How do you catch a lizard?
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they are all over this place I go to... I don't know how to describe it but it's a big hill, going down and like a little valley with a bunch of bushes, maybe I'll get pictures of it... It's doggy heaven for cooper, and it's also full of lizards! If I'm lucky I'll find one that isn't in the bushes, but when I try to catch it the lizard scurries under a thick bush.
Oh gosh.. please don't use those sticky traps. Those are the most in humane things ever created. Have any of you witnessed a mouse on one of those? It's the saddest thing I ever saw. I was truly traumatized and would NEVER ever recommend them to anyone. Lizards are just part of the habitat in some geographical areas.
I never saw anyone use one I was just suggesting. I didn't know they were bad
. My dad always used the poison when I was little and I would get so upset, mainly because when my little rodent pets got out they would eat the poison and end up dying themselves . I used to beg him to use something that wouldn't kill them like the sticky traps. I thought the lizard was inside the house!
. My dad always used the poison when I was little and I would get so upset, mainly because when my little rodent pets got out they would eat the poison and end up dying themselves . I used to beg him to use something that wouldn't kill them like the sticky traps. I thought the lizard was inside the house!
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juliefurry said:
I never saw anyone use one I was just suggesting. I didn't know they were bad . My dad always used the poison when I was little and I would get so upset, mainly because when my little rodent pets got out they would eat the poison and end up dying themselves . I used to beg him to use something that wouldn't kill them like the sticky traps. I thought the lizard was inside the house!
. My dad always used the poison when I was little and I would get so upset, mainly because when my little rodent pets got out they would eat the poison and end up dying themselves . I used to beg him to use something that wouldn't kill them like the sticky traps. I thought the lizard was inside the house!
absolutely no sticky tape, u would damage it trying to get it free...speaking on behalf of the lizard, let it be free..watch em, photograph em, draw em but don't take away their wildness..but that is just me, i am never putting another thing in a cage as long as i live again.
My mom found two small brown bats stuck to her sticky traps she had out for brown recluse spiders, sad sad sad..they were quite dead by the time she found them, a horrible way to die.
My mom found two small brown bats stuck to her sticky traps she had out for brown recluse spiders, sad sad sad..they were quite dead by the time she found them, a horrible way to die.
oh dear tht would be a really foolish thing to do!!!
i have two lizards, 1's 2 foot and the others only like 9 inches
each have very different and unique requirements,
you would need to keep it in a vivarium which is the most important bit, its a glass tank with ventilation in the sides and a mesh top, you would need to provided a heat source, depending on the type of lizards you would need to provide a Uv light as well,
reptiles are very prone to stress and it will most likely die even if you get all this stuff which would cost well in access of £150.
all in all its not a very good decision to make, its best if you just leave them wild.
i have two lizards, 1's 2 foot and the others only like 9 inches
each have very different and unique requirements,
you would need to keep it in a vivarium which is the most important bit, its a glass tank with ventilation in the sides and a mesh top, you would need to provided a heat source, depending on the type of lizards you would need to provide a Uv light as well,
reptiles are very prone to stress and it will most likely die even if you get all this stuff which would cost well in access of £150.
all in all its not a very good decision to make, its best if you just leave them wild.
When I was younger I would always catch lizards and put them in big jars with twigs and dirt and leaves. My longest one that I was able to keep was about 2 months and then my mom made me let it go.
As for catching them, been doing it all my life. In fact, I caught one yesterday just to see if I was still quick enough to do it.
What I normally do is move my hand about a foot or so from them. They'll stop and watch you. At that point you, very quickly now, aim for their head and then snatch them. By the time they realize the hand is coming at them and they start moving, you'll have grabbed them by the midsection. Don't try and grab for the midsection or you'll get the tail and have no lizard at all.
As for food, it's lovebug season so use those. Those little black bugs with the red tops
As for catching them, been doing it all my life. In fact, I caught one yesterday just to see if I was still quick enough to do it.
What I normally do is move my hand about a foot or so from them. They'll stop and watch you. At that point you, very quickly now, aim for their head and then snatch them. By the time they realize the hand is coming at them and they start moving, you'll have grabbed them by the midsection. Don't try and grab for the midsection or you'll get the tail and have no lizard at all.
As for food, it's lovebug season so use those. Those little black bugs with the red tops
Oh and to comment on the sticky traps.
The last mouse I saw that got stuck in one of those chewed its leg off trying to get free. This left for a very bloody mess as well as the mouse lurching forward and falling, face first, into the sticky stuff. It then smothered itself.
My parents refused to use the sticky traps any more. We moved to poison until our dog ate it and got really sick (she's fine now). Then we just let them go because the mouse traps never worked for us. But now we have three cats that we've acquired (they just started hanging around here) and they take care of the problems.
The last mouse I saw that got stuck in one of those chewed its leg off trying to get free. This left for a very bloody mess as well as the mouse lurching forward and falling, face first, into the sticky stuff. It then smothered itself.
My parents refused to use the sticky traps any more. We moved to poison until our dog ate it and got really sick (she's fine now). Then we just let them go because the mouse traps never worked for us. But now we have three cats that we've acquired (they just started hanging around here) and they take care of the problems.