Lizard survives washing machine spin

Subject: ~~Lizard survives washing machine spin ~~ Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:35 pm

A rare lizard survived a 3,000-mile flight in a freezing cold luggage hold only to then be put through the wash by an unsuspecting holidaymaker.

Company director Sue Banwell-Moore had returned from a holiday in the Cape Verde islands with a friend when she found the brown 6in (15.2cm) long Chioninia lizard among her washing.
Ms Banwell-Moore said after the initial shock she realised it must have stowed away in her suitcase and travelled all the way back to her house in Churchinford, near Taunton, Somerset.
She said she has since grown rather fond of the lizard, which she has named Larry.
''I got home on the Tuesday and it was snowy in the Blackdown Hills, and we got back in the early hours of the morning so it wasn't until the next day when I did a couple loads of washing that I found him,'' she said.
''I put the first lot out and then when I put the second lot out on to the clothes horse to dry, I looked down and there was this lizard on the floor. It was just sort of there.

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