StatikStepz
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...So i got home from work today, and went in to my gecko room to check and see if one of my females had laid her eggs yet, and i notice that one of the tubs was halfway slid out of the rack, and all torn up inside. I immediately knew to expect the worst, because i have 2 cats aswell... one inparticular is always the troublemaker.
This is what i see when i go into the room.. the tub halfway out with no gecko in sight (sorry for quality of the pic, taken with cell phone)...
So i looked everywhere in the room, hoping that just maybe it was able to get away and escape and hide somewhere... but no gecko. Looked everywhere. Finally, i went to go look in the bathroom on the other side of the hallway, and this is what i find on the floor with pieces of the gecko's tail everywhere (i picked up the parts of the tail that were on the ground before i snapped the pic, so those that are a little squeemish would not have to see it)...
After i found the tail, i was hoping there still mite be a chance maybe she was still alive, because maybe she was able to drop her tail and still get away, but i couldn't find her... finally, i gave up looking for the time being, and then i noticed the cat playing with something under the kitchen table. It was the gecko's torso. No legs and no head were on it. Just the body. Poor thing. I was so sad, and mad all at once. Anyway, it really sucks because i really did like her... she had such a nice personality, and was so pretty!
She will rest in peace, and now, so will my cat (not really, but believe me when i say that from now on, that door will be closed when i am not home!). I cannot blame the cat, because the cat did not know any better, and was only doing what a cat would have done when seeing a lizard... but i do kind of blame myself, because i should have known not to leave the door to that room open, esp. when i have a cat that just loves to get into trouble and get into things. Or i should have even put like a piece of tape or something on the tubs closer to the floor, from the tub itself to the side of the rack, just to hold the tub in place so it can not be slid out when i am not in the room.
RIP Aries (came from Bryan @ Jett Exotics)
3/31/09 - 3/14/10 (...almost a year old
)
This is what i see when i go into the room.. the tub halfway out with no gecko in sight (sorry for quality of the pic, taken with cell phone)...
So i looked everywhere in the room, hoping that just maybe it was able to get away and escape and hide somewhere... but no gecko. Looked everywhere. Finally, i went to go look in the bathroom on the other side of the hallway, and this is what i find on the floor with pieces of the gecko's tail everywhere (i picked up the parts of the tail that were on the ground before i snapped the pic, so those that are a little squeemish would not have to see it)...
After i found the tail, i was hoping there still mite be a chance maybe she was still alive, because maybe she was able to drop her tail and still get away, but i couldn't find her... finally, i gave up looking for the time being, and then i noticed the cat playing with something under the kitchen table. It was the gecko's torso. No legs and no head were on it. Just the body. Poor thing. I was so sad, and mad all at once. Anyway, it really sucks because i really did like her... she had such a nice personality, and was so pretty!
She will rest in peace, and now, so will my cat (not really, but believe me when i say that from now on, that door will be closed when i am not home!). I cannot blame the cat, because the cat did not know any better, and was only doing what a cat would have done when seeing a lizard... but i do kind of blame myself, because i should have known not to leave the door to that room open, esp. when i have a cat that just loves to get into trouble and get into things. Or i should have even put like a piece of tape or something on the tubs closer to the floor, from the tub itself to the side of the rack, just to hold the tub in place so it can not be slid out when i am not in the room.
RIP Aries (came from Bryan @ Jett Exotics)
3/31/09 - 3/14/10 (...almost a year old
)
