Are lizards getting cleverer these days?
For the past 2 weeks, a particularly smart lizard has been living in our house. We have frequent resident lizards living in our house all this while, and I’m (trying to be) used to seeing lizard poo on the walls, sofa frame, divider ledge or on the floors in the mornings, or a lizard lurking behind the rubbish bin at the sink when the night gets dark. But for the past fortnight, this one lizard is too brazen! Apart from all the usual places, it even poos on our sofa covers, on our pillows (which are on the bed. At 7pm some more!), and on our bath towels (which are hanging on the windows!) Eeww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know why we are so scared of lizards. They are so small, if you compare a lizard’s size to ours, and they don’t bite. Just a (hygiene) nuisance with all their poo, and a little squirmish-looking (yikes!). Since young, Baby1 and Baby2 have even treat the common-corridor lizards as “their friends”, when Ah Gong and Ah Ma brings them down to the void deck to count the number of lizards on the walls. The average number is usually 6 or more (urghs!).
Anyway, this “friend” of ours is getting too bold. Now, I am even paranoid of sitting down on our sofa, or going to bed, sobz. So last night, after sight-confirmation of its location at the kitchen sink (it had been roaming from room to room for the past few nights), I decided to trap it. Based on the previous records of its poo (and movement) locations, I suspected that it will move from the kitchen sink to along the divider ledge to along the kitchen door and enter into one of the rooms. I placed a lizard trapping box on the floor along the path outside the kitchen, and BINGO, a lizard has been trapped on the sticky tape this morning, yikes! It was a mighty big one, I mean not the usual baby ones, and with it still struggling, Dear1 bravely and quickly disposed the box down the chute. Good riddance!
I hope that I can comfortably sit on my sofa or lie on my bed now. I hope that we have caught the right lizard, or will lizards out smart us? Boohoo!
- Dear2
PS: I actually meant to praise this trustworthy lizard trapping box in this post. Reliable (it almost never fails to deliver “results”, albeit mostly the small ones, or sometimes even the roaches), and also a less messy way of dealing with these nasty pests. Thumbs up!
PPS: I am afraid that lizards have indeed outsmart us humans, sobz. A day after we caught the lizard, new droppings have been laid again. There were actually 2 lizards in the house! Both Baby1 and Baby2 hypothesized that the smart lizard got a dumb lizard to act as a guinea pig to test out the food in the lizard trapping box. Alas, the dumb one got sacrificed and the smart one is still roaming our house scot free, knowing that the lizard trapping box is bad. It has been a week since we placed a new box, and nothing has been caught yet while there are various signs of its existence. Cry!!!!!
PPPS: 2 weeks on, I hope that we have finally caught the real smart lizard today. Since the last update, we have caught 2 more lizards (urgh!). The first was with a delicious chicken bone from my chicken rice. For the second one, we tempted it with CP fried chicken but to no avail after 3 days, so we replaced with some homemade mooncakes. Bingo! The morale of the story? Perhaps ready-to-eat food really do contain enough preservatives that even lizards do not want to eat.
Dear1 Dear2 