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omfg there is a LIZARD in my HOUSE
A LIZARD!!!!! I just look up and there is a LIZARD on the wall near the tv. I shrieked and yelled at DH to get it and do you know what he said!?? "Oh, I see you've found my little friend."
My little friend!?? Apparently this has been going on for a few DAYS and DH hasn't been able to catch him. He didn't mention it to me because he knew I'd freak out and he was "hoping he'd just leave on his own."
I am living with ANIMALS. There is a reptile on the loose!!! My baby plays in this house! How am I supposed to sleep!? Does anyone know if there is any lizard spray or lizard trap I can buy? Do exterminators take care of this? Would it be an overreaction to go to a hotel?
Have I mentioned I'm not an "outdoorsy" type girl?
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Re: omfg there is a LIZARD in my HOUSE
ummm, Rach? I'd get the hell outta there now too!
I'm with you. DH would be getting an arse-kicking.
I'm sorry, what was that? I thought someone said "snake," and I think I blacked out for a second...
Try these websites:
https://www.bugspray.com/article/reptiles.html
https://www.city-data.com/forum/florida/18289-need-advice-re-little-lizards.html
And a funny aside. For some reason I typed "how to get a lizard out of your as$." You don't want to know what poped up!
*dies laughing*
Where do you live?? I'm in FL and it's so common here that my DS catches them and tosses them back out now lol.
Yeah, we had one a month ago or so. Blue tail and all. I freaked
DH wasn't home, so I had to catch the effer. But I did catch it under a glass jar. And then I babysat the jar until DH got home b/c I needed him to get it outside for me...and I was afraid it would get away in the meantime.
I hope you get it!
ACCCCKKKKKK!!!!!
That was the worst part of living in Florida!
I promise I won't kill it. When I see them outside I think they're pretty cute. So far DH has just attempted to catch it in a bowl or something like that.
This would all be a lot easier if I could have a glass or ten of some nice wine.
Awwwww...I think it sounds cute!
eek!!!! get thee to the ritz stat!
i am not a fan of little reptiley critters!
I would be afraid it would be on my bed in the middle of the night! blech!
Don't make me report you lizard killers to the Pets board, they will get medieval on your arces!
LOL @ Rach, though. I had a baby toad in here once, freaked me the [email protected]()#* out.
Oh, totally a gecko. Poor thing is probably scared sh!tless looking for a way out!
Ok, all you Florida girls are making me feel slightly less hysterical. I mean he is pretty small...lizards aren't carnivores or anything like that right?
I think they eat insects.
Changed my mind. Back to hysterical.
Okay, I was going to avoid this story, but seans asked for it...
Orlando, Florida, 1997...
I had stepped outside to water a plant, and then came back in, and was accompanied into my bedroom through the sliding glass door by....A LIZARD!!! (Yes, Rach, the same tiny lizard you are talking about.)
I tried to catch the lizard in a box. I tried for an hour and a half, until I was panting like a dog. The problem? Very small lizards are lightning fast. They bend space and time. They are, in short, uncatchable.
So I gave up. I decided to go to bed. But then in the dark, I began to slowly lose my mind. I could feel lizard feet in my hair. I was afraid to sleep with my head out of the pillow because I just KNEW that the lizard was going to crawl into my mouth. And when I went to turn on the light and get back up, the damned lizard was on the wall by the lightswitch. He was mocking me.
Now it was personal. It was him or me. There was a can of bug spray in the bathroom, because it was Florida and therefore a basic survival tool.
It took me another half hour to almost hit him enough times to slow him down. Now I could catch him with a shoebox. But every time I tried to slip something under the shoebox so I could get him outside, a leg or a tail got caught.
There was thrashing and screaming. The lizard didn't handle it well either. But in the end, he was outside, and I was safe.
Until I realized there was half of a small frog on my side of the door. Gross.
My ex was let to clean that one up when he got home. I was done.
Lori - I just read your post out loud to DH. I was laughing so hard I was crying.
Of course now I'm going to be awake all night worrying about a lizard crawling into my mouth, which somehow hadn't ocurred to me yet. So thanks for that.
Oh, gross. ?I wish you lived on the south side, I'd come over with my killer cat and we'd have the situation taken care of in 10 minutes. ?Seriously. ?He hauls dead bunnies out of the woods and leaves piles of lizards on our doorstep. ?:::puke:::
We had one in our house last year, I took a broom after it and got it out. ?It was just in the foyer though. ?Not sure what to say about yours. ?Maybe call a pest control company and see what they say?
(read it. you know you want to.)
anderson . september 2008
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Kir-I love you to pieces but, I'm giving you the side eye.
As someone who currently has salmonella, I am going to poke you until your eye goes straight. This was info I got from the emergency room.
I'd definitely wash up but if you saw my post from earlier. My sister and I played with them all the time growing up and we are ok....or at least I think we are.
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Loan me your cat! I'll make you brownies! Apparently they might have salmonella now, but what kind of pregnant woman turns down brownies?
Seriously you guys, every time I think I see movement out of the corner of my eye I go into a momentary full on panic. There is something wrong with me. Thank goodness the lizard has only been sighted downstairs and the bedrooms are upstairs or we might have a real problem on our hands.
::nods solemnly::
Yeah. Because it's not like they can climb stairs or anything.
::whistles the theme to Jaws because there really isn't a good gecko horror movie::