Comments on: Don’t Hurt the Geckos

By: Mathew

Mathew — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:38:03 +0000

I know its really old but that is an Anole lizard, not a gecko

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:11:05 +0000

….and when you can’t catch them…..any ideas about how to remove their urine stains from clothing?

By: Sheila

Sheila — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:49:01 +0000

Kellie – yes they do make a chirping noise. Sounds like you’ve got yourself a gecko.

By: Kellie

Kellie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:45:28 +0000

I have a question…do geckos make any type of clicking or chirping type noise? I believe we have one in the condo, I did see him once. Usually early morning, every so often, I hear something from what I would swear is inside. Just curious…

By: Sheila

Sheila — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:33:54 +0000

Hi Baylee and thanks for stopping by to comment. Geckos are are almost too cute to hurt, don’t you think?

By: Baylee

Baylee — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:15:07 +0000

hi my name is Baylee and i visited Hawaii like 31 times and she’s right you don’t need to hurt them you need to be kind to them even though they might scare you don’t need to hurt them thanks

Baylee ^_^

By: Sheila

Sheila — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:48:31 +0000

I’d imagine a cat would have hours of fun batting around a gecko. How do you catch them? Just with your hands? They seem very quick. Or do you trap them?

By: HawaiiVacationGifts

HawaiiVacationGifts — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:49:06 +0000

We live in the middle of a Hawaiian rainforest and have many geckos outside. If we find one in the house, we catch it and put it outside on a tree without our cat watching. We have found him torturing geckos before.

By: Bobbie

Bobbie — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:02:02 +0000

We try to catch them and put them outside, too, but mainly because there’s a lot more for them to eat in the garden than inside the house. We just hate finding underfed, dead, dried up geckos under the beds! I do love to hear them chirping outside our window.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:06:06 +0000

Thanks for the link, Susan. I will check it out.

By: Susan Flemming

Susan Flemming — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:06:38 +0000

Yes, jt it is true that all reptiles can carry salmonella and I wouldn’t have wanted to have a house that was swarming with them. That’s why we caught them and put them outside. That’s probably why I never had a problem with stains.

By: jt

jt — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:34:33 +0000

if you love salmonella, then gecko’s are right up your alley. for those who don’t live here and so don’t really know the issues, their poop is full of it, quite literally. further, it stains everything you own. so methods of gecko removal, which i won’t mention herein, would be most appropriate. hmmm, advise from strangers.

By: Susan Flemming

Susan Flemming — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:45:44 +0000

Hello Sheila,

Actually, the essay is posted on my website. I wasn’t sure if you’d think it rude of me to post a link to my own site, so I didn’t. But since you asked… http://www.susanflemming.com/thewayout.htm

By: Sheila

Sheila — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:10:39 +0000

Hi Susan – Is your essay available online? I do think the little guys are cute, though that could be odd sharing a shower with one of them.

By: Susan Flemming

Susan Flemming — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:42:42 +0000

One of the first things people told us when we moved to Maui was that to have Geckos in your house was good luck. We always had a few and I grew to love the little guys, even if they did have a habit of “dropping in” while you were showering.

Once they got too big though, we’d catch them and put them outside. Now that was always a hilarious bit of fun. And one little gecko was even the inspiration for an essay I wrote called The Way Out. In fact… I think I’ll go do a blog post about it. Thanks Sheila. )