Lizard Rescue!

A few months back, as I was walking home from school, I came across 3 Primary 1 students from SAJS poking something with a stick. I decided to see what they were poking and to my horror, it was an innocent lizard! I told the boys off and carefully picked him up. He didn't struggle or put up a fight at all. That was not a good sign. I noticed he had many injuries. Serious ones too. He was missing scales everywhere, he was bleeding and the worst part was that he had a rubber band tied around his tail! I felt very sorry for the lizard - those boys were cruel to abuse him like that. 

I knew he would not be able to survive if left in the wild. He would be easy prey for birds. So I decided to take him home and try and nurse him back to health. 

We have a little garden in the common corridor just outside my flat. I figured he would be safe there because nobody could hurt him and he would not run far anyway because of his injuries. I fed him crickets and worms everyday. 

Look at him now! This is about 6 weeks later. However, he still has a dent in his tail left by the rubber band but other than that, he is looking happy and healthy. Maybe a little plump.

The recovered lizard. Still no name though. 

I think he's happy I found him and I'm happy I rescued him. It's pretty cool to have a living fossil in my garden!