A Pet reptile was used as guard "dog"

While in Florida, we found the next best thing to a dog for alerting us that company or strangers, were in the yard was our flock or wild turkeys. If someone came into the yard the turkeys would raise a commotion and the tom turkey was know to attack if strangers came to close. I myself suffered from tom turkey's spurs more than once when I unknowing walked to close to his hens. It really hurts getting spured in the legs and beaten by his powerful wings. We had photograhers that suffered the same fate when trying to photograph the hens sitting on a nest of eggs.