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Polly and Scruffy had finished their tinned meat by-products, and Polly went for a drink as she usually does. She put her nose in the bowl, then leapt vertically a good 3 feet, ran up to the back fence, turned and barked furiously at me. I had a real "What the...?" moment, and looked in the water dish.

A baby blue tongue lizard was swimming in there, wriggling around in the tepid water with its head above the surface very much like a micro-plesiosaur. The lizard is not more than 6" long, and even though the dish isn't very large it was certainly large enough for the baby to submerge in and emerge loch ness monster-like to frighten my poor dog.

Right now it's in a shoe box to dry out. Why the lizard was in the water is something only the lizard can answer. Hot? Thirsty? Cowabunga? The lizard merely huffs and hisses at me, pokes out its alarming blue tongue and declines to say more. Soon I'll free it into my garden so it can stomp its tiny way to mollusc carnage.

Date: 14 Feb 2006 07:53 (UTC)

Date: 14 Feb 2006 08:45 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chriswheeler.livejournal.com
I rescued a frillneck from a salt pool. It couldn't climb up the tiles and it was very sluggish, I assumed it was because it was cold. I guessed that either it went after the drowning insects or it just fell in. It ran off as soon as it warmed up.

Date: 14 Feb 2006 09:44 (UTC)
From: [personal profile] pipibluestockin
Molluscs living under water dish perhaps?

Date: 14 Feb 2006 10:11 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
No snails there, just water.

Date: 14 Feb 2006 11:16 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weyrdbird.livejournal.com
OH NO! There goes Tokyo go go Godzilla!:D

*molluscs beware!*

Date: 14 Feb 2006 11:39 (UTC)

Date: 14 Feb 2006 12:55 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beki.livejournal.com
Now you know how those Japanese monster movies get their monsters.. He was just trying to break into the biz early :)

Date: 14 Feb 2006 14:45 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eleri.livejournal.com
heeeheeeheeeeheeeee

Date: 14 Feb 2006 15:24 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oceansedge.livejournal.com
ROFLMAO

Poor Polly! Her sweet little doggy heart must be all a quiver.

Date: 14 Feb 2006 15:36 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/
Poor Polly! Traumatized for life!

Date: 14 Feb 2006 23:49 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
She has been traumatized for life so many times she's almost a nervous wreck.

But don't ever come into the back yard without someone she knows. She's not a nervous wreck then.

Smile!!!

Date: 14 Feb 2006 17:58 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] penpouring.livejournal.com
PLEASE get a picture before you release it!! And one of your little dog too!! hee hee hee hee....

Anyway - Happy Valentine's Day!!

Date: 27 Feb 2006 17:08 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oceansedge.livejournal.com
LOL Flat out like a lizard drinkin'

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