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I found a Lizard in my box!

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    #32
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Only coz if we look down at you, we're afraid of bursting out laughing. :D

    I don't know what you're suggesting :o
    Kiera wrote: »
    Sleepy sex ftw!

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

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


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    #33
    Kiera
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    Dulce Microscopic Battery wrote: »
    Might just send her my 'little' pic, that'd cheer her up :D
    It did for me :P

    *sings, i'm your tiny dancer*


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    #34
    IvySlayer
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    Coooool, you setting it free or have a new pet?


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    #35
    Einhard
    Registered Users Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


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


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    #36
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
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    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 :)


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    #37
    MajorThom
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    She turned my into a newt!!!

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



    It got better...


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    #38
    starbelgrade
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    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?


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    epgc3fyqirnbsx
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    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


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    Einhard
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    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...


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    #41
    starbelgrade
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    I might just call him Eddie. Eddie Lizard.


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    #42
    alwaysadub
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    Call him Dick.
    Seen as you found him in your box like :pac:


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    #43
    IvySlayer
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    I might just call him Eddie. Eddie Lizard.

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


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    #44
    kiffer
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    I saw one on Bray head... it was on a log.

    ...


    ...

    then it ran away.
    That is all.

    Carry on with you're box related comments.


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    #45
    generalmiaow
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    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?


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    #46
    metaoblivia
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    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. :D


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    #47
    tallus
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    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.


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    #48
    miss_shadow
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    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


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    #49
    pickarooney
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    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?


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    Morpheus
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    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 :D !?

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


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    #51
    NothingMan
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    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.


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    #52
    starbelgrade
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    tallus wrote: »
    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.

    The cat probably chewed it off! Cheers for the link.


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    #53
    McChubbin
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    I thought this thread featured trouser snakes.

    For shame.


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    #54
    asomeday
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    back on topic these little guys-or something very similar like to crawl under my kitchen door

    i live in a marshy bog area but must admit having a near fit when i saw the first one...

    are they newts or lizards?tried to search a few months ago re lizards but came up with nothing so newts was my decision.

    so glad im not the only one!


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    #55
    bonzodog2
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    I named my daughter's newt, that she keeps in a tank, Isaac. I tried to quote a previous post, but it didn't work


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    #56
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
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    asomeday wrote: »
    back on topic these little guys-or something very similar like to crawl under my kitchen door

    i live in a marshy bog area but must admit having a near fit when i saw the first one...

    are they newts or lizards?tried to search a few months ago re lizards but came up with nothing so newts was my decision.

    so glad im not the only one!

    I think they are newts, but I cannot be 100% on that. Grandad is one of those people who know everything about wildlife and flora, and told me what it was when I found them.


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    #57
    captainjack
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    I've seen some lizards around the edge of the lighthouse at the Old Head of Kinsale.

    Always in the same area... but they could be more abundant.
    I've only been out there maybe 5 times in the last 5 years but I've looked for and seen the lizards every time.



    On a side note; I like the "my newt" joke.

    Why are so many people attacking it?

    The simple puns are the best


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