I just saw this morning that I had a gecko freshly-caught in a sticky roach trap in my room.
Well little guy, that was not the best place to be looking for food.
I couldn’t very well let him die, so I called my friend in to help me. I cut around him carefully with some scissors, and started alternating olive oil and warm water on and around him with breaks in-between to let him catch his breath. Cold water would probably have slowed his metabolism and he wouldn’t have struggled so much, while too hot would scorch the poor thing.
Standing for 15 minutes on your one good leg while trying to do olive oil therapy on a gecko is not easy, but with some struggling, Gelato the Gecko is now free and running wild. Now that will be a story for him to tell his friends later.
Aw, poor thing… They’re so cute when they’re little.
I saw another one on my screened window here, and he was eating bugs that were clinging to it. It was kinda cool to watch him walk right on up and grab it in his mouth and munch away.
Very cool. I own a desert gecko, who is way confident of his climbing abilities, which really aren’t as good as he thinks. And he’s not as hyper as the green geckos - but he is a cutie.
And if you stroke the sides of their mouths to make them open, you can put it by your ear so it clamps down and you have a nice earring. Used to do that when I was a kid.
I have one that lives in my garage, he’s getting huge, hopefully someday he’ll be big enough to tackle the palmetto bugs and the mice … but not big enough to eat the dog.
I know when I lived in Florida people kept them inside their homes to eat the Palmetto Bugs (AKA roaches) in their homes. I would always see them without tails, because the cats try to catch them but grab their tails which tend to break off.
