Help with an escaped Tokay

[Thoth]

Long story short my female tokay got out of the enclosure. It was my fault.
Anyway she is behind a book case (48" H x 36" W). Basically no matter which direction i go after her she runs the opposite (always staying on the shelf the whole time and out of reach.) It would be funny if it wasn't so frustrating.

Anything suggestions? Is it possible to set something out to lure her out? I'm almost wishing she'd bite me and clamp on so I could at least get her out.


Though I did find out out they can run backwards suprisingly fast.

 

[Snipes]

I suppose with those amazing pads they can run on fluon or vaseline huh? I know tarantulas can't but as for geckos i dunno

 

[Mandi]

tokays are territorial, she wont go far, my advice is to release a few crickets into the room and wait for her to come out from behind the shelf. Youll probably have more luck at or aleast with the lights out mine were mostly active at night.

 

[xelda]

I'm almost wishing she'd bite me and clamp on so I could at least get her out.

I saw my friend catch his tokay using that method. He was in a similar predicament where he could see the tokay but he couldn't reach it. It was just a matter of using a stick to coax the tokay in the right direction, and then CHOMP. :}

 

[Daisey_Boo222]

I've had a lot of my animals get loose. If you have to leave the room (or the house for that matter) you should stuff a towl under the door so that it can't get out of the room. Unless its in a hallway....then you'd have some stuffin' to do.... :}

 

[Kid Dragon]

Long story short my female tokay got out of the enclosure. It was my fault.
Anyway she is behind a book case (48" H x 36" W). Basically no matter which direction i go after her she runs the opposite (always staying on the shelf the whole time and out of reach.) It would be funny if it wasn't so frustrating.

Anything suggestions? Is it possible to set something out to lure her out? I'm almost wishing she'd bite me and clamp on so I could at least get her out.

Not the easiest lizard to capture. You can try a butterfly net.

If you wear leather gloves you can pin her under your hand...if you can catch her. You need to be careful of her tail. Good luck, she can end up inside your walls...you'll hear her at night.

 

[Wadew]

I had a tokay loose in my store for more than a year, he turned into a beast! we finally caught him and he sold right away, fat thing. We figured out where he sat all the time by finding a large amount of poop on top of racking! and kept checking that area.

 

[galeogirl]

I had one get loose once, it took a liking to the back of the fridge, so we had to pull the fridge away from the wall while it was hiding back there and fish it out.

 

[Thoth]

I decided to try the butterfly net because she was always just out of reach. So I get home with the net. She decides that she no longer likes the back of the bookshelf but the vent of the baseboard heater, where I can't grab her or use the net. I tried coaxing with a stick but she would always stop before she was in range to be caught. Its as if she's mocking me, showing me she might be smarter (which maybe the case).

Would baiting work in drawing her out into the open. Crickets, mealworms, zoophoba or f/t pinkie in a dish nearby work in drawing her out? Or a water dish?

 

[Kid Dragon]

Would baiting work in drawing her out into the open. Crickets, mealworms, zoophoba or f/t pinkie in a dish nearby work in drawing her out? Or a water dish?

It would work for my tokay. When she sees food on the forceps she moves from one side of her cage to the other. If your tokay is hungry, she'll come.

 

[Elmolax]

lol...
do tokay bites hurt? lol XD