Why? When? And, more importantly—how?
I know you are all madly curious to discover the outcome to the lizard adventure (see my two previous posts if you aren’t up to speed), but we need to pause for just a moment and ask ourselves some important questions.
How did the lizard get into the house?
This is a piece of critical information that is sadly lacking. You see, when I lived in a NYC apartment and we had a mouse, it was possible to find a hole in the wall behind the stove where the gas pipe came into the apartment. The proper procedure when dealing with uninvited guests is:
- Get over the shock.
- Remove the interloper.
- Figure out the point of entry.
- Close it.
This worked very well with the mouse. You do have to remember that I was not the person who accomplished the removal. At that stage of my personal growth, it was a triumph not to remove myself. Nonetheless, the mouse was gone, and we were reasonably certain it wasn’t coming back.
So, how did the lizard get into the house? Lesser questions—more a matter of curiosity than critical pieces of information—are why did the lizard get into the house and when?
I can’t say for sure, but I assume the when was not too long before I discovered it. Lizards, unlike spiders, aren’t known for skulking in the shadows and lying in wait. In addition, there’s not that much for a lizard to eat in this house (I hope and pray). Any lizard that has been here for any length of time would not need catching and releasing. It would need sweeping up.
The why is immaterial except insofar as it has an impact on future preventive measures. I suppose he thought it was a good idea at the time. (I’ve gotten myself into some predicaments in the same way.)
The how, though. The how is a puzzlement.
Definitely something that deserves consideration. Unfortunately, I think I’ll be wondering about that for a while. I suspect, since I don’t have a ravening horde of invading lizards—and I do have a lot of lizards outside—that it’s not some breach in the home’s defenses like a hole in a wall.
I think it’s more a crime of opportunism. The lizard saw an open door and took a chance.
I’m going with that, anyway, in the absence of any other theories.
And tomorrow, I will tell you what happened in the great lizard wrangling of 2013.
