Lizards in the house.......
 

Ok, the other day while walking barefood in my kitchen i took a step and feelt something wiggle out from underneath. After freaking out, I looked down to see a baby geiko/newt/lizard? It was too fast for me to catch and went under a cabinet? I swear that it seemed to be looking back to me!!!

My hubby just informed me that he saw a baby lizard in the den on the window? but it went behind the couch before he could catch it.


The one I saw was green, his was pink.

Now there is a full sized geiko at our kitchen window (outside). Which I just apologized to for stepping on her baby.

Suggestions?????

We had one that lived on the wall behind the clock in our kitchen once. I left it there, and it must have eventually found it's way outside because our house became so quiet I checked behind the clock, and he'd gone.

Hopefully he'll survive on little insects that sneak in through your fly screens, and leave for the great outdoors in his own time. :D

Yeah, I have a suggestion!!!


MOVE!!!!!

lol

I can only imagine my reaction if I saw a lizard on my floor, then heard my husband saw ANOTHER one in another room, and then I saw one outside my window.

ALASKA, here I come!!

lol

How cool is that!! I'd rather have them than the bugs they eat. Your house will be bug free in just a short time. Then, like Anne said, they will find their own way out.

I have mice. Want to trade?

look at it this way you wont have any roaches or insects in the house, would suggest a walk around the house find where they might be getting in?

Carolina's right, geckos are great !!

they work for free, keeping the bugs down.

plus, they provide entertainment for our kitty with their dashing ways.

when they're just hatched (or born, whatever) they've very very small, and can easily get inside... if your doors are tight-fitting, and your screens un-holey, they'll stay, and make a nice chirruping noise, while they work.

when we moved from the guesthouse to our new home (across the property) at first, there were no geckos to sing us to sleep.

after a couple of weeks, we started seeing them, little tiny ones, an inch or two long.

that's what makes a house a home... and we're GLAD to have 'em around !!

geckos totally ROCK !!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko

only drawback is gecko-poop, which shows up around the baseboards, and sometimes on the bookshelves.

but I consider that a *small* price to pay for all the hard work the geckos do eating flying and crawling bugs which might bite ME...

:D:):D

we love geckos also...they are great for bug insurance....



but you may not want to use that gecko in your house for auto-insurance...try Geico instead.... ;)

Awww Kayo Kay, that sounds cute (the babies not the poop).
I have 3 gecko's upstairs....in my son's room in aquariums. He just loves them. He is often someplace else & calls to have me go spray them with water or turn on/off the heat lamp. He had another that was very sick & he 'ran' to the vet with it as he wimpered (It was so sweet to see a 22 yr old cry over an animal. I can tell he has that special thing inside that a young lady loves.)
Any of you can send your lizards to Ohio & he'd be happy to care for them.

I think you are all INSANE!!!! lol

years ago, when I visited my parents in Florida (for the first time), when I was 24 years old, I went into this beautiful Florida house, inside in their beautiful Florida room (filled with bright gorgous light pastel furniture), and then went outside to their beautiful outside patio.

I sat down near where my dad was working. I sat on a chaise lounge sort of thing.

I said "Daddy, what are you doing? and he said: "I'm cleaning out these patio tiles, and replacing them". As he said this, SOMETHING JUMPED OVER ME".

I saw my head go from right to left as this THING jumped over me.

I tend to go numb when I'm scared, so I just went numb.

I then looked at my dad, slowly got up and walked over to where he was.

Do you know what he was doing?? As he was pulling up the tiles, hundreds of baby lizards were jumping up in the air. Did that bother my father?? Oh No, he just kept pushing to the side as he replaced the patio tiles. He would say out loud "look at these little things, get out of here, as he brushed them aside with his hands.

I thought the man lost his mind. I said as much. I then ran into the house and these things followed me inside my mother's house, and I'm screaming and she comes out with her broom thinking someone is attacking me. When she saw the lizards in the Florida room, she just shrugged and said "oh those things, we have them all the time".

Don't ask me how long it was till I visited them again. I still think they lost their minds.

lol

Awww Melody, A group of teeny baby geckos sounds cute. My sis in Texas has them. Then pest around here are ants. Each spring we get them in the house. I don't want to find them in the food. (When I was young, at home I opened a can of Crisco that was in the cupboard near the sink & found about 50 ants crawling around.) At home now, we buy those ant traps that go in the ground & I put them on each side of the house. Inside, in the kitchen, I put a couple ant traps on the floor. I put one just outside of the back door (but hid it so the dogs won't find it) so the little buggers won't march in.

One question. How did the ants get in the Crisco? If the cover was on?

Oh, I told Alan about this thread and he went on the Internet to learn about lizards.

Well, he comes into where I'm sitting and he goes "I now know a lot about lizards". and I said: "Oh really, do tell!!" and he says;

"Well, there's a lizard called the Blood Lizard whose enemy is the cayote, and when confronted by a cayote, he releases blood from a sack underneath his eyes and the cayote runs away".

I just sat there looking at him (he was all fascinated by his own telling of this).

Then he says to me (and I kid you not). he says:

"Melody, do you want to know what lizard you should never go near", it's the most dangerous lizard in the world". I said 'go ahead" and he goes:

"you should never go near a Komodo Dragon".

I said (in all sincerity).

"Alan, one think you never have to be worried about is me....going anywhere near ....A KOMODO DRAGON"

Then I laughed my head off.

Oh, he continued to tell me that lizards LOVE to eat ants.

Just the conversation I wanted to have.


Yuck. lol

It was the plastic lid, not the original. But still, it shouldn't have gotten ants. They were the tiny red ones (or babies?). My sis & I made cookies (mostly me) & maybe I didn't put it on good. Heck, I was only about 10.

Oh, you know, My neice has a couple 2 3 ft. lizards in cages in the basement at her mom's house. (She's an animal nut) She wants to give one to my son, but, no way.

Oh My God.

That's all I can say.

My friend around the corner, well her husband LOVES gekkos. He has 4 tanks. FILLED with these things. I once went to their house and almost stepped on one.

Then I found a cricket on their stairway. Seems they FEED the crickets to the lizards.

I once said "how on earth can you have 4 tanks filled with lizards in your home".

She said 'They are not mine, they're HIS!!! "

lol

Woooo Hooooo they eat ants?????

Ive got those small biting black ants in the kitchen. Hope they get em!!!!!!

BTW after making this post yesterday, there were a total of 5 lizards on my screen!!!!!

They r stalking me!!!!

City girls!! We have non-poisonous snakes here, between them and our cats, we have no mice!!!! Snakes are entertaining in many ways.
DD was at a 3-day event in Baltimore (with another mom). One night she stepped on a dead rat. Another girl in the group screamed. The scary thing was in nightime Baltimore, no one responded.

Foxes (red and gray), bunnies, snakes, groundhogs, spiders, deer, lots of toads in the night, and owls - what we see, anything else I don't know about.

no foxes here!!!!!

Rat snakes (hatched in my house), water moccassins, those silly birds that nest under over hangs, turkey vultures w/ attitudes!!!!, spiders, scorpions, fire ants, skunks, armadillos (although i.ve never seen live ones), turtles, frogs, bunnies, packs of wild dogs, coyotes and a bunch of unidentified insects.

So really lizards in the house......not a big concern.

LOL :winky:

"Rat snakes (hatched in my house), water moccassins, those silly birds that nest under over hangs, turkey vultures w/ attitudes!!!!, spiders, scorpions, fire ants, skunks, armadillos (although i.ve never seen live ones), turtles, frogs, bunnies, packs of wild dogs, coyotes and a bunch of unidentified insects."

I would DROP DEAD WHERE I STOOD if I saw ANY of this.

I think I just might joint a monestary.

What's a turkey vulture by the way??
lol

OH!! :eek: How lucky you are. ;) I live in the city and there is NO chance I'd ever have a Geiko in my house unless I went out and bought one. I love lizards and reptiles of all kinds. I have an iguana right now, one of a longline of many I've had over the past few years. I only read your first post so I don't know how your situation has resolved itself but if it were me, I'd be feeding them. :D Giving them names and trying to talk them into staying. :wink: Lizards are just Too Cool.

It's now official!!!

You are ALL insane!!!

lol

Lizards as pets...giving them names, feeding them.....oh my god!!! lol

Aww, Come on, open your mind up JUST a crack. Just because they are another lifeform doesn't mean they aren't just GREAT. :D I should find the sites for you that honour and revere them. There is a whole world of Reptile lovers out there.

Let me get a pic of my girl here and show you just how pretty she is. She's my Baby, my Girl. She is always close to me here and shows Love and affection and she does KNOW some words. She is just about as smart as a stupid puppy. :D ;)

They ARE fun.

LOL Melody

Add me to your list of insane people. The first time I ever saw a gecko was on my sister's carport roof in Texas. I thought they were sooo cute. They don't bite or carry disease - better yet, they feast on those who DO bite and carry disease. :)

I'd much rather have a couple of cute little geckos running around my home than have to use a can of Raid to get rid of insects. I suspect they would also keep my cat entertained and in shape. :p

The only natural insect repellents we have here are spiders, and unfortunately they LOVE me. For about a two-year stretch I used to find spiders crawling on me several times a day, even though we didn't seem to have any spiders in the house. When I'd be watching TV with my husband, one would come down from the ceiling and stop right in front of my face. :eek:

At my son's high school graduation, one crawled up my leg and sat on my knee. I was in the kitchen talking with my son one day and he saw a spider move from the corner of the kitchen ceiling to just above my head, then start to come down for a landing. He caught it before it reached my head. Another time I was washing dishes, and one appeared on the side rim of my glasses, then walked onto the lens right in front of my eye. :eek:

I read an article a couple of years ago that said scientists were studying the silk from spiders and compared it to amyloid fibrils. I have amyloidosis, so I suspect "my spiders" think I'm some long lost relative. :rolleyes: We've made a truce though - I no longer kill them, and they no longer stalk and walk on me. :p

Oh My God!!!

That's all I can say.

You should see me when I go out to throw the garbage. My landlord keeps the pails on the right side of my house. He lives in the house next door to mine.

Every single summer I go by the pails and THERE IS ALWAYS A NEST OF A GAZILLION ANTS. I don't know where they come from, but every summer I take straight bleach, and pour the whole bottle right along their trails.

It works for a long time. I also do the bleach thing in front of my doorway.

I hate bugs, ants, ANYTHING THAT CRAWLS.

Yuck.

And you say you have spiders that are attracted to you??

Oh my god.

I remember well, when, years ago, my family had some sort of reunion at some hotel upstate. I was 18 or so. There was this gigantic table of food, and the men were grilling along the right of the big table. About 10 feet away.

All of a sudden, the bees started coming.

Now who in their right mind would sit at a table where bees are landing on their food??

Why my whole family of course!!!

I said "Are you people out of your mind??" and they said "oh cmon, what's a few bees??"

I just looked at them.

A FEW BEES??? There were BEES all over the place, landing on the table, on the relish, on the plates.

They just shooshed them away and they ate their food.

I looked at them like they were out of their mind.

To me, THEY WERE!!!

I took my food, ran up to my room, put on the tv, and ate in the cool, air condition...looked out the window and watched all of them swatting bees while they ate and drank. MAYBE IT WAS THE LIQUOR???? lol

Later on, (when the bees went away), I rejoined them and it was about 6 pm.

They had drinks on the table. I do not drink. Never have. This was my first experience with "drinking anything".

They were making daquiries. Frozen Daquiries. I will never forget this as long as I live.

I had never tasted them. I said "give me one".. Someone said "be careful". I said "of what??" these little things?"

So someone poured me a frozen daquiri. It tasted like lemonade. I said "this is liquor??" No one was watching me, so I picked up 5 of these little frozen things.

I was downing them and someone saw me and said: "melody, what are you drinking?" and I said "oh nothing, just these little sweet things". They said "how many did you have"? and I said 'I don't know, maybe 5" And they yelled "melody had 5 frozen daquiries". So I said (I'm perfectly sober by the way), I said: "what is the big deal, I'm perfectly fine".

I stood up...AND WAS FROZEN IN PLACE. I couldn't move. Someone had to bring me to my room, and put me to bed.

That was the only, the first, and the last time, I DRANK ANYTHING.

So that day was full of BEES!!! and frozen daquiries.

I miss the daquiries more than the bees!!!

lol

awwwww PINK lizards?! how cute <33

i had a snake once and it was wonderful he was so pretty and my friends boyfriend has an ADORABLE lizard that will drop its tail and grow a new one if you touch it haha

yayyy for reptiles!

LOL Wiix - Do you prefer your lizards "chilled" or "on the rocks?" :D

LOL Melody - that Tequila can really sneak up on you. At first I thought you were going to say you were drinking BEES! :eek::D

I used to be absolutely terrified of spiders. When I was little, I woke up one night because the moonlight had filled my room. I sat up to look out the window at the moon and noticed my window seemed particularly dirty. I woke up in the morning to find my room completely filled with baby spiders - all over my windows and carpeting my ceiling. :eek:

As Rosanne Rosannadanna would say, "I thought I was gonna die!" My dad bombed my room with Raid, and to this day I still can't stand that smell. He also cut down a lilac bush next to my window, thinking the spiders may have made their way in that way. After that incident, I nearly went into panic attacks whenever I'd see a spider.

I was able to get over my fear of spiders because I HAD TO considering the fact that I'm losing my eyesight.

I was at the home of a long-time friend and I told her about getting over my fear. She didn't believe me, so she invited me into her son's room - filled with pet snakes, lizards and tarantulas in tanks.

Her son took out a huge tarantula, placed it on my palm, and instructed me how to move my hands to allow her to walk on my hand without falling off. She didn't move though. She finally turned around, walked up my arm and sat on my shoulder - tapping my neck with one of her legs. My friend finally believed me. :p

I Love all animals and really can't think of any I am afraid of Unless it's an animal that has been abused and is viscious or one that has been trained to attack and kill.

I didn't like bats for a long time but I am over that now after I did some reseach about them.

The only time I had a problem with A spider was a long time ago. A spider was on the top of my big toe and it bit me. That toe was numb for about a year after that.

I think if you learn about the animals you fear you do become less fearful. Understanding their behaviours goes a long way in reducing your fear and helps you deal with the animal itself if the situation should ever arise again. Animals really don't want to hurt you unless they want to EAT you, THEN you should just run. If they are afraid they just want to defend themselves and act out. If you see one is afraid it's best to just remove YOURSELF from it's presence. You shouldn't feel you have to KILL something to get it away from you. I never use pesticides because of the effect it probably will have on me too unless it's something Natural. A little research on that topic will help you find out what they are. I think more of a repellant than a way to kill the animal.

God bless you and everybody who loves living things. More power to you.

Not gonna be me!!! lol

And the posings of the lizards, I have a question. Are these REAL lizards, or stuffed ones?

Thanks much.
Melody

Yes, they are real. They ARE Real Posers, aren't they? I have a little wicker chair I might try to pose mine in but it may not be the right shape to accomadate her body, she has some problems so I have to be gentle with her.

My sister was visiting me in California and she found a Gecko outside. She chased it to show me and grabbed it's tail and it popped off. She wanted to show me how "cool" this thing was. I was sitting in my car and she threw the tail on my dash and it danced! EW! BTW, do they eat Black Widows? We seem to have lots of BW by our door! I've bought spray to kill the Widows but my hubby says, "It's a moral issue...they aren't in the house, I can't kill it!" But I have a dog and he thinks EVERYTHING wants to play! I'm worried!

Waaaaaiiiittt a minute.

The tail DANCED on your dashboard?? After it was removed from the body of the gekko??

really???

I've seen that too. Yea, it does kind of freak you out. :eek:

Yes Melody, after it was disconnected from the body, it still danced! EEEEWWWW! She thought it was funny!

yep, that's what I *meant* when I said they were entertainment for my cat !!

:D

I've found her a few times playing with little green wriggling tails...

Q: Why does the tail of a lizard continue to wriggle for a few moments after it has been snapped from its body? Why doesn't the wriggling stop immediately?

A: Not all lizards lose their tails, but among those that do, a lost tail that keeps wiggling apparently distracts the predator, giving the lizard a little extra time to slip away — perhaps even unnoticed. Some lizards, like the skink and the gecko, lose their tails easily and regrow new ones fast.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columni...-lizards_x.htm

Turkey Vultures!!!! Black Vultures!!! DH (the birdwatcher) mskes me recognice difference in flying between them and our red-shouldered hawk and as I was sitting on a toilet (as I am wont to do) one (Black) landed on roof outside window 9 foot away! Big.
A bunch roosted in my neighbor's tree, he got mad, they covered his deck with, you know, droppings (he called it something else and he was MAD). They used to sit in a bunch on my roof and drive my dog crazy. He'd bark and seems like all they did was stare at him. They do eat what passes away in woods.

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THEN you should just run. If they are afraid they just want to defend themselves and act out.
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Be careful who you run from. Not BEARS!!!!! They'll run after you and catch you!!!..Lie flat, pretend you're dead. They may maul you, hopefully though won't kill you. DS opened his car window when an "adorable" half grown bear waddelded over at a park. I screamed at him to close it. At a county fair circus (Our friend was ring-master), backstage I was drawn to pet those wonderful perfvorming "trained" caged bears. My friend caught my hand and screamed at me "NEVER touch the bears!!" Elephants are unpredictable, big, and can be mean. But lizards!! (except Komoto Dragons)

I have never met a bear and have no plans to. I hate zoos because animals are caged and should be allowed to roam free. It's like they are being punished put in cages like that. Makes me physically ill to look at them. I just want to free all of them. I guess "Some" zoos are trying to make the environment more "Natural" and I guess that's better BUT, NAAAAAA, still don't like zoos.:mad: Zoos are for People not animals. :mad:

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THEN you should just run. If they are afraid they just want to defend themselves and act out.
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Be careful who you run from. Not BEARS!!!!! They'll run after you and catch you!!!..Lie flat, pretend you're dead. They may maul you, hopefully though won't kill you. DS opened his car window when an "adorable" half grown bear waddelded over at a park. I screamed at him to close it. At a county fair circus (Our friend was ring-master), backstage I was drawn to pet those wonderful perfvorming "trained" caged bears. My friend caught my hand and screamed at me "NEVER touch the bears!!" Elephants are unpredictable, big, and can be mean. But lizards!! (except Komoto Dragons)[/QUOTE]

Nice side action from preditiors but I do believe it's just the residual electrical impulses in the nerves that make it still move. It burns itself out shortly.

Here's my pretty little girl. Had to recharge my batteries so I could get a pic of her for you all. She is all fed, watered and entertained and ready to go to sleep for the night. ;)

that's true, except for The Belize Zoo, run by an American expat, Sharon Matola...

the animals there are all native to Belize, and they're all "rescue and rehab" cases, or confiscated (illegal) pets...

The Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center was started in 1983, as a last ditch effort to provide a home for a collection of wild animals which had been used in making documentary films about tropical forests.

http://www.belizezoo.org/zoo/zoo.html

see, once the animals had gotten "tamed" and used to being fed by people, they could no longer SURVIVE in the wild, they would just die.

so, the person who was helping "wrangle" the animals for the film got some land, and stuck a hand-painted sign at the end of the driveway, and VOILA! the Belize Zoo was born!

and it's a totally cool place, with an education center, and a lodge, and excellent care is taken of the residents.

hope that helps Wiix, wanted you to know all zoos aren't created equal...