Until the visits get a bit more um, intrusive.
Over the last few months or so our cats have been allowed to go outside as they please through the beauty of a recently installed kitty door. Through that door they have brought us mice, birds and other assorted fauna.
I have been trying to deal with these "gifts" as graciously as I possibly can, though I am very squeamish about mice and lizards and bugs and deathly afraid of birds (this is a long-time problem for me...long story).
So, on Sunday morning, we got up early to go out woodcutting to get ready for the winter which is rapidly approaching up here. I was in Elizabeth's room getting her dressed when my husband stepped into, then out of, then back into the room very peculiarly. He then told me, "Stand up and get out of the room. Take the baby with you. Go right now."
I was understandably confused...I asked "Why, why why why WHY?" He just reiterated his evacuation order, which I complied with.
He then went and got a large cardboard box, returned to Elizabeth's room and retrieved from behind her door a giant HORNY TOAD LIZARD!
Holy Christ!
We have no idea how he got into our house, though we suspect that our cats were involved.
We released the lizard in our front yard where Louie, our cat, attempted to mess with him further and was met with a puffed up lizard, hissing and spitting. Louie backed off.
I am still recovering.
How long was that thing in my baby's room? All night? Ugh, I am SOOO creeped out!
Bob also found a giant tarantula on the road to our house and, like a guy, caught it and brought it home. Here is the giant tarantula, which we also released back into the wild, after photographing the specimen and equipping him with a GPS transmitter. Just kidding. He ate the GPS unit. What a big mother!
5 comments:
Ooh, that sounds exciting! She definitely got spooked by SOMETHING!
Oh, and yes I think they are poisonous, my husband says they spit their blood at you when you get them mad. Ew.
We get large toads here in Florida (bufo marinus) that are toxic if eaten by animals & the skin secretions can inflam human eyes & skin. I've never seen a horny toad lizard! Although, we always have an occasional gecko and lizard living inside the house with us.
My cat, Louie (he's the surly gray one), has gotten deeply into lizard tracking and hunting in our yard and almost always brings his kills (which are almost always still alive at the time) into our house where he then chases them into a corner and eats them.
He actually JUST did this about five minutes ago.
It's fun.
It's good to know that they're not poisonous, since we see them all over the place out here.
They are scary looking guys though!
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