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Your Gecko Escaped, Huh?
********************FINDING MISSING GECKOS 101
***gecko escaped.
It's not the first to want to explore. BUT :
To avoid the situation totally, remember that secure housing is a must.........
***to keep positive about finding him/her ...think this.
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..........and if you held it a lot it may be even
bored from not seeing you.
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 to their condo in the door lock.......
Supplied a natural ladder that you spent hours
of time on for them to climb .......
Or didn't know you had a "carpenter morph" and
left tools and a couple two by fours in the tank..........
**So after finding my escaped 3 and assisting 10 others
to find theirs and posting a number of hints to other
missing gecko escapee parents........
I figured I would do a thread on what I have found out.....
.......and this will be the last one.
So Info now can be obtained from searching.
So here it is with some good add ons from other "find-ees"
**********" FINDING AN ESCAPED GECKO 101"
*******First Some Places:
It's looking for: #1 SECURITY,
warmth or cool much depends on the
surrounding temperatures of the floor.
Moisture in bath or shower areas,
food as it feel safer, but it can go quite a while without it.
Examples: (of where it was housed when lost)
**warm house, carpet floor....may move about seeking warm spots.
**cooler conditions, perhaps vinyl floor covering, slab/concrete....
.may be satisfied to hide in a somewhat hibernation
safe spot tightly tucked away.
**********Look Here
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.(lift it up)
Your bed coverings......they jump up and climb the
spreads, blankets, etc....might even be under your pillow.
Gotta take it apart piece by piece, can't just glance at it.
(2 were found here)
Wanna go to heat source and wanna go to water.
Check heat coming from a fridge floor area. (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 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, if you want.
Put a slice of carrot in with the worms so they will remain 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............
**Remember it escaped from you, You are responsible for its safety,
You are responsible to find it..........So:
you should look everywhere if you have an escape,
even in the least likely of places, because it just might be there.
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
and Min. Fee applies to non Geckoforums.Net members
and searches outside the USA.)
.......good luck, and:
May the ***
" Finding of the Gecko Force be with You "
Take care...HJ
********************FINDING MISSING GECKOS 101
***gecko escaped.
It's not the first to want to explore. BUT :
To avoid the situation totally, remember that secure housing is a must.........
***to keep positive about finding him/her ...think this.
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..........and if you held it a lot it may be even
bored from not seeing you.
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 to their condo in the door lock.......
Supplied a natural ladder that you spent hours
of time on for them to climb .......
Or didn't know you had a "carpenter morph" and
left tools and a couple two by fours in the tank..........
**So after finding my escaped 3 and assisting 10 others
to find theirs and posting a number of hints to other
missing gecko escapee parents........
I figured I would do a thread on what I have found out.....
.......and this will be the last one.
So Info now can be obtained from searching.
So here it is with some good add ons from other "find-ees"
**********" FINDING AN ESCAPED GECKO 101"
*******First Some Places:
It's looking for: #1 SECURITY,
warmth or cool much depends on the
surrounding temperatures of the floor.
Moisture in bath or shower areas,
food as it feel safer, but it can go quite a while without it.
Examples: (of where it was housed when lost)
**warm house, carpet floor....may move about seeking warm spots.
**cooler conditions, perhaps vinyl floor covering, slab/concrete....
.may be satisfied to hide in a somewhat hibernation
safe spot tightly tucked away.
**********Look Here
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.(lift it up)
Your bed coverings......they jump up and climb the
spreads, blankets, etc....might even be under your pillow.
Gotta take it apart piece by piece, can't just glance at it.
(2 were found here)
Wanna go to heat source and wanna go to water.
Check heat coming from a fridge floor area. (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 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, if you want.
Put a slice of carrot in with the worms so they will remain 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............
**Remember it escaped from you, You are responsible for its safety,
You are responsible to find it..........So:
you should look everywhere if you have an escape,
even in the least likely of places, because it just might be there.
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
and Min. Fee applies to non Geckoforums.Net members
and searches outside the USA.)
.......good luck, and:
May the ***
" Finding of the Gecko Force be with You "
Take care...HJ
