Lizard attack

[saucymb]

Just before 4pm as I was sitting here in my office DISing, minding my own business, out of the corner of my eye I saw a scurrying little streak. After I climbed up on my swivel chair and let out a good shriek, I realized it was a lizard in my apartment!

He ran under my very heavy bookcase, and I jumped from chair to desk to hallway to grab the phone. I called my landlord, they said they couldn't do anything, I said um, you have to as I won't spend the night in this house with a lizard. They sent two maintenance guys over, but they couldn't catch him.

Finally got DH on the phone, by then I was a little hysterical, he came home straight away and we spent the next hour tracking this little rascal down. He's gone now, RIP.

How the heck did he get in my house? We've seen some large spiders, centipedes, and other bugs here in the past two weeks, so Tuesday they came and sprayed and we had to leave the house for 6 hours.

I cannot live in a house with amphibians or reptiles running around! What should I do???

 

[wvrevy]

You've probably been living in the house with one for quite a while...but since his food sources of bugs, centipedes, and large spiders disappeared, he had to come out and look for food.

 

[saucymb]

You've probably been living in the house with one for quite a while...but since his food sources of bugs, centipedes, and large spiders disappeared, he had to come out and look for food.

Oh, now, THAT's comforting!

 

[wvrevy]

Sorry 'bout that.

 

[caitycaity]

ick! i had one of these in my apartment awhile back:




(warning big icky picture)

it was a camel cricket - about 3 inches long - IN MY BATHROOM, behind the toilet!!!!

 

[wvrevy]

 

[floridafam]

I should have sent over my DH or DS. They can catch lizards pretty easily.

I've had 3 in my house in the last 3 months. DS 9 caught them all and put them outside.

Now, if a snake crawls in the house, that's another story.

 

[Talking Hands]

We got lizards in the house on a regular basis. Cats love to play with them. Don't even bother me anymore.

 

[saucymb]

We got lizards in the house on a regular basis. Cats love to play with them. Don't even bother me anymore.

My two cats, Dixie and Vidalia, were oblivious to the whole lizard incident today. They never did see him, but they knew something was wrong as I was jumping around on the furniture. They are generally terrified of any bugs larger than an ant, so it's a good thing they didn't see this little guy.

You'd think that since I'm a girl raised in the country on a farm, that I would be okay with these things! But I'm NOT! Creepy Crawly Slimy things really make me anxious!

 

[Sandy22]

He's gone now, RIP.

How exactly do you kill a lizard? Do you step on it? I've only seen lizards while I'm at WDW and they don't look like the kinds of things I would want to kill. Bugs, spiders, that creepy creepy thing in the picture above, no problem killing those but a cute little lizard?

 

[saucymb]

How exactly do you kill a lizard? Do you step on it? I've only seen lizards while I'm at WDW and they don't look like the kinds of things I would want to kill. Bugs, spiders, that creepy creepy thing in the picture above, no problem killing those but a cute little lizard?

Although I don't want to know all of the details, let's just say that a yardstick, flashlight, plastic bag, 12 paper towels and my husband were involved. Oh, and 409. Though I have no problem with "cute little lizard's" in my garden or yard, the moment they step errr, paw???, into my house they cease being cute and become menacing terrors.

 

[Sandy22]

Although I don't want to know all of the details, let's just say that a yardstick, flashlight, plastic bag, 12 paper towels and my husband were involved. Oh, and 409.

 

[bajanswife]

Lizards are welcome in my house - they eat the bugs! They can be found almost anywhere - you couldn't stay at my house if you were afraid of them!

Funnily enough, there was a baby one hiding behind the toilet paper roll in my office bathroom today and it jumped out onto the wall when I reached for the paper. Then later I went back to the same stall and he was back there again! I couldn't help but think of my best friend, who would have had a heart attack!