PORTLAND (AP) — Police in the Maine city of Portland have captured a large lizard that’s been on the loose in a residential neighborhood.
Residents of a Deering home spotted the lizard in their backyard Thursday.
Police say the lizard , an Argentina black and white tegu, was living under a shed in an old groundhog burrow.
An animal control officer was able to capture the reptile in a net Saturday by using hardboiled eggs as bait.
The Portland Police Department posted on Facebook a photo of animal control officer Ruu Weist holding the lizard, which she described as “actually very friendly, if headstrong and stubborn.”
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