Osga

WARNING (!): This blog contains a disturbing image. A blood-sucking critter was definitely harmed in the making of this blog, but rest assured, it was for the health and safety of four persons. 

The other day, my housemate Edinea warned me there was a little intruder in our bathroom. She had grabbed a can of poison and sprayed it in the bathroom with high hopes that the neon green thing with bulging eyes would keel over and die within an hour.

It wasn´t until after she secured the bathroom area that Edinea thought of a better tactic--let Leona the cat into the house to hunt. Well, it was too late for Plan B because we didn´t want to be held responsible for "chloroforming" the cat.

Plan A: Death by Poison

Plan B: Death by Cat

Plan C: Death by "Suffocation" 

Val, another housemate, happened upon our conversation and marched straight to the bathroom to come to the rescue. She grabbed toilet paper and the next thing we knew, she was "suffocating" (in her own words) the thing to death between her blue Havaiana flip flops and the shower tile.

After all the commotion (no shortage of screams), I suggested that we keep the cat indoors from now on ;)

So these lizards, called osgas, eat mosquitos and spiders and other insects, but apparently they are rumoured to feed on human blood while people sleep. I looked it up online, and as far as I can tell it´s just a myth. Needless to say, that night, I slept with the sheets up to my chin and wrapped the blankets around my shoulders. I may have even switched the light on a few times to see if I could spy anything scurrying up and down the walls.

And now, to lighten up the mood for those of you who get queasy around creepy crawly things like I do. Rose taught us how to dance sambá in the kitchen. I can´t say I have it down pat, but I´ll be rehearsing the steps :)