Though Animal Services typically sends exotic pets to one of its rescue partners, they made an exception for the Brummetts because the couple had prior lizard experience, officials said. “He’s got a hammock, and he’s got a heat rock, and a hide, he’s got some Dubai roaches waiting for him and some super worms,” Chris says in the clip. Though Brummett said his wife “would have screamed crazily” if she were home when Falkor appeared, a video released by Animal Services on Tuesday shows Falkor perched on her shoulder while she caresses him and animatedly discusses his diet, habitat and plans for his care. An officer knowledgable in exotic animals informed them the bearded dragon, native to Australia, is legal to keep as a pet in the U.S.
Unsure whether the curious critter was poisonous, Brummett trapped it under a five-gallon painter’s bucket and called Animal Services to investigate. From left: Al Brummett, Animal Services Officer Harvey Beck and Chris Brummett pose with Falkor and the box he arrived in at their Hemet home in a photo released the Riverside County Department of Animal Services on June 7, 2018. Brummett immediately began attempting to calculate how long the cold-blooded creature could have been in the box - which he said was large but didn’t have any holes - and what land he could have come from. The bike arrived just two days after it was ordered, but the family said it originally came from China. “There he was, and he had this look, such as, ‘What the heck just happened?’” he said. “Here was this massive lizard looking over his shoulder at me.”’įalkor appeared just as startled by the encounter, according to Brummett. “At first I freaked out because he was so big,” Brummett said. But as Al was pulling the bike’s parts from the box and getting ready to assemble it, he suddenly felt a beady pair of eyes staring back at him, officials said in an earlier news release. Now named Falkor, after the dragon in the 1984 fantasy film “The Neverending Story,” the exotic lizard of mysterious origin has settled into his new home since arriving there on June 6, the Riverside County Department of Animal Services said Tuesday.Ī reptilian stowaway was not what Al and Chris Brummett had bargained for when they ordered a bicycle for one of their 19 grandchildren off. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Ī bearded dragon who unexpectedly showed up on a Hemet couple’s doorstep stashed inside a delivery package from Walmart is becoming part of the family. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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