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Family pet latches onto owner’s hand
On Monday, July 27, 2009 at around 2:30 in the afternoon,
the Big Bear City Fire Department received a 9-1-1 call regarding an exotic
lizard bite on Highway 38, east of Onyx Summit. Upon arrival to the scene, a
car traveling up bound on Highway 38, a man was found with a Mexican Beaded
Lizard bite to his hand. The exotic lizard is apparently a family pet and
was traveling in a plastic container in the car. The owner reached into
steady an item and that is when the lizard latched onto his hand. The man
was transported by Big Bear City Fire Department paramedics to Bear Valley
Community Hospital.
The amazing Mexican Beaded Lizards are quite unique among
the reptiles. It is one of two species of venomous lizards in the family
Helodermatidae. Both species are similar in appearance and habits, but its
venomous cousin, the Gila Monster, is slightly smaller and more colorful.
Mexican Beaded Lizards do not make good “pets”. Both of
these species are sluggish in habit, but they have a strong, tenacious bite;
with a 'bulldog' attitude of not wanting to readily let go. Something the
owner learned the hard way.
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