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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,