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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 137466" data-attributes="member: 27677"><p>Hey guys, I just read through this, very cool ! Monitors would be about the only local lizards I haven't kept, my brother and I could never catch them no matter what we came up with. Probably for the best really, I would say the metre long ones we usually saw would have ripped us up! A young guy that used to hang around my shop often brought in lizards he'd caught to show me, one time he brought in a pygmy monitor not much bigger than this one only it was wild and not a baby so it was very aggressive, it absolutely hated him and used to latch onto him every chance it got! It thought it was killing him but really the bites looked more like a rash, maybe a tiny bit of blood. Seeing the pictures brought back the memory. Luckily, much as I used to do,  he was allowed to bring whatever he caught home, but had to take it back to the bush on the next trip, especially if it wasn't settling in well.</p></blockquote><p></p>