I have seen significant increase in garden lizards lately.
I am quite worried as my young kids play there.
Any suggestions to get rid of them or kill them naturally?
How to Get Rid of Garden Lizards
ShazOz on 12/03/2023 - 10:58
Last edited 12/03/2023 - 12:21 by 1 other user
Last edited 12/03/2023 - 12:21 by 1 other user
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Either a troll or a monster.
Clearly bait but in the small chance it isn't - You are a meany poo, OP.
These are harmless, leave them alone.
Lizards are one of the best things about being a kid in the garden.
Ridding then is monstrous
I hope you are trollingBBQ
"kill them naturally" lmfao
Troll post of the week? or Month?
kill them naturally?
Leave them alone and they will eventually die naturally. Apparently all living things do.
That might have been something to explain In your original post…
Mentioning this in your original post may have gotten you a slightly different response. May…..
Regardless, you really can't or shouldn't kill them. Perhaps there are ways to deter them from entering your premises?
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/animal…
Also pest control. If you Eliminate the bugs then you will eliminate there food source and less likely they will hang around your place
Why not treat your disorder (herpetophobia is a type of anxiety disorder called specific phobia) with therapy, rather than killing other living things?
I still think this is a troll post.
But if this is true, I think you should work through your fear with a psychologist, rather than use your fear as an excuse to kill innocent, harmless, blameless animals. What sort of lesson are you trying to teach your child about nature, understanding, tolerance, etc; with this approach? Turn this into a positive by demonstrating the importance of challenging your fears, and not being controlled by them.
I've had conversations with ShamRaz and it is no troll post.
The fear of reptiles is severe and debilitating. As a reptile handler/catcher I saw it everyday. I've seen people standing on tables with a blue tongue lizard on the floor. I took a harmless Python into my optometrist one day. He ran out of the shop and disappeared.
Must be a small world - you've had conversations with ShamRaz and are a reptile handler/catcher who has seen multiple people suffer from the same condition.
@Randolph Duke: My contractors have displayed wildlife including snakes and lizards to hundreds of thousands of people over the years in schools, shopping centres, corporate and public events over decades. Never once have I heard of anyone acting irrationally - sure many people don't want to touch, hold or even get too close BUT running out of the room or standing on tables - never seen it happen or heard of it.
Not discounting your experience @CurlCurl but this is far from normal, common or an everyday experience. As a accredited wildlife conservation … not many herpos,would tolerate or support this inanity.@[Deactivated]: I've also done many schools, boy scouts, companies, displays at festivals and Bunnings stores. Have had many many people turn and walk away. Had people scream and run away. Did an educational talk at an Energy Australia work site and had grown men standing on chairs. One house I went to had a blue tongue in a bedroom along with a woman standing on the bed. When I picked the bluey up she screamed and bolted out of the house.
I've done 1,000s of rescues (sadly can't do it now as I broke my hip). Maybe it's different with the rescues in peoples houses and yards. Can you imagine living in a block of units in Neutral Bay Sydney, open your dishwasher to see a Green Tree snake in there.
I'm sure you will agree that people need to be educated on OZ reptiles.
The two main phobias seem to be reptiles and spiders.
I have an 11year old grandson that has Astraphobia.
@CurlCurl: @CurlCurl Agree, thanks for trying to rationalise with OP.
As you know OP has to want to change and accept that their fear the cause of the problem - not the lizard - There is nothing better than seeing someone overcome their fear and connect with their environment. Perhaps OP should seek exposure therapy or even hypnosis … if all else fails?
Green Tree Snake in that location in a dishwasher - how cool and totally unexpected! Sorry to hear about the hip mate - all the best@[Deactivated]: Mate, I could talk for ages about the strange rescues. Two that stand out: a tiger snake 4 stories underground in the carpark at Westfield Bondi Junction and an Eastern Brown in the underground carpark at Meriton Towers in the heart of Sydney..
Probably also worth mentioning OP, graded exposure therapy for phobias is one of the strongest, most evidence based psychological approaches there is, so definitely worth a try. A lot of people don’t want to confront their phobias, which I understand, however you can’t be worrying about harmless lizards around your kids.
Pathetic. Just pathetic. I worry about OP’s kids as they have a parent who thinks that non-threatening wildlife must be killed so as to not impact the “wrapped in cotton wool” lifestyle they live.
Go and live in a skyscraper in an urban jungle somewhere, and never ever go into the country, or anywhere near nature or any kind.
And don’t swim in the ocean either. There’s fish… and sharks… and whales… or should they be “gotten rid of” too?
Did you not read this… the OP has Herpetophobia. Do yourself a favour and look it up.
I don't give a flying stuff what the OP has decided s/he suffers from. That's a piss poor excuse to kill wildlife and cotton-wool his or her kids. And making excuses for that behaviour is almost as bad.
Do yourself a favour and look at the bigger picture.
Herpetophobia - 'kill it, I'm scared' the world doesn't revolve around you nobody on this board want's to live in the sanitised wasteland you need due to your narcissistic self declared irrational fears. Ohh and now YOU change your story when YOU originally claimed YOU were concerned for the children - not yourself. FFSOPKYS
move to an apartment with no yard :P The lizards were here first. They won't hurt your kids.
Leave Oceania.
It's the only way to protect your kids.
I suppose geckos is a better word.
Perhaps we could all chip in and buy the OP and his kids a one way ticket to the NT - if there's concerns about several cm long garden skinks, it should be enlightening of their impressions of a 5m+ salt water crocodile.
Surely this is a hoax thread as I live in blissful ignorance hoping nobody could be this stupid.