Water meter crawdads

So I went to shut off the water the other night because it was supposed to get close to freezing.

On the way there, I noticed a couple of crawdad holes near the water meter, and I thought "I wonder if there are crawdads living in the water meter hole?"

See it's been raining here like crazy and the hole that houses the water meter is usually full of water.

And sure enough when I opened the cover to the water meter there was a nice big crawdad sitting on top of the dial.

I just hope they never decide to attack my hand when I put it down there.