The weather here has been great lately so yesterday I open my doors and I was in the kitchen making some salsa. Then I see something running across the floor. This is the anole that has been evading arrest for quite some time and just flat out taunting me.
So as I'm going to grab the blow gun to take care of business I see another one jump off my bean bag. I shot that one right through the neck, picture below....I got him right under the kill zone though, right in his dewlap. He was playing dead in the picture and did a really good job at it. So I left him there on the floor and went to the patio and took out two others. It seems everytime I shoot one I would find 5 more! They are everywhere! Then when I came back inside the one that was already impaled took off under my kitchen table where the elusive anole came out to greet him and wrestle (seriously I wish I had video of this because it was pretty funny). So I thought cool, he lured out the one that is taunting me, now is my chance... But for some reason I just can't seem to ever get a clear shot on that one and he got away. As for the one that was impaled, I put him and another one I shot in the foot in my pacman frog "Killa's" aquarium. To catch them, since they were running impaled, I got my magnet that is capable of lifting 200lbs and stuck em to that. Kinda like when people put fish on a stringer, I was putting impaled anoles on a huge magnet. I'll have to take pictures next time. Anyways, I fed these things to Killa. Pacman frogs can safely eat anything half their size and have been known to try to eat things that are even bigger than them so he had no problem eating the anoles.
The impaled anole
Killa, when he was a baby. He's 4 times as big now and eats adult mice, lizards, gold fish, crickets, pretty much anything anything he can get in his mouth.
2 comments:
You shoot the things?? That is a pretty funny visual though of him jumping through the air as you shoot him. The kids would've gotten a kick out of seeing them running them through your house while we were there. I don't remember seeing any.
There's a couple reasons you didnt see them
*The apartment was really crowded. 7 people in there!
*I only had one at the time. Summer, kept the doors closed. There was one but he was hiding under the furniture. He finally came out from hididng and got in my shoe shortly after you left.
*They have been breeding like crazy recently and now I have more than ever before..
Did you see the house geckos when you were out? I like those. They are welcome in my house anytime.
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