Standing in the kitchen, serving myself dinner.
Thump, scrabble, scrape, thump, bump from the ceiling.
Possums? This early in the evening? How many of them are there?
The ceiling sounds like it's about to collapse. WALLOP.
Then it appears in the skylight in the kitchen.
A racehorse goanna.
That's when the fun begins.
How do we get it out?
There was much coaxing and many attempts to get it into a garbage bag so we could release it outside. It wasn't having a bar of it and jumped out onto the floor instead.
I did an impersonation of the guinea pigs, squealed loudly and jumped up on the sofa (essentially, I behaved like a great big girl's blouse!).
LomL and B1 eventually rounded it up (with no assistance at all from me or B2) and it was released into the backyard where it quickly scarpered off.
Thump, scrabble, scrape, thump, bump from the ceiling.
Possums? This early in the evening? How many of them are there?
The ceiling sounds like it's about to collapse. WALLOP.
Then it appears in the skylight in the kitchen.
A racehorse goanna.
That's when the fun begins.
How do we get it out?
There was much coaxing and many attempts to get it into a garbage bag so we could release it outside. It wasn't having a bar of it and jumped out onto the floor instead.
I did an impersonation of the guinea pigs, squealed loudly and jumped up on the sofa (essentially, I behaved like a great big girl's blouse!).
LomL and B1 eventually rounded it up (with no assistance at all from me or B2) and it was released into the backyard where it quickly scarpered off.
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| Removing the skylight cover to get to the goanna |
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| It was not impressed at being coaxed into a bag |
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| Fabulous fellow was hard to catch! |
Have you heard the story about how race horse goanna will run up the highest thing they can find? Which means the best option might be to lay on the ground! Not too sure whether it is bush lore or true but it kind of reminds me of The Gods Must Be Crazy (prob the second one) where the little boy tries to make himself taller than the hyena (but in the opposite sense........you know what I mean. I hope!)
ReplyDeleteI've seen the big Bungarras up north do that... climb people as if they were trees! But one doesn't think clearly when in a state of panic (hence the climbing up on the sofa). I even surprised myself as I'm not usually the "scream and scram" type. Heaven knows what I thought the poor creature would do to me... it was all that wriggling and jiggling...obviously more than I could sensibly handle.
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