Getting rid of Tookgay

[smerty]

Anybody know what type of bait would be best to use to catch Tookgays in those glue mousetraps?

[Trillian]

Delete, now presume you mean tokay geko rather than just geko?

Edited May 28, 2020 by Trillian

[lannarebirth]

Why would you want to?

[OneeyedJohn]

Cleaning up their poo is just part of the early morning ritual.

 

Aside from that they are good.

 

Jingjoks are another matter.

[smerty]

Yes I'm talking about the big Tokay's, not jingjoks or geckos.  Several have invaded my room, and I cannot get rid of them. They hide behind furniture and everwhere.  I want to bait some of those big glue mousetraps, and try to catch them.

[Trillian]

15 minutes ago, smerty said:

Yes I'm talking about the big Tokay's, not jingjoks or geckos.  Several have invaded my room, and I cannot get rid of them. They hide behind furniture and everwhere.  I want to bait some of those big glue mousetraps, and try to catch them.

Please don't set traps for them, spend the money on a Burmese worker or similar and have them catch and release them, they are mostly harmless and excellent at bug control.

[worgeordie]

1 hour ago, smerty said:

Yes I'm talking about the big Tokay's, not jingjoks or geckos.  Several have invaded my room, and I cannot get rid of them. They hide behind furniture and everwhere.  I want to bait some of those big glue mousetraps, and try to catch them.

I doubt several have invaded your room, as they are territorial,

plus there would not be enough food in your room to support them,

I have no problem catching rats in them,as they are vermin,cause

damage and disease, but Tokay's only do good,eating cockroaches,

and other insects.

regards Worgeordie

[Peter Denis]

1 hour ago, smerty said:

Yes I'm talking about the big Tokay's, not jingjoks or geckos.  Several have invaded my room, and I cannot get rid of them. They hide behind furniture and everwhere.  I want to bait some of those big glue mousetraps, and try to catch them.

Don't kill tokays, they are harmless and excellent for getting rid of other vermin like cockroaches and mosquitoes.  And it's easy to clean their droppings, I admit they can make a lot of noise considering their size.  But I actually like it when they let me know they are there with their repeated 'tokay' shout.

[nikmar]

i would love a tookay in my home. been getting a few cockroaches and the cat cant be bothered getting off her fat <deleted> to get them so a decent sized tookay would be just the ticket. Also, it would have the added bonus of p***ing the wife off. ????

[northsouthdevide]

As they are territorial creatures, why not try playing their call from YouTube on a loudspeaker? 

It works in Eastern Europe with wolves, so it will probably work with tokey's. 

 

Just make sure you don't play the mating call ????

[action]

We were able to lure one into a metal trap using a laser pointer.  Took it outside and released it, no harm done.  

[phetphet]

5 hours ago, Peter Denis said:

Don't kill tokays, they are harmless and excellent for getting rid of other vermin like cockroaches and mosquitoes.  And it's easy to clean their droppings, I admit they can make a lot of noise considering their size.  But I actually like it when they let me know they are there with their repeated 'tokay' shout.

I don't mind the tokays, but it p's me off when they shout in the early hours and wake me up. Bloody thing has got inside my suspended ceiling, and makes an almighty racket.

[Snackbar]

5 hours ago, nikmar said:

i would love a tookay in my home. been getting a few cockroaches and the cat cant be bothered getting off her fat <deleted> to get them so a decent sized tookay would be just the ticket. Also, it would have the added bonus of p***ing the wife off. ????

Moved into a jungle house that had a resident cat.  I stayed there for ten years, fed it occasionally whole fresh fish. It survived on snakes, rats and tokays and was happy as larry. Said goodbye to it when I moved out 6 years ago. 
 

Going on holiday was never an issue, it would come running as soon as I got back home. 
 

Stop feeding your cat and it will either get its act together or move out.

[Emdog]

I'll take the lizards any day of the week over bugs: the poo is easy to catch and doesn't reproduce.

And the poo is made up of.... dead bugs. Consider it confirmation that liz is earning it's keep

[bubba45]

34 minutes ago, phetphet said:

I don't mind the tokays, but it p's me off when they shout in the early hours and wake me up. Bloody thing has got inside my suspended ceiling, and makes an almighty racket.

Agree.  Here's the thing, you can have 100 of them around the house, they'll make a boatload of racket and you'll never sleep, and everyplace is STILL full of bugs.  So, I'll take the bugs and no noise from the lizards.  They can never get rid of any noticeable quantity of bugs.  Just a fact.

[Andrew Dwyer]

We have one somewhere just outside our bathroom , it calls out regularly when I am in the bathroom, mostly early morning or late evening, have seen him a couple of times scurrying along the top of the wall.

Someone posted on another thread about them calling out 4 or 5 times in succession, now I have to stop what I am doing to count his calls !!, but yes seems like it’s always 4 or 5 times never less , never more !!

I should really get a hobby !!

[DPKANKAN]

5 hours ago, northsouthdevide said:

As they are territorial creatures, why not try playing their call from YouTube on a loudspeaker? 

It works in Eastern Europe with wolves, so it will probably work with tokey's. 

 

Just make sure you don't play the mating call ????

For supposed territorial creatures, we had 3 last night, down on the porch floor chasing the big flying bugs!! The missus and her niece came screaming in shutting the outside light and double entrance doors and screen. They are scared sh.tl.ss of 'em!! ????????????????????????????????

[Bigz]

I've got a male, two females and a couple of babies living in my house right now. Some more on the way as I discovered some eggs glued to the wall behind the picture frame. They are lovely and would never want to get rid of them. Unfortunately my cat kills some occasionally. 

[superal]

2 hours ago, phetphet said:

I don't mind the tokays, but it p's me off when they shout in the early hours and wake me up. Bloody thing has got inside my suspended ceiling, and makes an almighty racket.

Same same me , on top of bedroom suspended ceiling , tokaying all night for a month , then saw him outside on the fascia board and hit a stick on the board just behind him and chased him off outside to the fields and shouted " dont fxxxxxg come back here again " rubbed my hands thinking good job done and poured a beer . He came back 2 days later , little xxxx

[Bob A Kneale]

10 hours ago, smerty said:

Yes I'm talking about the big Tokay's, not jingjoks or geckos.  Several have invaded my room, and I cannot get rid of them. They hide behind furniture and everwhere.  I want to bait some of those big glue mousetraps, and try to catch them.

"I want to bait some of those big glue mousetraps, and try to catch them".

Then, with it glued to the trap, what are you going to do? 

[Bob A Kneale]

12 hours ago, smerty said:

Anybody know what type of bait would be best to use to catch Tookgays in those glue mousetraps?

Ants, cockroaches, small jingjoks.

 

But, seriously, they are a protected species in Thailand.

Edited May 29, 2020 by Bob A Kneale

[oobar]

A guy told me if you want to catch and remove jingjokes without harming them, give them a blast from a CO2 fire extinguisher.  It makes them so cold they fall from the ceiling or wall.  You then pick them up, take them outside and they scamper away within seconds.  Maybe this would work with tookays as well.  Only thing is: the guy who told me this was drunk.

[Aussiepeter]

I love tokays, but here's a little known fact. The bigger they are, the more 'resounds' they can make from sucking in air. That is - a bit over an inch in length or so equals one "tokay" re-virb sound. When you get a big 'un, they can resound eight or nine times, or even more ! I loved it when we lived in LOS, but then being ex-military, anything loud in the bush appeals. I'd always count the echoes, even in Thai restaurants at night, just to get a picture of the size. They are very territorial. Missus P is scared of them, as she got bitten after playing with one as a kid. They don't seem to have any teeth tho' - just cartilage or gums. Harmless. Don't hurt it - it will eat its' worth of bugs. Interestingly, when we moved to Oz in 2013 after the air pollution in C Mai gave me throat cancer, I forked out 20K baht to a firm in Hang Dong to "gas" our shipping container full of methylene bromide, to the standard required by the Oz govt folks. TIT. Only weeks after arriving here, being cleared by customs etc and unpacking, we found dozens of jing jok eggs in the furniture. Many of them subsequently hatched and our 100 y.o. house in Nthn NSW is now home to as many jing-joks as we ever had in Saraphi. Sadly, no tookays though. No matter, we have a 4 metre king brown snake, living in our back paddock. He rules.

[KMartinHandyman]

2 hours ago, DPKANKAN said:

For supposed territorial creatures, we had 3 last night, down on the porch floor chasing the big flying bugs!! The missus and her niece came screaming in shutting the outside light and double entrance doors and screen. They are scared sh.tl.ss of 'em!! ????????????????????????????????

Little Thai children are taught bedtime stories if they’re not quiet and go to sleep the tokays are going to come and eat their hearts out of their chest. 

[pookett]

Stainless steel or glass bowl with a couple of roaches in it, near your tookay's known hangout.

Watch for action and it'll get in the bowl for feeding, cover the bowl.

Or use a brush to make it drop to the floor, cover with bowl or box and slide so.ething flat underneath carefully ( don't harm the beastie ).

Take it a good distance from your home and release it.

Last time we had one it ate all the geckos!

I like them but my wife and every Thai I know does not.

Don't try to handle them as they can give a nasty bite.

[yankyoakum]

really bad idea, leave them be... we called them F##k U lizards back in the day and they are good karma to have around..

 

[Trujillo]

They could only invade your room if it was not sealed from the outside, like a Quonset hut. 

 

Be aware that those glue traps are for killing; once trapped there is no rehabilitation. They're off to the big wall in the sky....

[Henricus]

12 hours ago, Peter Denis said:

their repeated 'tokay' shout

listen very good to them they shout <deleted> me 55555

[Dap]

15 hours ago, smerty said:

Yes I'm talking about the big Tokay's, not jingjoks or geckos.  Several have invaded my room, and I cannot get rid of them. They hide behind furniture and everwhere.  I want to bait some of those big glue mousetraps, and try to catch them.

THIS is definitely a conundrum as you have a problem with this critter that you are considering a glue pad to eliminate. One, what will you bait it with? Two, what will you do with the very live and active tokay when it is stuck and very much alive? Just curious, just asking.

 

[Yom]

16 hours ago, smerty said:

those glue mousetraps?

I think I can feel with you, but these glue traps are - in almost every case -

really disgusting.

Best for me seems to throw a towel etc. towards them, then the 'Gecko gecko' 

tumbles to earth(no problem), will be distracted and you or your partner should try to catch

this nice animal inside the fabric.

If you have a fast eye and a fast hand, just grab it...

Better wear gloves and long sleeves.

Then bring it back into nature, far away from your house.

Or wait till some TV-members will send you a PM to pick up your Tookgay soon.

Good luck. No joke.

Yom