Stanster, you have just invited 50 comments calling you a wimp.
1: Only 50? What a buncha weak commenters.
Lizards are completely harmless, odour-free and eat flies. What's not to like.
Maybe the cat will "take" "care" "of" it.
I'm amused that the cat is trying to go back outside, as if to say, "It's okay! There's lots more out there. I'll just go get another one!"
Wait a minute. Am I cat blogging? I'm probably banned.
I used to love living in various tropical apartments that had geckos running around at large. They are fun to watch, eat bugs, and are considered good luck.
Get a couple of glue traps and you'll be fine.
So now I'm doing some mental bargaining, trying to assess exactly how comfortable I am with the lizard of unknown species that's taken up occupancy in our house crevices.
I'll take it as given that you are not actually prepared to *do* anything based on your level of comfort--so we're just deciding what your mental state should be, right? Wimp Give it not another thought.
Ooh, that's a pretty one. Now that the herpetological crisis has been averted, here's the headline of the day.
How'd you catch it?
I trapped it through the cunning use of a bike light, two Solo cups, and a Sudoku book (to block an exit path). This explains why I don't get anything actually useful done on my days off.
I'd call that a skink, but I don't really know my herpes very well.
Maybe you and your herpes could go on a double date some time.
15: Do they sit still when a bright light gets in their eyes, like with deer?
14: The actual footage made me kind of sympathetic to the whole situation.
So you used the Solo cups to block the drain, and the bike light to blind the cleaning robot? Clever.
Do they sit still when a bright light gets in their eyes, like with deer?
No. I used the light* just to be able to see it. Then I spooked it with a stick, causing it to run out into the little hallway I'd created with plastic cups on either end. Blocked its path backwards with the puzzle book, and Bob's your uncle lizard.
*it was a rear light, and thus red in color (set on solid, not blinking, of course), so you should imagine the whole scene as a very dramatic military mission from an action movie.
7: Mention of anoles always makes me wonder if they're the opposite of catholes.