My Beans! 2 Handsome Leopard Geckos

[xFujimoto]

In addition to arachnids, I have a handful of other pets living with me. A little over a year ago I bought my first leopard gecko, Zuru! She was a few weeks old when I got her. My second gecko is Kotetsu, I bought him in September and I think he's about nine months old.

Zuru absolutely loves her hammock (and climbing down from it in the most unconventional ways). She's quite mellow; If I put my hand next to her hammock, she'll often climb onto it like let's get outta here!!

Kotetsu is a tad skittish. He always squeaks when he yawns, and refuses to walk around things that are in his way. Why walk around when you can just climb over?

 

[grimmjowls]

Too cute. Take them away.

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

Nice. I think I'd worry about the chances of a toenail getting stuck in the mesh hammock and the gecko hanging from it, but aside from that the hammock looks like something she enjoys using. I'm just a follower of Murphy's Law and figure that anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

 

[grimmjowls]

Nice. I think I'd worry about the chances of a toenail getting stuck in the mesh hammock and the gecko hanging from it, but aside from that the hammock looks like something she enjoys using. I'm just a follower of Murphy's Law and figure that anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

I'm afraid if you went with that thinking, anything could go wrong and you'd have to keep an enclosure completely barren. Not very stimulating for the pet.

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

Pet? Do you think I'd actually put a pet in an enclosure? Who knows what could go wrong?

I do have a very nice collection of empty tanks, though. I can sit and watch them for hours.

Kidding aside, critters have a propensity for getting into bad situations. A few weeks ago, I noticed a divider curtain in the house moving and figured my dog was heading back to where I sit in front of the computer. So I called him and the curtain moved even more, but the dog did not approach. So I called him again. The curtain still flapped about but the dog would not come. Puzzled, I walked over to investigate. As it turned out, the hem of the curtain is sewn up with nylon thread. A bit of the thread had come loose, forming a small loop and the dog had somehow managed to get his snout through the small loop and could not get free. part of the loop was in his mouth, and over his snout. I tried to help to no avail until I went and got a pair of scissors to cut the loop.
He was lucky I was home, that nylon was not going to break, he'd likely had remained stuck, with the thread cutting onto the corners of his mouth until I discovered him.
Freak accidents abound when it comes to critters, if it is possible for them to get into trouble, they'll find their way into it. That's why I err on the side of caution when possible. What were the odds of that dog happening to get his snout through the only loose piece of thread in the entire drape, thread-the-needle style? (I checked for more, there were none.)
Your gecko will probably be fine and nothing like I described will happen, I just mentioned that *I* would worry over it.

 

[grimmjowls]

Pet? Do you think I'd actually put a pet in an enclosure? Who knows what could go wrong?

I do have a very nice collection of empty tanks, though. I can sit and watch them for hours.

Kidding aside, critters have a propensity for getting into bad situations. A few weeks ago, I noticed a divider curtain in the house moving and figured my dog was heading back to where I sit in front of the computer. So I called him and the curtain moved even more, but the dog did not approach. So I called him again. The curtain still flapped about but the dog would not come. Puzzled, I walked over to investigate. As it turned out, the hem of the curtain is sewn up with nylon thread. A bit of the thread had come loose, forming a small loop and the dog had somehow managed to get his snout through the small loop and could not get free. part of the loop was in his mouth, and over his snout. I tried to help to no avail until I went and got a pair of scissors to cut the loop.
He was lucky I was home, that nylon was not going to break, he'd likely had remained stuck, with the thread cutting onto the corners of his mouth until I discovered him.
Freak accidents abound when it comes to critters, if it is possible for them to get into trouble, they'll find their way into it. That's why I err on the side of caution when possible. What were the odds of that dog happening to get his snout through the only loose piece of thread in the entire drape, thread-the-needle style? (I checked for more, there were none.)
Your gecko will probably be fine and nothing like I described will happen, I just mentioned that *I* would worry over it.

Not my gecko, but yeah. Just saying that literally anything could cause a "freak accident" - a hide, decoration, food dish, even substrate.

Anyways, blow a kiss to Zuru for me, Hart. Shes the best bean.

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

Oops, I should have directed the last sentence towards the OP, replying to you and commenting to the OP in the same paragraph made it sort of confusing.