26):
this is a documentary about meer cats. So then we
fast forward going into school holidays. I have some work
in Townsville, so we all go up there and it
happens to include a near cat experience, So a near
cat experience. Finally, I've wanted to do this for so long.
(04:49):
Every time I go to a Mischelle Yep at Billabong
Sanctuary in Townsville, I take my kids.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Meerkats aren't Australian though, are they?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
But there's so much fun and I was like, I
just want to I want to take one home.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I just want to keep one. And and you know,
like they so.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Question are they in the cat family? Meacats, meer cats?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah I do.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You're a crazy cat lady. Yeah, but these are more
fun than cats more so I knew that this was
coming up right like, and I was so excited.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So we're off. We go to Bill Bong Sanctuary.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Now, Katie, just to give you some context, Bill Bok
Sanctuary I used to go to all my school excursions
in Townsville and.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It's still going forty years, operated by the same people.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Because people will love meercats.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Like they love Billbong Sanctuary. They love crocodiles in far
North Queensland, and that's what's there. There's so many things,
but this meercat experience. I was like, what who knows
about my obsession with meercats, Like this is wild.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Anyway we get into this meccaut experience. I was trying
to just like play a cool.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I was just trying to be like okay and doing
this with my girls, like this is fun, like I
love it. And then you know, like they were getting
closer and the ranger goes, are we ready for the
meercat experience? My girls were like yes, We're so excited,
and then I had this moment of going, no, this
is not about you, No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
This is not about you girls, this is about me.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
We get into this enclosure and the lady was like, okay,
so with this, like we just go in and see
that log there, we just sit down on the log
and before we feed them, they will come up and
they will scurry around you and climb all over you
and do all.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
This, but you just have to sit still. And Elsie
was in there. I was liked, friend is in like.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Prime position in my spot.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, in the best spot.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And I was like, sorry, when did this become about you?
I usually am the one that takes the back seat
because I'm like, no, no, it's kids, and like, let
them go.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
They'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I'll just kick up them and be at the front.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Let them have the I'll just pick up the scraps
at the back. It's totally fine.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And I genuinely love seeing them love those sorts of experiences.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Because like experiences, you just that's ship.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You just can't put money like, they're so cool and
they can be lifelong things that you'll remember anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Oh, may Sits the meddle takes my spot. I was like, ah,
excuse me.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
No move Gracy sits further up the log. So there
I am like sitting on the end of the log
like scrunched over. But this like little part of me
came out of like what if they don't come near me?
What if they just sit on my kids for the
whole time. I'll literally get them removed. Not the meer cats,
the kids. It was so funny, Katie. When I went
(07:33):
back over my photos and the videos, it was so funny.
They didn't go near Grace. They would sort of go
near Grace and then just move past Grace. They'd go
on to Elsie have a little look around. I ended
up with these meer cats. There was four of them
at one stage, and this other one was doing this
like crime position on my shoulder. It was the best
(07:55):
thing ever. But then my kids.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Are sitting there with no meercats. I'm giving me grief
because they liked me.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
More less Ranger or whoever it was here, you tell
the kids to move out of your sport.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I went back through all my videos because I thought,
surely someone's captured me being like a child about it
and saying, oh, move along, like give me some room.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
This is about me.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I'm the one that likes me, acay move along.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And so I was like, no, this is about me.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I give you kids everything, but this one moment is
about me, so if they don't go near you, I
don't care.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
When we started to feed them, it was different than
they started to like all over us. But this one
particular one, I was like, oh my gosh, it just
wouldn't leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
He was just obsessed with me.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
And then I moved over to there and he followed
me over there, and I was like, I think I'm
going to take it.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I think I'm just going to try that.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Knew that you're obsession with me.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It's not so funny that a We ended up at
Billibong Sanctuary, where I used to go on school excursions,
the day before my fortieth in Townsville, where I obviously
spent most of my teenage years growing up. And then
I fed a croc, the largest croc in Queensland. I
fed it, fed a croc, sat with some mere cats
(09:16):
and hung out.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
What we didn't know at that time was that had
Elsie had stayed in your spot in the mere cat enclosure,
you would have fed her to the croc.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I would have fed her, honestly, Katie.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
There was like all of these things and I was like,
y'all do it, yep, I want to do it yep,
it's about me.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Move over, move over. I'd never do that.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And then we get to the last thing, and it's
the very last thing, which is where you show Karma
is a bit and it's like this big pond and
we'd walk past it before and the girls had said
to the range, can we please feed the turtles, like
they're just free range turtles, so just they're not locked up,
We're not going into an enclosure. There was so many, Katie,
it was so overwhelming for me. Anyway, the ranger goes, yeah, no,
rose old radio, some food in and I'm thinking, oh,
(10:01):
like maybe breadcrumbs or something I don't know, and then
brain just brings out a whole box and it's like
fish skin, fish skin, so it was like smelly, it
was gross. It was all the rest and I looked
at it as I went, I'm tapping out of this one.
Go for gold, use up all your lives on this one,
because I'm not interested. They do not make me go wow,
I want to feed them, honestly, Okay, you were standing
(10:21):
on the banks and then all it was like an
apocalypse of zombie turtles coming out of the water, and
the girls are like, eh, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Throwing them fish skin, and then they're like. I was like,
oh my god, this is so weird.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
And I had sneakers on, and I'm going, that's fine,
or just stand here because they're turtles, even though they
look like zombie turtles, they're not going to touch me
because I've got I'm standing, i got sneakers on. I'm
totally like, I'm just standing there. So I'm just standing
there and watching the kids feed them the skins. Gross,
And then all of a sudden, I was like, what
is that thing doing? Why is it coming so close
to me? It comes up and latches on to my
(10:58):
ankle bites me so hard that both of my girls
turn around and burst out laughing because I'm like, oh
my god, the turtle, the zombie ter has bit me
and it left such a welt. And they're like, well,
see that's why, because you wouldn't share in the mere cats.
I'm gonna kick the turtle and then I'm gonna throw
(11:18):
you into the croc and then I'm going home because
I'm forty and I can.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yes, this day has been beat about me. What the
fuck
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An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.