CBC Cape Breton Information Morning and Angie Mac Lellan

Adam Currie: As they settled into their home and unpacked their suitcases, Mac Lellan husband, Adam Currie, got quite a shock. "Out, ran up his arm, a one-foot-long lizard," she told CBC Cape Breton Information Morning. "He forest green, he has yellow spots on his torso and yellow lines on his tail, according to CBC. He a little chubby thing." Angie Mac Lellan and her husband found the lizard in a suitcase after arriving home in Cape Breton following a trip to Cuba. After spending a night in Halifax, the couple drove home to Sydney Forks in Cape Breton. The couple rigged up an old sunflower seed bucket to put the lizard in, adding a gardening pad at the bottom for its comfort. She said George is being kept in quarantine, which is standard in instances such as this. They then contacted the Department of Natural Resources, Mac Lellan said, given "we did kind of transport an illegal immigrant." Mac Lellan said her husband also went to the pet store to buy crickets to feed the lizard, which by this point had a name — George. "There was a lot of wild dogs in Cuba, so I was calling them all George," Mac Lellan said. "So when I got extra company on the way home, I started calling him George." The couple ended up dropping George off with officials at the Department of Natural Resources. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.