[Motors Mommy]

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?????

[Koala77]

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.

[MelodyL]

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

[Carolina]

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?

[weegot5kiz]

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?

[CayoKay]

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...

[who moi]

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....

[lor]

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.

[MelodyL]

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

[lor]

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.