My Houseguest!

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

I have a pet(sorta)! Y'see, I live in sunny Florida, and bugs n' lizards and whatnot are pretty common here. What's not so common is this lil' gecko who's decided to make my home his home. He's almost as cute as the Gieco Car Insurance lizard(minus the tiny car--I'm working on that). He looks alot like the critter pictured below, but alot smaller and sorta malnourished-looking. I think he wandered in by accident.
During the wee hours last night, he came out and was running around, checking the place out. He seemed to have no fear of me, and even wandered up to me a coupla times(at one point, just hanging out on top of my foot for awhile). He's cute as the dickens, and he seems to actually follow me around the place!!!
Still, he looks kinda hungry, and I worry that I'll step on him or something. So, I tried opening the door last night so that he could go back outside to his lil' lizard friends and family, but right about then, the landlord's cat came up the stairs, and he is a reknowned lizard-killer. The gecko seemed to sense this, and just as he was about to head outside, he changed his mind and stayed in.

So, it looks like we're stuck with each other for now. Apart from the occassional gnat or spider(or flea from the cat), I'm afraid he won't have enough to eat, though. Any ideas on what I can feed him/her/it?

Also, taking name suggestions!

 

[TklDuo-Ann]

I'll point this out to Drew when he gets in. He used to do the whole snakes and lizards thing. In the meantime, most pet stores sell bugs for the little guys to munch on. I'd start there if you want to keep him around. Might consider getting an aquarium for it too.

Ann

 

[featherfingers]

You may want to find out exactly what kind of Gecko you've got there... I'm no expert... I just wanted to help. Here is a pretty good website that talks about the care and feeding of all kinds of geckos and lizards:

http://www.klsnet.com/lcare.html

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Looks like you've got a nice new friend, Bill. Take good care of him...

 

[steph]

What a cutie! 😛
(you can always name him Geico...)

XOXO

 

[The Sean Man]

Hey Doc!

Does this make you the "Lizard King"?


The Sean Man

 

[tickleshotel]

DR Bill Kobb...my name suggestion would be "samson" for a male gieco ..if it were a Lady gieco ,I'd go with the name " Ruby"
But name him,her with any names you receive here that might suit the Gieco better 🙂

 

[featherfingers]

As for a name, how about Tim?

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Thanks, everybody!

Well, pooh. I haven't seen Samson(I love the irony for such a scrawny lil' fella, but Tim's a close second)all night. Just like a reptile. 🙁
Hope he's alright. Thanks for the advice, all! That's a very good question on just which exact kind of lizard Samsom is, Featherfingers. The type is very common down here(just not ones that'll hang-out, staring hungerly at you while you post goofy stuff on message boards). People typically call them chameleons, but they don't look quite like the chameleons or the geckos one see's if one pops the name into a search engine. I found one pic on Google that was almost exactly like Samson, and it was called a "blue chameleon", but when I went to investigate that name further, I couldn't find the type.

Oh, well. Hopefully, he made it back outside to his happy tree friends and is even now regaling the tree-frogs and crickets with tales of his encounter with the big, dumb human-thing. 🙂

 

[vampirecult]

Name the lizard Hercules Hercules 😉

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

HE'S BACK!!!

I had no sooner posted the last message than, Ta-Da! Samson made an appearance! Gawd, he's staring at me again like I'm some kind of tasty morsel. I hope he comes and hangs-out by the moniter(hee hee, Get it? Lizard? Moniter? Oh, never mind...🙁 ) again like last night while I write-up a paper for class this morning. Lil' booger is too cute for words! He's clinging to the speaker with the bendy-lizard toy on top!(*gush* 😱 *swoon*)

 

[vampirecult]

I bet the lizard sure is tastey.

*sharpens up my butcher knife* 😛

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

I fear he's thinking the same thing about me! 😱

 

[vampirecult]

Cannibal!

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

I'll definately be keeping an eye his weight gain!

 

[tickledorange]

"Peter, we got him in a box of Frankenberry"

 

[tickleshotel]

Re: Thanks, everybody!

Well, pooh. I haven't seen Samson(I love the irony for such a scrawny lil' fella, but Tim's a close second)all night. Just like a reptile. 🙁
Hope he's alright. Thanks for the advice, all! That's a very good question on just which exact kind of lizard Samsom is, Featherfingers. The type is very common down here(just not ones that'll hang-out, staring hungerly at you while you post goofy stuff on message boards). People typically call them chameleons, but they don't look quite like the chameleons or the geckos one see's if one pops the name into a search engine. I found one pic on Google that was almost exactly like Samson, and it was called a "blue chameleon", but when I went to investigate that name further, I couldn't find the type.

Oh, well. Hopefully, he made it back outside to his happy tree friends and is even now regaling the tree-frogs and crickets with tales of his encounter with the big, dumb human-thing. 🙂

AWWW..he hasn;t been seen all night? He was sooo cute,I hope he is OK...

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Well, I haven't seen him since I've been back up, but he was playing around in one of my work shoes before I crashed today. Maybe he/she has a shoe/foot-thing?
I'll have to be really careful from now on when I throw on a pair of shoes! 😱

 

[tickleshotel]

Well, I haven't seen him since I've been back up, but he was playing around in one of my work shoes before I crashed today. Maybe he/she has a shoe/foot-thing?
I'll have to be really careful from now on when I throw on a pair of shoes! 😱

hehehe too funny DR. Bill Kobb..I always said be careful what you wish for

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

I'll have none of that interspecies tickling in my house!

Unless it's with this thing! 🙂

 

[tickleshotel]

woah!! I 'd like to know where you dug that up 🙂

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

No Way!

She's MINE! 😉

 

[tickleshotel]

She made me look at her for a full 3 minutes taking in everything about her..Gotta say she looks hot! Love those shoes😛 😀

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

They're created by a Japanese artist. I used to have the direct link to his website, but now I just have a link to a page with afew. They are equal parts beautiful/bizarre, yes?

 

[tickleshotel]

Wow, Yes your right they are beautiful,bizarre in my opinion...quite fascinating to the eyes ..😀