The water monitor from Webster has been safely captured and will be relocated to RRS Oasis, a nonprofit animal sanctuary.

Tarbox lives in a 100-year-old home with a small pond in the backyard that overlooks Webster Lake, and he's looked in that pond to see if the lizard is hiding out. It's not, but Lutton admired Tarbox's bravery for even looking there.

Goose, a 5-foot-long Asian water monitor lizard that escaped a Massachusetts home and was spotted in Connecticut, is no longer on the loose.The Rainforest Reptile Shows organization, based in Beverly,