5-foot Monitor Lizard Caught on Tape
Officer Jenny Selter, with the Riverside County Department of Animal Services, responded to a 2:30 p.m. call of the lizard loose at the complex inside the 2500 block of Grambling Way, mentioned John Welsh, Animal Services spokesman, in an e-mail. The 5-foot Monitor lizard wandering about a condo complex within the city of Riverside was way larger than animal control officer Jenny Selter could have imagined.
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Selter arrived to a entirely sudden locate — a 5-foot, 45-pound monitor lizard walking down a sidewalk in the complex, Welsh mentioned. The animal services department believes the lizard can be a pet that slipped from its owner’s house, he said. A reptile expert will care for it while it is with the shelter, Welsh mentioned. Monitors are native to Africa but will not be illegal to personal in California, he stated.
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