Leapin' Lizards

Help! There’s a lizard in my bathroom…

No fooling. There’s a lizard in my bathroom, an armadillo in the backyard and an alligator in the marsh. What’s a girl to do?

This lizard in the bathroom, he looks pretty scared. In fact, he leaped up on the wall…now I know where the comic book term “Leaping lizards” originates.

They do leap. Then he scrunched down, with his two left legs holding his body perpendicular to the wall, and he folded his right legs against his body so that I couldn’t see them, as if he was trying to fit into a tight hiding space. Of course, green against white tile is hard to miss.

I don’t want to hurt him, but I would like him outside. Last time, I chased a lizard with a book and a garbage pail to the door. It didn’t work very well, the lizard almost had a heart attack it was freaking out so much, and I only did it because the lizard was close to the door any way. This time “he” is a room away from the door.

Any advice on how to get a lizard out of your bathroom? I’d love to hear from you…

PS. Miss Cindy who cooks in the house here told me there is a way to pick up baby lizards where they literally freeze and you can “clip” them on to your ear. A country girl’s trick, she said. Well, I’ve got too much city in me to try it…