GeckoGathering
GrizLaru
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********************"LOST in MY SPACE"
Your gecko escaped. It's not the first to want to explore.
********************REMEMBER:
You do not have to find a lost gecko, simply find it's hiding place.
Yes it's most likely alive and probably wishing it were back
in its comfy habitat eating the bugs you've been spending your bucks on.......................................
I've found three that got out from my secure gecko villas
and know by now it doesn't take long if you leave the key
in the door or supply a natural ladder that you spent hours for them to climb on.......
So after finding my 3 and assisting 9 others to find theirs
and posting a number of hints to other missing gecko ads........
I figured I would do a thread on what I have found out............
and this will be the last one.
Sitting at the computer is a pain in the (back).
So here is:
******************" FINDING AN ESCAPED GECKO 101"
First Some Places:
Closet, shake em out of shoes.(1 was found this way, toe of shoe)
Bath, Check the shower curtain.
(one of mine was in the folds)
Loose rug or throw rug.
Your bed coverings......they jump up and climb the spreads
blankets, etc.......might even be under your pillow.
Gotta take it apart blanket by , can't just glance at it.
(1 was found here)
Wanna go to heat source and wanna go to water. Check
heat from a fridge.(one of mine was there).. probably have to roll it to see underneath. SO BE CAREFUL don't run it over or you have wasted your time finding it.
Gas Water heater area.....
Laundry room. dryer area.
......................by now you should have looked under every
piece of furniture in your bedroom (especially if it was housed there)......or even not........now do every piece in the house..........He/she is searching for a safe, warm, humid place.
Like the one you have been providing.......
BUT just a little safer....Humor.....
When you search a floor area really well, as your closet..and shaking it out of the toe end of shoes, etc........if you can, set all those things up someplace so you know it hasn't reentered after your search............because it may be on the move for a better place.
When a (closet) floor area has been searched well.............
Get empty shoe boxes or something similar, make a humid hide from them. Cut a hole in each end and one in the front, moist paper towels put in it and set it against a wall so it has a chance to enter from 3 directions...............
................check them often!!!
If the floor is empty it makes it easier but if not do it anyway.........sure meal worms can be added...Put a slice of carrot in with the worms so they will be healthy.
REMEMBER: check often.
Your gecko can go a pretty good while without food or water........
Its first searching will be for a protective spot,
heat/cool (so it can be changing spots to find the temp. needed),
water, food as it gets an opportunity or begins to feel safer with the surroundings............
and if you held it a lot......
maybe even boredom from not seeing you........
My cat found one of mine.....Ozzie sat looking at it on the
floor until I got up to see what he was looking at. No Harm.
The Cat can be rented for:
($20 per day, airfare/lodging. + bonus when found)
.......good luck, and:
May the *****"Finding of the Gecko Force be with You"...
Take care...HJ
