I was enjoying a warm lazy afternoon listening to and tidying my music collection when I popped downstairs for a bite to eat. Seeing the MIL walk purposely towards the indoor kitchen carrying a long pole with two-inch noose attached to the end I knew she was Gecko hunting. I sat watching her fish for the noisy lizard behind a cupboard while eating a bowl of cold curry and rice which was quite refreshing in the mid-afternoon heat.

She reappeared with a foot long Gecko hanging by the neck from the noose and gave it to me. With no clear direction I thought taking it to the end of the rice field at the back of the house was a good solution with intent to release it into the trees and undergrowth there. I know that they have a fast and firm bite so I picked up two sticks on the way thinking that if I lodged one in it's mouth while undoing the noose I would prevent an attack as I freed it.

Those things are fast: No sooner had I put it down and started to place the stick in it's mouth, it jumped up and bit my middle finger, I felt the serrated teeth rip the pad of the finger as I shook it off. Placing pressure on the cut I returned home for self-administered first aid. (The subject of another thread.)

One of the friendly village dogs had followed me out to the field and stayed there barking at the gecko, it still had the noose on but was otherwise free to escape. Not proud of the feeling, but seeing it still there when I returned with a short machete did please me a little and a swift blow separated it's head from the body for the ants to eat.

As I write I'm not sure if future geckos will be killed on sight or remain on the remove-alive list like most of the other wild creatures (Some are caught and killed, others removed or eaten depending on species.) that we get in and around the house.

You killed it for what?

and why do you have to tell this story here?

You should talk to a doctor about your hobbies.

I hope you suffer the same fate

\My husband catches toukay geckos and releases them on a regular basis and has not been bitten once. So, this toukay, living its life and doing no harm, dies and gets posted here because you are too slow to release a harmless non poisonous wild animal without getting bitten.

well done indeed.

MORON.

They eat a very large amount of other insects that can be a much bigger nuisance than the gecko. So if your place get over run with spiders, cockroaches, centipedes, beetles and crickets you may wish you had some around.

They eat a very large amount of other insects that can be a much bigger nuisance than the gecko. So if your place get over run with spiders, cockroaches, centipedes, beetles and crickets you may wish you had some around.

No No, He pulls the legs off cockroaches, centipedes, beetles and crickets and burns Ants with a magnifying glass

Think he used to get bullied at school and miss's it

Hence the post

you no good!!!

Closed.