Bloody Tookay

So I take it a Tookay is a gecko, or lizard of some sort. I have lived in the tropics for 13 years and animals like this are not only par for the course, but useful. Before we had a cat we had no cockroaches (OK spraying does help), because the geckos ate them. Now the cat's food attracts them and the cat chases or eats the geckos.

I say leave them alone, they are part of nature and do a job.

I say they're a nuisance that live in MY house keeping me awake at night.
I have 100 trees outside that they're welcome to live in. I will never bother them there.
I will kill everyone I catch, swiftly and brutally ... and I'm on to the detached-tail defense.

Unfortunately they don't know that and they have the IQ of a Pattaya bar owner, so I sat nature wins.

Darwinism at work in the Texpat house.
Those that stick to the trees outside have a much better chance at surviving and carrying on their genetic line. After a few generations, they'll find my house a rather unpleasant place to set up camp.

Hi

We got a monster in the house also, maybe 28-30 cm long, biggest I have ever seen. The grand daddy of all the others I suspect. He's OK but every morning in the same spot he snaps off a 4cm log sometimes x 2 for us to clean up. Little bit over that at the moment. Need to develop and market a Tookay pooper scooper.

On the plus side he must eat a hell of a lot of annoying insects.

Kevro

Forgot to mention it always dumps in the same spot so at night now (In the dark) I automatically sidestep it. Bit like the buffalos that drop there exploding speed humps outside our driveway everyday within metres of its effort the day before.

Same buffalos, same spot.

Same tookay, same spot

Kevro

Some day, someone will sell gecko poop as a medicine, pure chitin, perhaps a new arthritis cure. You heard it here first.

Kevro wrote:Forgot to mention it always dumps in the same spot so at night now (In the dark) I automatically sidestep it. Bit like the buffalos that drop there exploding speed humps outside our driveway everyday within metres of its effort the day before.

Same buffalos, same spot.

Same tookay, same spot

Kevro

Kevro, put a piece of paper on the floor where he (the Tokay it is) drops his garbage and in the morning wrap the paper and put it in the garbage bin...
You could also supply him with a plastic bag to use, whether or not he uses it depends on the IQ of your Tokay...

Buffalo **** (kee kwai) is popular as a fertilizer, villagers usually collect it, perhaps you can bring it around...

Joe

SanukJoe wrote:

Kevro wrote:Forgot to mention it always dumps in the same spot so at night now (In the dark) I automatically sidestep it. Bit like the buffalos that drop there exploding speed humps outside our driveway everyday within metres of its effort the day before.

Same buffalos, same spot.

Same tookay, same spot

Kevro

Kevro, put a piece of paper on the floor where he (the Tokay it is) drops his garbage and in the morning wrap the paper and put it in the garbage bin...
You could also supply him with a plastic bag to use, whether or not he uses it depends on the IQ of your Tokay...

Buffalo **** (kee kwai) is popular as a fertilizer, villagers usually collect it, perhaps you can bring it around...

Joe

Hi SanukJoe,

Funny, the missus tried that and he bombed all around it. Usually one of my brother in laws will wander out and stand in it and then spread it around the house. I learnt in quick time the area to walk around yet they wade through it after a life time. Very frustrating.

I know the people with the buffalo and was very amused when I went to there corner shop for a beer to find a steaming heap in front of there shop and yes it was there own buffalo. We had a knowing look and a big chuckle. Unfortunately he was back on target the next day.

Kevro

A local man came around the other day as he had been told that we have a few Tookays about,
we caught one and the local caught another,via the slipknot on bamboo method. He told my partner that
you can sell Tookays to the Malaysians for THB 10000 for a half kilo tookay,it's supposed to be good for the body.
So their you are,get rid of the Tookays and get filthy rich as well,problem sorted,and the best of luck.

It's supposed to be for an aphrodesiac or erectile disfunction and it's for a Japanese pharmaceutical company is what I heard on Thai news. Shame because before you know it they will be an extinct species in Thailand as everyone tries to make a few quid. I guess if you've got one in your house, never have to buy viagra, just catch it and give it a bloody good lick - should get the old fellah performing for you

Eazy-Going wrote:I guess if you've got one in your house, never have to buy viagra, just catch it and give it a bloody good lick

OT will give it a try and report back. I hope you're not fibbing Eazy-Going.

OT..............

Would I fib??? I think you have to find a well fit one though, (WFT), and I'm not sure where you'll have to lick it...maybe propoganda spread by female tookays

As for using one as a fluffer....ouch man!!!! I've heard once they bite they don't let go But if that's what you like...up to you!