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One of my dogs came and got me. I thought "oh no! I hope its not slithery with no legs".
Well it was kind of slithery but it has legs so not so bad.
This lizard had come in for a drink of the dogs water and gotten stuck in the mesh fence. The dogs gave it a few bites and while serious, I don't think the wounds will be fatal.
Mr Lizardo (who is 2ft long and 4" at least wide with long claws) was clever enough to play dead and fool the dogs.
I gingerly untangled him from the fence without getting bitten from him or the dogs, and dipped him in the dogs water to revive him and pull him out of the shock he looked to be going into. I released him into the 1/2 acre front yard where dogs have no access unless I let them.
I checked him hours later when I took these photos and left a half banana and a raw egg with the top cut off.

One very lucky lizard. What is there natural foods and what is the chance of it staying around?

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If he sticks around I will feed him until he is well enough to move and hunt. I think he may be a water dragon so I could take him down to the local river and release him.
He would eat eggs, birds, other lizards, frogs, fish, and anything else he can catch. He may even get a liking for bats down at the river.

Man, that's so cool, I wish we had those kinds of things happen here. We're stuck with oversize rodents getting caught in fences, never cool lizards!

Bren, thats an aussie water dragon.
Feed it crickets if you can find them, fruit, although im not sure if it will take banana, try tomatoes (cherry tomatoes) and other such matter.
I'd personally just let it go near some water - they dont live under water, just like to dive in it an swim, best chance its got really. More likely to be gotten by a bird or a snake if its just out in the open.
Good luck
James
p.s. - this is what babelfish calls a "bearded dragon"

http://www.kingsnake.com/oz/lizards/agamids/plesuerii.htm
Eastern water dragon came back and sat at the gate this time. Not silly enough to enter with the dogs. I gave him water which he sat in and drank.
I put him in a soft esky and carried him a couple of kms (seemed like miles) and put him on the waters edge of the Brisbane river. I coaxed him into the water reeds until sundown as picnicers may molest him. He is pretty tame.
Tomorrow he has a lovely big rock he can sit in the water on and sun himself.
He can catch his own food now. No way was I going to dig up meal worms and crickets for him.

I'm stuck with fat raccoons LOL.

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Raccoons are ace, if they are tame. They can flip out of control really easy though, and do serious damage, what about Skunks?




Surely this is a bit cuter?
Although ours is totally tame and dosn't spray.

I can't figure out if its more like a dog, a cat or a possum. You have wierd pets.

Probably more intelligent than a dog, cat or a possum.

I could play a nice joke on my landlady with a pet like that !!!!

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pet skunk would be awesome! apossum would be cool too! dang never even came to mind a skunk could be tame as a pet... how do you get a tame skunk? catch one or a baby or what???? i am very very curious!!! raccons are ugly and fat! lol

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Good work disentangling it. Handsome devil isn't it?


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