This is Africa!

Yesterday afternoon I heard Diva, our boelboel, barking outside my study. Her barking has a special character when there is some kind of intruder. Just by luck I had one of my cameras in my hands when I went out to have a look. I immediately saw what it was that had upset her: a big leguan. The animal was at least 1½ meter long, and quickly went down into the pool. The dogs were running around the pool, and the leguan was swimming around, sometimes coming to the surface. We took the dogs away, inside the house, and after a while the leguan got out of the pool and disappeared into the nature reserve!

Later in the afternoon, after Leona had made some phone calls to the university in Pretoria, and being referred to different persons, she got connected to a vet in Nelspruit. He had been working at the game reserve at Timbavati, but now working at the Parks Board in Nelspruit. He took care of our little squirrel and will do his best to keep it alive!