Thursday, March 30, 2006

Lizards! Yuck!

I am most afraid of lizards and yet I killed more than 50 of this disgusting insects of my lifetime. In my house, I slay about 10 of them and the rest is outside my house.

The problem is once I discovered there a lizard roaming at my house most probably in kitchen or toilet......I can't sit, I can't pee peacefully and I can't sleep until I get rid of this pest. Chasing them take some skill though as they will hide behind cardboard or pipes.

My mum even brought some lizard sticking paper. Just place sticky paper on lizards path for the next few days you see lizard stuck there struggling for it life. After catching few lizards this way, they got smart and subsequently we can't catch them anymore using this method even if I were to place different location. They went into hiding mode

Oh yes, even more frustrating is to clear lizard's shit. If I were to chase the lizards away instead of killing them, they would appear again.

My philosophy is this, kill one to warn a hundred.

Somehow I feel lizards able to recognize me. Whenever I'm back from work arriving at my front door, and if they see me, they will start running back to their habitat which is located near my row of pot of plants.

Killing them is an art, I don't just fold newspaper and smack it till all the juices splatter all over the wall. Very troublesome and need to clean up afterward esp at home.

For an example, if I discovered a lizard in my sink, I would let the irritating pest tastes steam bath. I'll throw boiling hot boiling water onto it. Died within one second, almost painlessly.

Last night while I was bathing suddenly a lizard came into sight near the toilet bowl, quickly I used my water hose onto the lizard just like the police use water cannon to quell violent riots.

As usual, it's started run for it life however I was fast enough to hold him to one corner with my water spray till it exhausted. As expected, this little fellow knew his time is up and use desperation move; act dead tactic. When I senses it become almost motionless, I opened the toilet drain cover let lizard flow along the water and into the drain where it suppose to belong.

This process took me about 15 minutes and after when I'm done, I felt safe, secured and of course the feeling of such achievement really made my day.
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