The couple found a lizard in the refrigerator that had lived in a pack of spinach for more than a week (4 photos + 1 video)

When you go to the kitchen to cook dinner and start taking out ingredients from the refrigerator, your first concern is whether the what is the expiration date and is there really enough of everything - other thoughts somehow even does not occur. Judging by this story, in vain. Next time make sure your products are definitely not claimed by an uninvited guest ...





32-year-old Katherine Bacon from Sussex pulled out of the refrigerator a pack of spinach and was about to start cooking when she noticed something strange among the green leaves. Upon closer examination, it turned out that inside is a 10 cm lizard that lay there nine days since the spinach was bought and put in the refrigerator.



Katherine screamed, and her husband immediately rushed to the scream, 36 year old James Bacon. After examining the package, he decided that the lizard was dead, because she lay belly up and did not move.

“We bought spinach and got a pet as a gift,” says James. “My wife took the spinach [out of the fridge] and yelled, ‘What what the hell is that?" We were shocked. We couldn't believe it. She lay there for about eight days. We, of course, decided that she dead, but then I poked the bag a little. Apparently she was sleeping, but here I woke up and started crawling over the bag."

“When she started to move, we were in shock: “Oh my God, she is alive. What do we do with her?” James added.





Then the couple took their new friend to the Rescue Center reptile RSPCA in Brighton in the hope that they can find a home for him, and one of the local volunteers is reportedly considering taking reptile as soon as it has waited out the quarantine period.

The head of the RSPCA's reptile department in Brighton said: "At the moment he is fine. They are not often kept in captivity, and they are quite mysterious and little-studied creatures. Many European species at this time years fall not quite into hibernation, but into a similar state. Probably, so he managed to survive [in the refrigerator], unlike more tropical species [which would fail]. He will be relocated to a large, natural aviary that mimics his home as much as possible environment so that he can live as well as possible in the current conditions when he, Unfortunately, he ended up in captivity."

In the video taken by James, you can see how a small lizard peeps out of the package, and the spouses are trying their best not to let him run away.

A spokesman for the Lidl supermarket where the spinach was bought said: “We were very sorry to hear about this as we are by no means We want the client to be dissatisfied with something. We work closely with our suppliers to ensure that the products we sell are meet the highest possible quality for our customers. We are therefore disappointed that our expected high standards were not met. performed in this case. After the client's initial contact with our customer service on January 8, the issue was immediately forwarded to our a quality assurance department that is in touch with the customer.”