Loch Ness Monster Inna Dish

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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.

Comments

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[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.

[pipibluestockin]

Molluscs living under water dish perhaps?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

No snails there, just water.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

OH NO! There goes Tokyo go go Godzilla!:D

*molluscs beware!*

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

[beki.livejournal.com]

Now you know how those Japanese monster movies get their monsters.. He was just trying to break into the biz early :)

[eleri.livejournal.com]

heeeheeeheeeeheeeee

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO

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

[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

Poor Polly! Traumatized for life!

[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!!!

[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!!

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

LOL Flat out like a lizard drinkin'