Lizard 101

[torijo10]

I thought it was pretty disgusting, in a cool way, when I learned that lizards can detach from their tales. I thought it was pretty disgusting, in an annoying way, when I learned that dead lizards on the bed are Scrappy’s screwed up, cat-form of chocolates and roses. I have now learned how amateur my use of the word “disgusting was,” however.

Yesterday, Scrappy killed a lizard. I shook said lizard out of the house, pretty much my standard operating procedure for dead lizards. I proceeded to clean the entire house manically - pretty much my standard operating procedure for the house - and in doing so, had to take garbage outside. As I did so, I noticed Lizard, of the Scrappy killed fame, was still lying near the garbage can where I had shook him. I noticed him because he looked different. It was a peripheral view noticing, so I zoomed in to figure out the how and why. He looked different because his skin appeared to be crawling. Only it wasn’t his skin. It was the ants that were slowly consuming him. I left Lizard to his fate because, after all, it’s only biology, and, again, stopped up all cracks coming into the house.

Sigh. My kingdom for weather-proof windows and doors...