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Geckos as house companions?


They can't be considered pets. Nor pests - leastwise they eat those mosquitos that bite me, so although neither pets nor pests, they are on my side in all of life's imponderables. They must be eating something, else they would surely move out?

I thought I only had the one gecko, mostly living in the sitting area indoors, but recently I've discovered another one that seem to favour the kitchen, behind the coffemaker. I am particularly glad of his services in combatting the perpetual ant problem that occurs here in the subtropics.

Close up they are very sweet and tend to stay still and look back at you, eye to eye, before scuttling off to who knows where, I have no idea, but wherever they hide indoors they are very welcome.

andI got gecko's in my P/S - but would love to live where they are and not here (this country is now defunct)


GEORGE, you big overgrown stupid Gecko, I told you we should have taken the lift, look how far we've to climb now.

I love geckos, they were my favourite animal whilst in Malaysia. They love to share our homes, and the occasional tiny bit of poo is no inconvenience considering they at all the mozzies which like to eat me. Plus they are surprisingly fun to watch, and scientifically fascinating.

Not pets, not pests, cohabitees?

Nah, can't be a cohabitee and not a pest

ooh, someones had a bad experience!

Hey, I'm not even at uni and i can get pissed off with the people I've stayed with

Boarding at school is supposed to get you to interact better with people you have to stay with...it actually just improves your capability to avoid bad rooming combinations

Have you named your respective geckos?

It was only today that I realised had more than one. What do you think they should be named?

bob and kate. or nighthoover and Bob. Or elvis and costello

I met Elvis Costello once. He had played the support act to a gig we had put on in Bristol back in the day - with Ian Dury and the Blockheads. He came to stand by me as we watched Ian Dury play.

Even though this is decades ago now, I still think that was just so cool.

I love 'em since I encountered them in Crete.

(I also love ants that hoover up stuff on the kitchen floor..we disagreed on that one I remember ...but people can't agree on everything).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuYUmnny0pU

'she says there's ants in the carpet,
dirty little monsters,
eating all the morsels
picking up the rubbish...'

Might I suggest "Martin" and "Lewis"?

Here's why:
The Gecko from the Geico commercial is named Martin after The Martin Agency in Richmond, VA. [...] His name is clearly not Stanley as stated in a 2010 commercial in which he says, "My name is not Stanley . . . I'd hate to be Stanley."
Attribution = http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_name_of_the_Gecko_in_the_Geico_commercial#ixzz1c277MtIc

As for the "Lewis" part:
Jerry Lewis ... is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis. In addition to the duo's popular nightclub work, they starred in a successful series of comedy films for Paramount Pictures.
Attribution = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lewis

Do Improbable Wok

I knew a guy who kept a gecko in a cage, and I always thought it was the most boring pet ever. But a real, wild gecko is a different matter.

I know that geckos use a unique law of physics to stick to the wall, using Van der Waal forces. That sounds like cod-Dutch for "of the wall", but it is genuine (although I may have got the spelling wrong).

Shouldn't your geckos be called Michael and Douglas?

You should call them Elvis and Presley...

...but only if he's singing "In the Gecko".

Call them Flanders and Swann, then you can have them play all of sorts of funny music

If you have a gecko called Swann, would you have to have a swan called Gekko for balance? Or would you have to start cooking madeleines?

Ref Gnomon's post #13, see my Entry on 'Gexko Tape' A6378230

n.b. If you're writing an Entry about Gecko's, Ford-prefect has already written one about 'Care of Geckos' at A3694935.

Why is everyone assuming those geckos are both male?

Actually, "Gecko" is one of my nicknames because it sounds a lot like my initials when pronounced.

Yarreau - this is one of my kind of worries. That the new one behind the coffee maker is much smaller than the other one. Do you think they are breeding?

(I have an indoor garden, with trees under and around the stairwell) I could never hope to catch them and put them outside, plus the doors and windows are usually open when I am at home.

Do geckos lay eggs? They must do, but where? I have no idea really of their lifestyle. I think they like it inside my house because we have too many feral cats running about out there who predate on these cute reptiles.