I found a Lizard in my box!

starbelgrade

I was out in the back garden today & saw a little animal in one of the plant boxes, which I thought was a frog (as we'd one living in the front garden until he met an unfortunate death with the lawnmower), but turned out to be a little lizard!

I'd no idea where it'd come from as I'd never seen one in Ireland, but it turns out that they are native to this country.

Here's a pic of the little blighter...

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/122/l_60969e13f9d4432bae23124d9750be6b.jpg

Has anyone else seen any or known that the live here, or am I the only one who didn't know this?

TPD

A friend of mine caught a few when he was younger.

orourkeda

Very misleading thread title.

I thought you were a chick with a lizard up her hootenanny

M5

What a thread title!!!!! little disappointed by the content tho;)

M5

orourkeda wrote: »

Very misleading thread title.

I thought you were a chick with a lizard up her hootenanny

DAMN YOU!!!!

flas

looks like a newt or something is it!?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

It's probably a newt is it?

Opportunity to tell crap joke : A man walks into a bar one day. Barman says 'Is that a little lizard on your shoulder?'
He says 'He's not a little lizard, he's my newt!!'

Sid_Justice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviparous_lizard

orourkeda

Dulce Microscopic Battery wrote: »

It's probably a newt is it?

Opportunity to tell crap joke : A man walks into a bar one day. Barman says 'Is that a little lizard on your shoulder?'
He says 'He's not a little lizard, he's my newt!!'

Dont get it

starbelgrade

flas wrote: »

looks like a newt or something is it!?

Nope - it's a lizard. I googled it & apparently the Wildlife Trust are doing surveys on lizard sightings across the country. It seems that they like bogland, which would explain him being in my garden as the soil is always wet.

whiteboy

lizards are pretty f*ckin cool

m@cc@

orourkeda wrote: »

Dont get it

mi·nute 2 (m-nt, -nyt, m-)
adj.
1. Exceptionally small; tiny. See Synonyms at small.
2. Beneath notice; insignificant.
3. Characterized by careful scrutiny and close examination: held a minute inspection of the grounds.

M5

m@cc@ wrote: »

Minute.

ahhhhhh of course

fletch...

could be a Common Brown Lizard ? doesnt look newty enough.
done a google and found this http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055891379

m@cc@

M5 wrote: »

ahhhhhh of course

Joke would work better with a salamander since a newt isn't a lizard.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

orourkeda wrote: »

Dont get it

hence the crap joke bit
'little lizard' my newt = minute :o

orourkeda

m@cc@ wrote: »

mi·nute 2 (m-nt, -nyt, m-)
adj.
1. Exceptionally small; tiny. See Synonyms at small.
2. Beneath notice; insignificant.
3. Characterized by careful scrutiny and close examination: held a minute inspection of the grounds.

Yes. Thats it.

CathalDublin

BEst thread title I've seen in a while:D
Yea I haven't seen one of them since I was a kid, knew they existed though

Sid_Justice

m@cc@ wrote: »

Joke would work better with a salamander since a newt isn't a lizard.

Neither is a salamander. Don't know what you're trying to say.

Anyway, it's definitely and unequivocally a Zootoca vivipara

m@cc@

Sid_Justice wrote: »

Neither is a salamander. Don't know what you're trying to say.

Anyway, it's definitely and unequivocally a Zootoca vivipara

I meant as in 'little salamander'.

starbelgrade

CathalDublin wrote: »

BEst thread title I've seen in a while:D
Yea I haven't seen one of them since I was a kid, knew they existed though

I preferred the one about "there's a mad squirrel in my bathroom". That was nuts.

Kiera

I found a snake in my box a few times

monkeyfudge

Typical.

I get my monkeyfudge account back and now we have threads about lizards... sheesh..

m@cc@

starbelgrade wrote: »

I preferred the one about "there's a mad squirrel in my bathroom". That was nuts.

Boo!! GTFO!

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Kiera wrote: »

I found a snake in my box a few times

Careful now

Kiera

Dulce Microscopic Battery wrote: »

Careful now

You gonna send me that "tiny" pic again? :P

m@cc@

Kiera wrote: »

I found a snake in my box a few times

Date rape?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Kiera wrote: »

You gonna send me that "tiny" pic again? :P

No!
People look up to me around here woman :mad:

starbelgrade

Dulce Microscopic Battery wrote: »

No!
People look up to me around here woman :mad:

Only coz if we look down at you, we're afraid of bursting out laughing.

Kiera

m@cc@ wrote: »

Date rape?

Sleepy sex ftw!

Dulce Microscopic Battery wrote: »

No!
People look up to me around here woman :mad:

lmfao! You should post this post ^^^^ in the thread where the dumped girl wants to be cheered up

--LOS--

I'd say that thread title was completely accidental Starbelgrade!

On topic I've never seen a lizard in this country, even frogs are hard to come by these days now.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

starbelgrade wrote: »

Only coz if we look down at you, we're afraid of bursting out laughing.

I don't know what you're suggesting

Kiera wrote: »

Sleepy sex ftw!

lmfao! You should post this post ^^^^ in the thread where the dumped girl wants to be cheered up

Might just send her my 'little' pic, that'd cheer her up

Kiera

Dulce Microscopic Battery wrote: »

Might just send her my 'little' pic, that'd cheer her up

It did for me :P

*sings, i'm your tiny dancer*

IvySlayer

Coooool, you setting it free or have a new pet?

Einhard

This thread isn't as I anticipated it from the title. Godammit, must my fevered expectations always be dashed?!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Kiera wrote: »

I found a snake in my box a few times

Duuuuurty!!!

m@cc@ wrote: »

Date rape?

It's not as bad as I thought it would be, surprisingly enough.



OP, I used to find these things close to ponds, in cracks in walls and the likes. Cute little things. I haven't seen one in a very very long time though. As a kid, I wasn't sure what they were so I killed them. That's one thing I regret doing in my life. Poor creatures They're in little newt heaven now

MajorThom

She turned my into a newt!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

It got better...

starbelgrade

IvySlayer wrote: »

Coooool, you setting it free or have a new pet?

Well, he's lucky to still be alive - I showed him to the cat, he sniffed it & went for it teeth first!

So after a lucky escape, I read on the web that they like to eat worms, so I put him in the vegetable plot - there's plenty of them in there for him to chow on.

Any suggestions for a name for my new friend?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

starbelgrade wrote: »

Well, he's lucky to still be alive - I showed him to the cat, he sniffed it & went for it teeth first!

So after a lucky escape, I read on the web that they like to eat worms, so I put him in the vegetable plot - there's plenty of them in there for him to chow on.

Any suggestions for a name for my new friend?

Padraig

Einhard

starbelgrade wrote: »

Well, he's lucky to still be alive - I showed him to the cat, he sniffed it & went for it teeth first!

So after a lucky escape, I read on the web that they like to eat worms, so I put him in the vegetable plot - there's plenty of them in there for him to chow on.

Any suggestions for a name for my new friend?

Isaac.

Wait, did you say he was a newt? Not as funny otherwise.

Anyway, what makes you think he doesn't already have a name?? Bloody presumptuous humans...

starbelgrade

I might just call him Eddie. Eddie Lizard.

alwaysadub

Call him Dick.
Seen as you found him in your box like :pac:

IvySlayer

starbelgrade wrote: »

I might just call him Eddie. Eddie Lizard.

Pete after OutlawPete! Cos my friend had a lizard named Petey too.

kiffer

I saw one on Bray head... it was on a log.

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then it ran away.
That is all.

Carry on with you're box related comments.

generalmiaow

I think this lizard is the only native land reptile in Ireland! you see them in wicklow a good bit especially around the start of june cooling down on rocks. You can make frogs aplenty stop by if you have a pond, I wonder is there any decent way of attracting lizards?

metaoblivia

This kind of lizard likes to visit our house several times a week. They're cute little guys, but if I see them I like to take them back outside. I just think they're happier there.

tallus

It's a Lacerta Vivipara, native to this country and a protected species. The one in your photo looks like it has a re-grown tail. They shed the tail very easily. Especially when attacked by a predator.

miss_shadow

starbelgrade wrote: »

Nope - it's a lizard. I googled it & apparently the Wildlife Trust are doing surveys on lizard sightings across the country. It seems that they like bogland, which would explain him being in my garden as the soil is always wet.

My mum saw two huge ones near a bog in Kerry, couldn't believe how big they were.

I have seen a small one which almost looked tropical on a beach in Kerry too

pickarooney

Bexley Howling Typhoid wrote: »

OP, I used to find these things close to ponds, in cracks in walls and the likes. Cute little things. I haven't seen one in a very very long time though. As a kid, I wasn't sure what they were so I killed them.

You newtralised them?

Morpheus

I caught a few of these as a kid (newts) used to keep them in a bucket for a few days but then they'd die gave up after that! some of them had crests all the way down their backs and others hadnt, assume they were males and females rather than different species of newts, or else I stuck a lizard in the bucket of water and it drownded !?

speaking of sleepy sex... nice way to wake up at 4am

NothingMan

Kiera wrote: »

I found a snake in my box a few times

Again with the black mamba. You really like to talk about it. You should bring it to a boards show & tell.