Stacey Vavrinek and her neighbor were seated at their picnic table when she noticed something move out of the corner of her eye.
In the plastic dinosaur that adorned her cactus and succulent garden, something — or someone — was hiding. “His small head was popping out of the dinosaur when I glanced down,” Vavrinek told The Dodo.
There are two things Vavrinek’s garden is full of: lizards and plastic dinosaurs. But she’d never seen one inside the other.
“My neighbor Michael is an avid gardener and has the most amazing plants. As a joke, I hide dinosaurs in his garden in the middle of the night,” Vavrinek said. “Then he puts them in my garden, and it just goes back and forth as a joke between neighbors. Now everybody’s got millions of dinosaurs in their gardens.”
The lizard seemed to think he was blending in wonderfully, but Vavrinek felt he looked like he was dressing up for Halloween.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Vavrinek posted on Facebook. “In my dinosaur from my cactus garden, there’s a small lizard… I believe he is attempting to trick-or-treat.”
The lizard was definitely at ease in the dinosaur and chose to make it his permanent residence. The young lizard may now be spotted basking on the edge of the cactus garden or resting in his favourite dino, more than a week later.
In Vavrinek’s Florida neighborhood, he’s also become a bit of a celebrity.
“I checked on him today when I got home from work, and he is in the dinosaur,” Vavrinek said. “He’s not afraid of us, but so many people have been coming to look at him that he’s a little shyer and gets a little bit deeper down into the dinosaur.”
The plastic dinosaurs have brought Vavrinek and her neighbor joy — and she’s glad a little animal is finding comfort in them as well.
“He just loves it,” Vavrinek said. “He just sits in there and he just loves it. So that’s just where he’s living right now.”
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