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A Florida man faced a close call Wednesday morning. When he tried to use the restroom, he found an iguana inside of the toilet bowl.”So I walked in here and I lifted the lid and I went like that (opens lid) when I saw there was an iguana in there and it looked huge,” Rob Berntsson said.Berntsson said his first reaction was to jump back.”Absolute shock. I was just like, ‘Oh my God, it’s big and black. It’s something that I don’t want to see in there. It’s moving.’ I just got away as quick as I could,” he said.He called Seth Brattain with SlethReptiles, an emergency wildlife removal company, to help.”That’s a small one,” Brattain said. “They actually get about 12 to 18 inches long. They’re also living in the guy’s attic as well, so it’s not just in the toilet. They’re actually everywhere.”Because Berntsson is dealing with this iguana invasion, he set up several glue traps to catch the reptiles. These lizards are not just a nuisance in the home, but for native wildlife too.”They’re actually omnivores, so they’ll eat just about everything, anything they can fit in their mouth,” Brattain said. “When the gopher tortoises lay their eggs, these lizards actually eat their eggs, which is a huge problem because those tortoises are protected.”Berntsson said the trappers will be back at the home to hunt down more iguanas. For now, he has a plan.”I can tell you from now on, the lids on all the toilets in the house are going to be kept down!” he said.