Everyone hates cane toads. They were brought from South America to control another pest and have become worse pests themselves. Brisbane is the only big Australian city they live in.

The toads are pests because they eat Australia’s native wildlife and, since they are poisonous, they kill dogs, cats, dingos and anything else that tries to eat them.

The Aussies are happy to kill any cane toads they come across, splatting them with golf clubs, cricket bats and any other implement to hand. As more sensitive Poms, we use the recommended humane approach, catching them in plastic bags and freezing them to death in the freezer. This supposedly causes no pain.