Hello everyone

I came home this afternoon to find our two barking furiously... which is normal if I come home at an odd time (great guard pups), however this time they were barking directly at the ground...

Upon investigation I found this...



This poor HUGE lizard was just lying alongside the boundary fence with my two barking directly at it...

I had to lure this lizard out the backyard and across the road (and I'm a chicken sh** with these sorts of thing!!)  where he was safely re-homed (hopefully). We live directly across a golf course which is also filled with large open space of trees, shrubs and bushes filled with Kangaroos and other wildlife.

This is the first spring/summer living in this property of ours, so I'm sure there may be more surprises to come our way, but I'm hoping not...

lol, yep, the bob tails are startin to come out down here too. They are good cos the keep the snakes away
My mum is terified of bob tail lizards, i found one when i was a kid and waited for her to go to the toilet and put it in a bucket at the door for her to find when she was finished, she was stuck in there for an hour while my lil sis, my old man and me had a good old laugh at her refusing to leave till it was gone

you pay good money for a shingle back like that one..
they are  very friendly & docile lizards.
we bred reptiles for a while,
until the kids lost interest in them & my wife was a bit sketchy with them too!!!!
cheers shane

I hadn't seen a shingle back like that one   I had a couple of Lace Monitors, a nice 10ft Olive python aswell as all the usual water dragons, Water pythons, Carpets, etc though the other half isn't too fond of them   If I were to get another reptile, it'd be a Black headed python  

Talking about pythons.
I have lost 8 fischer lovebirds in 2 weeks, at $35 a bird. It won't break the bank, but these snakes have expensive taste.
We had neighbours that found a large carpet snake in their cat cage, and the mrs said to her husband, "where is my cat". John just pointed at the lump  half way down the snakes bod.
He had trapped himself with his fat belly, couldn't get back out through the mesh.

Poor cat!!!

If I had known how much these things are worth... should've caged this one and sold it on the black market!!!  

A good friend of mine has a snake... he's lost in the house somewhere and has been for about a month now... how anyone sleeps at night in that household is beyond me.

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