A Pet reptile was used as guard "dog"

Makes sense to me, somewhat at least.  I am not too surprised by reading things or hearing about things like this anymore, though.  These days the news is so strange that these things just slide right off.  They are always fun to read though and see what people are up to out there.  I know that I have seen some pretty serious looking reptiles in my day.  But they were pretty easy to avoid.