Tiú: the dirty ol' egg sucking lizard

Monday, while hanging out, enjoying the holiday, making sushi and chocolate mousse, we heard the dogs going crazy inside the casinha. Eduardo heard the ruckus over the mixer. We both went over to check it out, and found the dogs had cornered a huge lizard behind the door propped up against the back of the house. And this is the kind of lizard that eats chicken's eggs, and chicks as well when it has the chance. Therefore, its not particularly welcome on the farm. Eduardo managed to grab its tail, but it just shed that section of tail. Eduardo got a hold of it once more, but it just shed more tail. So it was left to fend for itself against the dogs.

I didn't manage to get a photo of that particular Tiú, but I did manage to get a photo of a smaller one that Eduardo and his dad caught last week.