South Africa: Karoo creatures who make themselves at comfy in your house

Very little beats the sight and sound of fish eagles hunting down by the river, herons flying overhead, or hearing the bark of a baboon in the distant krantzes.

But sometimes the wildlife seems a little too keen on sharing your house and your food with you. 

During our years in Cradock, I’ve handled skinks and lizards, wasps, gigantic rain spiders, umpteen birds (mostly those inquisitive Cape Robin-Chats), a Karoo toad, too many grasshoppers and crickets to mention, and a rather special…