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This winter we noticed that there was a lounge of lizards living in our fireplace. They drove our indoor cat crazy and she'd hunt for them day and night, but they were sheltered behind the glass fireplace doors and were able to torment her with impunity.
Then one day we stopped seeing them and we wondered what happened to the little dears.
Well, today I was cleaning around the fireplace in preparation for a visit by my in-laws (yes, deep, deep cleaning) and I found this little brown anole (Anolis sagrei) skeleton behind a stack of books.
One mystery solved.
Enough excitement, now it's back to the drudgery of cleaning :(
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For a minute I thought it looked like it had morphed into the "invisible lizard"...looks alive but clear! Yucko!
I had Chinese students here for the last 18 months and they had Korean and Chinese food sent here FROM THERE...and, after 32 yrs of owning this condo, I got ENORMOUS cockroaches! HORRIBLE! I've been able to conquer them myself, believe it or not, because I didn't want poisons with my sweet little Blues prowling around (my gorgeous kitty) but it was a nightmare and I was told those products DO bring in roaches........lucky for me I had cockroaches with MADE IN CHINA on them, too! :-)
Mystery solved.
Sorry you're having to do deep cleaning. Not my favorite thing to do either.
Have a fabulous day. ♥
Only a Florida resident would speak casually about living with lizards
Z: Sorry to hear about your big roaches. I hate those suckers, too, but ours are MADE IN FLORIDA and we get them all year long. UGH! I use Combat roach bait and it works very well without spraying poison all over the place.
As much as i would probably have loved to meet Sweetie's parents, the fact that they were gone before i met him means one good thing -- no troublesome visits from those in-laws. Of course, i got it worse because he's a twin and the twin is here all of the time. Oh, well. Hope the visit goes well.
Sandee: *sigh* One of life's necessary evils.
Jan: Lol. There's nothing casual about trying to catch a lizard with one hand while trying to keep your cat away from it with the other. We can't keep them out of the house and, up until last December, we thought the fireplace lizards were getting in via the roof. Turns out they weren't trapped in there at all.
Roaches and spiders bother me a lot and lizards eat bugs. That works for me.
Poor little devils.
Messymimi: My in-laws are very nice people and our visits are enjoyable. I don't know why I stress out in advance and feel the need to over clean. You'd think I'd know better after thirty six of marriage to their son.
Kid: I know. It just breaks my heart that they get themselves stuck in the house and we can't them back outside where they belong.
I was remodeling once and pulled some baseboard molding away from a wall to replace it.
I exposed a hole in the drywall with a skeleton of a mouse in it. He couldn't gnaw through the molding.
Ed Bonderenka: It happens quite often. My husband found the complete skeleton of a squirrel in our attic. I don't know how it was able to get in but not able get out. Poor creatures are just looking for food.
I am always initially startled by those darting lizards whenever I get down there. Hey, at least you don't have a pod of gators. You don't, do you?
DaBlade: No gator pods... yet ;)
There are lizards everywhere, though, and they keep our cats busy. I saw our Maine Coon walking around with a lizard sticking out of her mouth like a stogie. For days we referred to her as "a wild cat, see."
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