Cool...a pink gecko. :)

Be sure to give your gecko's kith and kin our card. We had a small family of them who had taken up residence at our old place just before we moved, but not a one to be seen at the new place. We need some new house geckos.

We're already making plans on how best to capture and transplant as many of 'em as possible to the new house when it's finished.

I know people who wrote clauses in their house sales contracts that allowed them to return and get their turtle population when they emerged from hibernation. Maybe that's what you should have done with your old place.

You know what they say: a house without geckos is a house with an expensive quarterly exterminator contract. Catchy, huh?

Great picture! I had to share it with my college daughter in Abilene. Her and her roomies' house has been, in their words, "overrun" with geckos. I think they counted three or four, which I suppose for four young women in a four-room house, constitutes an overrun. No doubt they would be less concerned about a mauve colored one.

Did the gecko try to sell you car insurance with a Brit accent?

Rob, I think a lot of people recoil at the thought of having reptiles living in their houses, but once they realize that those lizards can pretty much eliminate all insects (including spiders!), they start to warm to the idea.

Bleu, he didn't even offer me a warm buttered scone!

I have, I reckon, 3 or 4 Ghecki inside my house at any time. They seem to like to grow up inside and then move out. Also outside I have 6 or 7 turtles who love to come to the back door at dog feeding time, expecting to get dog chow too. And they do, they seem to love the red "kibbles" more than any other. Not many people, other than Burr Williams, seem to know that these box turtles will eat most anything...including dead birds. They are also great for keeping the 'water bug' population down.

Wallace, I think a lot of people are amazed to find that turtles exhibit intelligence (or at least the appearance thereof) and can recognize different humans.

hopefully mom gets to ur house before he dissapears so she can see him. ill be home next weekend for the airshow so can i keep him as a pet?

hopefully mom gets to ur house before he dissapears so she can see him. ill be home next weekend for the airshow so can i keep him as a pet?

Hey, I can see you! For some reason I can't access your blog at work--can't ping it or anything--and haven't been able to for months now. I miss it. :(

Don't show that photo to my mother-in-law. She'd go throgh the roof--scared to death of the things. I told my wife we would get a rubber lizard to put in her bed. That idea was vetoed. :)

I have a couple of these living by my back door. I don't ever remember seeing them before and I've been in my 70 year old house for 20 years. This one is always on the screen when I come in after dark. He's not eating nearly enough spiders. But he's only about 2 1/2 inches long.

Stephen, I'll bet this post got through your firewall because geckos can go anywhere they have a mind to. ;-)

Linda, I keep meaning to ask Burr Williams if he has a theory about the appearance of geckos over the past few years. I don't recall seeing any until three or four years ago. There were three on our back porch a couple of nights ago, so I know we've got a bunch of them around.