On Aug. 2, Capt. Scott Amati of the Massachusetts Environmental Police spent his afternoon in Douglas with some hard-boiled eggs and pieces of chicken.
The food, however, was not for a picnic. The food was used for capturing a water monitor lizard named Goose, who had escaped its home in Webster on July 18.
A search was launched for the runaway 4-foot reptile, which had been spotted in both Massachusetts and Connecticut. The search officially ended on Saturday, with Amati and others catching the lizard, who was hiding in a hole near Southwest Main Street…