Thread: Goanna

When we were living in Derby WA we were the first tenants in our company supplied brand new house, in our first week of being there our dogs started going off one night. I went to investigate and found the problem was a baby Perentie about 6-8" long eating out of the dog kibble. Our big dog a Sharpei X was really concerned about it and carrying on. I removed said lizard and took it for a walk over to the mud flats albeit in the nude at 02:00. A few days later whilst i was up the GRR, her esteemed excellency calls on the Sat Phone, the lizard is back and it's hanging on to Reggies nose. My response was just go out there and it will probably break loose and run off. It did! Straight up her leg.. neighbours were quickly in attendance with all the commotion. Lizard was quickly and unceremoniously removed to the mudflats again!...Upshot of it all was what we think was the same Perentie over a couple of years until we left regularly visited and tormented the dogs and left in awe of it's growth rate. The whole time my little bloke watched this beautiful creature come and visit us, get rid of a few pests like the bloody crickets. Somewhat a symbiotic relationship. Gee the only reptiles that visit us now is the odd Black and Brown snakes. The Sharpei X is now gone and our vet suspects that it was Brown that got her. So, whenever our 3yo daughter comes in from the back yard and tell us there is a pretty stick in the yard we start running.

Oh how I miss The Kimberley.


Cheers.
Rob

My wife took these snaps out the front of our place a couple of weeks back.