Welcome to my house Varanoids lovers !!! Let me introduce myself. My name is Jean-Michel. I’m a 47 years old lizard… oops !!! frenchman & I share this house with my dutch wife Jolanda, my son Drake & all the cold blooded brothers & sisters monitor lizards. Since I was a kid I have always been attracted by all kind of animals & especially Lizards, the little fellas crawling between the rocks on the beaches of my mediterranean hometown in South of France : Toulon.

The years passed by & I left France to make a living & raised a family in The Netherlands in the city of Deventer. I spent the last 16 years enjoying the company of monitor lizards, sharing my everyday life with the specie Varanus Albigularis : a group of fourteen lizards (twelve Blackthroats & two Whitethroats) together with the specie Varanus Salvator : two unrelated specimens. The lizards used to roam free in our house but since the family expanded with the birth of our son Drake & seven little black throated monitors, I decided to give them the large attic as their new living quarter… I hope you will enjoy the pictures… I will try to find the time to update this site with more pictures (past trips in Indonesia: Komodo Island the home of the lizard king & Africa…)

Jean-Michel le Poder

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“If you tame me , then we shall need each other.
To me , you will be unique in all the world.
To you , I shall be unique in all the world.
You become responsible , forever , for what you have tamed.”-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
(Le Petit Prince).

Visitors since May 2008

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