My cat brought in what I thought at first was a super itsy-bitsy baby snake & I pushed her away from it and scooped it up in a cup and it had little, crazy legs. My cat didn't seem to have done any real damage to it, which is astounding because this thing was thinner than a pencil and only about 9cm - but when I got it in the cup it was trying super hard to play dead. So I didn't know if it needed help or where to put it or wtf it was. I went to put it in a mason jar and when I was switching it from the cup to the jar, it's tail broke off - which scared the shit out of me because it's tail was legit 1/2 its entire body - but then I'm like, "oh, it's some weird lizard" and so I put it in the mason jar, with a square of that non-slip, drawer liner stuff, between the glass & the metal twist-on rim -- instead of the little metal circle - so that whatever it was wouldn't suffocate while I tried to figure out wtf it was. I left it in the bathroom for about 20 minutes with the door open & light on - but none of the lizards on google looked quite the same so I went back in to give it a closer look. It was still clinging to the side of the glass and I noticed it had some super funky eyes like definitely not a lizard eye - I went back out to search for the answer, but this time I turned the light off. I ended up finding out that it was some kind of SLENDER SALAMANDER that only comes out in the dark/night and when it's just rained (it rained today) and apparently this fucking thing is also a hell of a contortionist because it can squeeze into termite holes - it also doesn't have lungs somehow & therefore, needs to be moist to breathe (?) - So clearly, this animal makes no fucking sense & I want absolutely nothing to do with it. Not only does it have gross, bug-eyes - apparently it's also a needy little pain in the ass that's always sticky and has to have all this high-maintenance, special care. I want no part of it. If it were a BABY lizard that was gonna grow into those eyes at some point, I would've kept it as a pet - at least until the weather warms up... but I found out online that my kitty problem got it from the creek behind the house and I should just take it back out there and put it under some leaves below a tree - so it can do it's thing... it's gross, slimy, thing... buuuut, when I went back into the bathroom - the jar was empty and there was like "snail trail" slime on the lid that I made. (I tried to look for more slime-trail, but no such 'luck'.) ... So now - I just basically killed a salamander, because I can't find it (they're known for hiding well I guess) - but I don't know what to do. I AM UNCOMFORTABLE WITH IT JUST LIVING-TO-DEATH (however briefly) IN MY BATHROOM - I feel like it's gunna just appear at some point when I'm not expecting it and startle the crap out of me or like, be clinging to the back of my hairbrush or on my towel - & I can't deal... What do I do?! I feel like I have these 2 options - Should I tear my shit apart and look for the thing? Or should I spray like 6 cans of air freshener in there and close the door? (That would kill it because they can't handle chemicals - like, at all... not even tap water.) --- The not knowing is what's getting to me - I cannot be in the shower with this thing, or have it in my shoe, or if I STEP ON IT - Uhhh, Gaaallll.
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