# Geckos **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633 "2013-04-13T21:17:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Molotok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/1 "2013-04-13T21:17:45Z")
I used to like geckos. Thought they were cute. Now they are constantly shitting on my bed and kitchen table. And on me. It’s like they aim for specific targets. Dirty little bastards :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/2 "2013-04-13T21:21:23Z")
[Geico Gecko voice]: “Nice bed you’ve got there. Shame if something happened to it.” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/3 "2013-04-13T21:23:53Z")
Ew. Seriously? Gross. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/4 "2013-04-13T21:44:50Z")
Do geckos actually have a “gecko” call? Do they squeak “gecko?” This was a schtick in an old “Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy” episode (old time radio.) Jack and Billy are in Manila, snooping around, and if anyone comes, Betty is supposed to imitate a gecko call. They hear, “Gecko! Gecko!” and think it’s her, but it’s a real gecko… Realistic? Hokey beyond all hoke? Somewhere maybe in between? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/5 "2013-04-13T22:29:43Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Do geckos actually have a “gecko” call? Do they squeak “gecko?” There are hundreds of species of geckos, and of course the different types make different sounds–mostly squeaks. But some larger species do croak out something that sounds vaguely like “gecko.” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/6 "2013-04-13T22:38:15Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Do geckos actually have a “gecko” call? Do they squeak “gecko?” [Tokay Geckos do.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0px6YFUegE) ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/7 "2013-04-13T23:26:54Z")
Back when I lived in Hawaii, I was having some fun in the bathtub and a gecko got into the fan and splattered itself over my body. It took years before I had private time in the bathtub after that. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/8 "2013-04-14T01:22:39Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > [Tokay Geckos do.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0px6YFUegE) Thank you! That’s cuter than anything! It sounds only a little like Betty in the Jack Armstrong episode, but I can definitely hear the word “geck-o” in it! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/9 "2013-04-14T01:30:27Z")
I have geckos in my house. I really like having them. But they’re a pretty small species. I don’t find gecko crap very often, and it’s a lot better than having roaches. ---
**Author:** ![Molotok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/10 "2013-04-14T02:20:07Z")
My geckos make a clicking sound. I like the sound, I like that they eat all the mosquitoes, roaches etc. But I might have to make some diapers for them -\_- ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/11 "2013-04-14T02:56:52Z")
l think they’re cute, too and didn’t have a problem with the couple of them that would come in at night during my vacation. Until one night as I lay in bed and watched one creep across the ceiling he came unstuck and fell to the floor. I didn’t know they could fall on my face while I was asleep! Not permitted. So that led to a nightly chase with a spatula. I chase them out, lie down, they come back in. And so forth. And now you tell me that on top of that they poop? Yikes. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/12 "2013-04-14T03:01:27Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Back when I lived in Hawaii, I was having some fun in the bathtub and a gecko got into the fan and splattered itself over my body. It took years before I had private time in the bathtub after that. Not to be too intrusive but are you male or female? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/13 "2013-04-14T03:18:12Z")
Get a cat to control the geckos, or at least entertainingly chase them. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/14 "2013-04-14T04:06:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Get a cat to control the geckos, or at least entertainingly chase them. Yes, and leave lovely carcasses and petrified or putrified gecko bits around. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/15 "2013-04-14T04:16:11Z")
Hey, if there’s gonna be biological leftovers anyway, may as well involve a playful cat. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/16 "2013-04-14T04:26:33Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Hey, if there’s gonna be biological leftovers anyway, may as well involve a playful cat. In a dim hallway of my house, early one morning, I got up and was lurching stiff-kneed to the bathroom. There, along my way, was a kitty hairball, with the little stringy thing that usually hangs off the end of them. So I get a paper towel, the better to pick it up with, and as I do I make a discovery. It’s not a hairball, _it’s the back half of a mouse_! That “little stringy thing” is the tail, along with back feet and about a third of the torso. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/17 "2013-04-14T04:43:10Z")
My sister’s cat likes to kill gophers (which is just fine with us! Gardeners do not like gophers!) But I was astonished, once, to find a gopher’s facial bones, dissected from the rest of the skull, with almost surgical precision. I didn’t know cats were so delicate and skillful! It was an impromptu anatomy lesson. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/18 "2013-04-14T08:26:15Z")
It’s [so hard to find medicine for them too](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16187777). ☹ ☹ ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/19 "2013-04-14T12:14:51Z")
Too bad they’re messy, because they’re cute. I should apply this principle every time I think “Oh, I’d love to have a pet \_\_\_\_\_ . They’re SO adorable!” Maybe red pandas and fennec foxes would smell funny and pee all over the place. > [@Trinopus](#): > > …This was a schtick in an old “Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy” episode (old time radio.) Jack and Billy are in Manila, snooping around, and if anyone comes, Betty is supposed to imitate a gecko call. They hear, “Gecko! Gecko!” and think it’s her, but it’s a real gecko. **“No time for that now, Billy. We’ve got to find Betty!”** \*-- every other Jack Armstrong episode ever \* (hmmm, I’d propose an old time radio drinking game, but we’d all die of alcohol poisoning) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633/20 "2013-04-14T20:07:59Z")
Moved to MPSIMS. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geckos/655633.md?page=2)