MYSTERY surrounds a scorpion that was discovered in the home of a kitchen being played with by the family's cat.
It may only be just a bit bigger than a £1 coin, but the scorpion, which now has a new home at the Nuneaton and Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, is causing a big stir.
Geoff Grewcock from the Oaston Road-based sanctuary is caring for the scorpion, which is only a baby, after it was brought in by John Little on Sunday.
Mr Little, who is a partner at Hawkins estate agents, returned to his Coventry home after going out shopping when his wife Olga, told him that there was something in the kitchen for him to deal with.
What he found was something black under a glass which at first he thought was a spider, but as he got closer he saw that it was something completely different.
"My wife went into the kitchen on Sunday morning to find our cat, Scrappy, playing with the scorpion and she promptly put a glass over it,"he said.
"No one is sure where it could have come from, my wife and I have been out of the country recently and so have our neighbours so it could have come from there.
"But we know that it doesn't come from around here and it is causing a little bit of mystery, but hopefully that will be solved. Scrappy is fine as well and unharmed."
Geoff Grewcock says the baby being in the area is a mystery: "Scorpions are not common in this part of the country, further down south there are more, but around here it is something that I have never heard of," he said.
"So it is a bit of a mystery as to where it could have come from, but it isn't poisonous and we are looking after it now at the sanctuary.
"It's just a baby at the minute and will get quite a bit bigger, but it is eating well and we are feeding it crickets."
