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Can Newts climb?

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  • 21-02-2008 12:26am
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    harlem
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    Just curious - can newts climb the same as lizards ie, up walls?
    I tried google/wikipedia it earlier but I'm still none the wiser.

    The reason I ask is I found a little newt in my house yesterday & I wan't to try figure out how it got in so I can stop any more getting in!

    The room he got into has really thick walls & was recently replastered/insulated so thre's no gaps in the walls/around the windows.
    The only access to the room is a hole up about 15' up where I need to put a vent cover up.
    I'm wondering is it possible that they can climb up that high or are they like mice in that they can get in anywhere?

    I'd never even seen a newt up close until I seen this one and unfortunately for him I didn't see him and stood on the poor little bugger :(


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    lucozader
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭lucozader


    i have paddletail and chinese firebelly newts and they climb


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    Lauragoesmad
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    I'd never even seen a newt up close until I seen this one and unfortunately for him I didn't see him and stood on the poor little bugger :(

    Awww, the poor little thing!


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    Kaldorn
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    perhaps you stood on the poor fecker before you entered the house? where do you live,i wanna move there is you have foxes and newts in your garden?


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    harlem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭harlem


    Kaldorn wrote: »
    perhaps you stood on the poor fecker before you entered the house? where do you live,i wanna move there is you have foxes and newts in your garden?

    That's what I thought at first that maybe I'd left the door open or something but I hadn't been out in the garden & we dont use that room much so the doors always closed in it.:confused:

    Its mad I'm a Dub and I've only recently moved to the outskirts of Kilkenny so its a bit of a culture shock, I've never seen so much wildlife in a garden before I loves it :)


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    harlem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭harlem


    Just found another newt in the living room, still dont have a clue how they're getting in :confused:


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    andrawolf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭andrawolf


    Yes they can climb. As a child I love finding them. I would put them in a bucket to bring them home they would climb out. Where my house is built now is the field I used to get them and when I saw the field turn to a site I moved as many as I could to a river near by. When we cut they grass we have to look around the edges for them and frogs. now my kids put them into buckets so they can see them climb up.:D:D:D:D:D


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