Garden visitors

[Anglian]

Yesterday much to my surprise I came across a 2 ft lizard eating a rat, the lizard shot into the pool drain, it just fitted so just two questions did the lizard kill the rat, and can lizards walk backwards to get out the pipe

 

[Davita]

Yesterday much to my surprise I came across a 2 ft lizard eating a rat, the lizard shot into the pool drain, it just fitted so just two questions did the lizard kill the rat, and can lizards walk backwards to get out the pipe

Depends on what you mean by pool drain. In my pool all the water is re-cycled thru' the filter...the only way to drain the pool is to pump the water out by selecting a switch on top of the filter to by-pass. A lizard in the system would probably clog it.

 

[Anglian]

Oh dear, yes it’s a drain pipe I can drain excess pool water when we have lots of rain which fills the pool over the skimmer, also when I clean the pool I back flush the filter, the pipe goes all the way from the pump house to the road in front of the house, that’s were the lizard was, probably washed it out as I cleaned the pool this morning, I have on occasion found a drown rat, as it’s also used for roof draining,Satisfied

 

[Davita]

Oh dear, yes it’s a drain pipe I can drain excess pool water when we have lots of rain which fills the pool over the skimmer, also when I clean the pool I back flush the filter, the pipe goes all the way from the pump house to the road in front of the house, that’s were the lizard was, probably washed it out as I cleaned the pool this morning, I have on occasion found a drown rat, as it’s also used for roof draining,Satisfied

I see.... it's an excess water open drain...I need to fit one of these. We've had so much rain this year I'm fed-up having to pump excess water out of the pool before it spills over onto the grass.
Your lizard is probably half-way to the ocean by now...

 

[waarmstrong]

Where can I get some of the rat eating lizards?

 

[Anglian]

Where can I get some of the rat eating lizards?

I’ve seen two in my area, but try and catch them, but I didn’t know they ate rats

 

[jstar]

Yes and small cats too. We have one in the sewer underneath the garage ramp. Very shy so you practically don't see him/her, but a beautiful animal. Like a mini Komodo.

 

[macvert]

A few weeks ago my wife was in the kitchen when she let out an almighty scream & came running out yelling “there's a crocodile in the kitchen”.

about 3/4 m long, it had come in off the street, chased by some local guy with a BBQ in mind

 

[Anglian]

They plod along very slowly, but if startled they can really shift, I was told they taste like chicken

 

[jstar]

 

[nosox]

well it wasn't in the garden, but this morning when i got to the bottom of my coffee pot.... there was a drowned cicak

 

[Bad_azz]

well it wasn't in the garden, but this morning when i got to the bottom of my coffee pot.... there was a drowned cicak

:gross:

 

[snpark]

My coffee always tastes of mud, I guess because it was just ground this morning

 

[harryopal1]

well it wasn't in the garden, but this morning when i got to the bottom of my coffee pot.... there was a drowned cicak

Assuming you drank the coffee with cicak in the pot, if those footpath vendors one used to see with lizards, snakes and other critters in liquid are anything to go by then you should expect a leap in your libido.

 

[nosox]

Assuming you drank the coffee with cicak in the pot, if those footpath vendors one used to see with lizards, snakes and other critters in liquid are anything to go by then you should expect a leap in your libido.

I'll inform the wife to be prepared hehe
Must have been in there a while, he looks well boiled

 

[vocalneal]

but if startled they can really shift,

I believe because of , if you like , bad design they cannot run and breathe at the same time so only sprint for short distances.

 

[steveandpenny]

Well today I pickled up a Matt and next to it was a spider the size of my fist. I would have taken a pic but by time I finished screaming like a little girl and changd my shorts, he was gone.

 

[vocalneal]

ha, ha,ha. Many years ago I was in a small makeshift bar in Sabah, at the T junction near our site. The walls were split bamboo. The owner/barman decided to do some work while we were there, to put a speaker in a corner. He stood on a chair and started to bang a nail in. A jesus great spider came out from behind the bamboo with a "feck' off look and attitude. The guy fell off his chair and stopped banging and the spider went back inside.
Most guys at our table had to wipe off the beer that had come out of our noses!

 

[nosox]

Sometimes big grasshoppers come by]

 

[steveandpenny]

Saw on national geographic that only sulawesi has these dragon flus. Is this true? This one loves our cloths line.