Meet Lucky Lizard who lives in the front garden in the base of the olive tree. We don't see him every day but he quite often comes out and walks around, sunbathes for a bit, darts for safety if there is movement and somehow has managed to avoid getting caught by Pip. When she sees him she rushes over but he's quick enough to get into a space too small for her - behind plant pots, back into his tree hole, up inside a drain pipe sometimes. The cut branch that Lucky is sitting on is about 5 inches across, so we reckon he must be about 6 inches and his tail even longer than that.
A few weeks ago Lucky Lizard was out for his afternoon stroll, Monty was lying on the doorstep and watched him for ages before summoning up the energy to chase him.
It's strange though, because neither of the dogs chase after the sparrows or chaffinches in the garden, they even sit on the dog's water bowl drinking and peck at their dog biscuits and are ignored totally.
Actually this is Lucky 2, a couple of years ago we had Lucky 1 who was much bigger and used to live in a drain pipe and was usually around the washing machine, but we realised that we hadn't seen him for quite a while then Lucky 2 came along. Maybe this is Son of Lucky - sounds like the title of a horror movie!
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