Liiizard Update
I saw the lizard-skink again. He’s really big. I mean, as long as my forearm. And he’s got blue stippling on his sides and a bit of a yellow-gold throat. I’m now wondering if he’s an escaped pet. He doesn’t look very local.
He’s also very Alarm-driven. Any movement and he’s scuttled away to a place where no one can get at him.
He lives in our garage sometimes. The door mechanism is broken so it won’t open, but there’s a crack at the bottom he can enter through into the garage. It’s cool concrete in there, and bugs to eat. I’ve put out some water in a jar lid and a tiny little cardboard box with a washcloth at the bottom. No idea if he’ll want to use it, and the thought strikes me that being at home all the time maybe I’m going a little barmy, but so long as I don’t start talking to him it should be harmless…
Jeff
July 26, 2007 at 12:01 pm
No Jeff, if you start leaving him a pack of smokes a bottle of Cuervo, THAT would classify you as “barmy”.
July 26, 2007 at 12:17 pm
I am not 100% sure, but many lizards like that get all the fluids they need from their prey. But the size of your forearm, that does seem a little big, even for… Florida, right?
July 26, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Talking to him is perfectly acceptable; holding a conversation in ancient Sumerian would be worrying.
July 26, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Joe:
Cthluthu aaaighghth ranthu mapthu boragtha sssssitthhthth!!
JeffV
July 26, 2007 at 8:13 pm
He a baby gator, inni?
Anyway, if you don’t talk to him, he’ll just assume you’re deaf, dumb and mute, and you don’t want that.