A Gecko Adventure

Noah's little friend.

Not long after Noah finished his homework today, he came running into the hall. "Mom, there's a gecko in my room!" he yelled.

We haven't had one in the house in a long time and I don't think we've ever had one in his room, so I had to check it out. Sure enough, there was the bugger under his bed, looking as if he had turned to stone. The poor thing.

In case you don't know much about geckos...they are fast. They can run across any surface faster than you can catch them. Noah tried to grab it, but it ran behind his chest of drawers. When he tried to chase him out with a long piece of cardboard, it ran underneath the chest of drawers.

He grabbed it by the tail, but it fell off - in two places! I guess they fall off in self defense so they can continue to run away. I'm not sure if the tail grows back, though. After numerous attempts of getting him from behind or under the chest of drawers, Noah finally got him out far enough to scoop him up in his hands. We put him in a plastic box and then I had Noah put him outside.

A couple of gecko tail pieces
(a little blurry)

No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on
you...the gecko is in a green plastic box.


Geckos are harmless except that they poop a lot. All you have to do to verify that is go outside on our lanai. Our window frames are completely covered in gecko poop. When we had some pest control people come to our house for the first time, I asked the guy what kind of poop it was. He said it was gecko poop. I told him it looked like mouse poop to me. He explained in great detail how you can tell it's gecko poop - it will have a little whitish bulb on one end. I can't imagine having a job that requires you to know the "ins" and "outs" (no pun intended) of poop.

An example of our gecko
problem outside - check out
the bottom one and you'll
see the white bulb.