Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Posted

They are worth a lot of money as Chinese medicine, about a thousand baht for a half kilo one or around a foot long, bigger ones goes up to 5000 baht, some claim 15-16 inch ones are paid around 10-20,000 baht, but I don't think those exist and it is just a ploy for the buyer to drum up their business, saying they pay up to50,000 for a tookkae

 

so, say it is your pet, anyone try to catch them is going to be sued for theft, but then you have to find a way to keep them on your side of the fence 

 

unfortunately they are also Thai boogeyman, parents like to scare their child into doing something will say that the tookae will get them unless they wash the dishes etc.

Posted
2 hours ago, brokenbone said:

i could only find the answer when i searched tookay + animal,

he spelt it wrong, its only one o, tokay

Tik tok or took.  Tik tok is the clock sound.  But that is not how tookay is pronounced.  It is took ay. 

 

 

Posted
1 hour ago, digbeth said:

 

unfortunately they are also Thai boogeyman, parents like to scare their child into doing something will say that the tookae will get them unless they wash the dishes etc.

if i ever again bother with a thai woman,

i'll keep this advise

  • Like 1
  • Haha 1
Posted
44 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

My big one is about 18 inches long.  Big girl.  The females are quiet.  The males make all of the noise.  The dog has a scorpion bark, poisonous snake bark, green flying snake bark, tookay bark.  All different.  The dog ignores big toads/bullfrogs.  So I don't know why she is freaked by tookays.  There was a Thai horror movie about them which apparently scared all of the kids.  They do poop a lot and it needs to be cleaned.  I had one trained to poop on a paper but my wife kept throwing away the paper and not replacing it.

took.jpg

Wellllll, that picture would convince ME to get a few!

 

Thanks for the video, too.  Strangely enough I never saw any (just had the little tan house geckos), but I recognize the sound, even though before now I didn't know what it was!  I wish I'd known when I still lived there; I would've gone trying to see one when I could hear them.

Posted
8 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

My big one is about 18 inches long.  Big girl.  The females are quiet.  The males make all of the noise.  The dog has a scorpion bark, poisonous snake bark, green flying snake bark, tookay bark.  All different.  The dog ignores big toads/bullfrogs.  So I don't know why she is freaked by tookays.  There was a Thai horror movie about them which apparently scared all of the kids.  They do poop a lot and it needs to be cleaned.  I had one trained to poop on a paper but my wife kept throwing away the paper and not replacing it.

took.jpg

 

that centipede would scare the pants offa me more than the tokay...

 

Tokay: an inexpensive fortified wine favored by skid road bums in metro areas of cities on the west coast of the USA...

 

 

Posted

If the lizard is on your neighbor's premises, it's not your lizard.  Some Thais view them as pests.....just as you probably view termites as pests and kill them when they're on your property.

 

  • Like 1
Posted

I know a guy who loves to stomp these innocent critters to death and when moi confronted this gentleman about such behavior his reply was:  "My wife doesn't like them" 

????. Very sad ???? 

Posted

Who cares about the spelling? If it's a Thai word there's probably a million different farang spellings.

 

 

Got some at my place - dogs don't care about them, but give them buffalo, cows or samlors and the dogs go crazy. I've taught them not to bark at lovely ladies on motorbikes though!

Posted
1 minute ago, Chassa said:

I've taught them not to bark at lovely ladies on motorbikes though!

I had the same problem with my wife when I taught her the doggy position

Posted

Personally I would just get rid of them...

  Are they really worth the hassle of being disliked by those around you...."Better to understand, than be understood".

Posted
23 hours ago, dick dasterdly said:

I like Tookays too, which is just as well as there are many around the house.  One comes into the house for a few days every now and again, and I'm always happy to see him.

 

I've even thought about leaving out some dog/cat food at night for him to eat ????!

I take it that you're not the one who does the house cleaning.

  • Like 1

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



×
×
  • Create New...