Typical of foreigners, the Waalkes family who have just arrived in Bahrain are keeping a lizard (house gecko) as a pet, rathern than squashing the bloody thing!
I (as a Bahraini) cannot abide lizards, I hate the things with a passion! But my wife, being Scottish, would actually pause and pet them. Ugghhh.
I hate killing them, so rather than do that, I try to chase them out of a window or door to get them on their way. I understand that they serve a very good purpose by keeping bugs down, but I just cannot bring myself to even remotely like them!
Do you have any weird pets?
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bloody foreigners!
Gekkos were common in the Philippines where I was assigned for a tour in the Air Force. I always thought they were kinda cute. It was pretty common for them to get into the house but I never messed with them. They were much better houseguests than those big damned flying cockroaches. I hated those. However, there were so many of those everywhere that after a while you just had to come to a truce with them. If they stayed on their side of their room, you’d stay on yours and nobody gets hurt.
That truce broke down when you went out in public. The electricity would often fail in the evening for a half hour to an hour, sometimes longer. If you went out to a bar (they only had bars outside the base gates), the lights might go out at any moment. The bars kept candles handy and would light them quickly. However, in the dark, all our little cockroach friends would come out to visit.
I was on a date in a bar when the lights went out. When they came back on, a giant cockroach had climbed onto the side of my dates drink. She was looking at the dance floor so a quick flick of my finger sent that roach back into the dark corners from whence he came. And my date never knew the difference.
Steve
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why in hell would you date a cockroach? you’re a very weird man steve! 😆
on the subject of roaches, my wife detests them. so much so that if there is one in the house she would get one of my brothers to come all the way from town to get rid of it if I’m not around! thankfully nowadays we have a philippina lady here who is not scared of these things and she takes care of the situation when I’m not around!
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If you travel anywhere in the Philippines, you are travelling with cockroaches. You’d best make peace with them. Fortunately, they’re giant ones you can see easily, not sneaky little ones like we have here in America.
Steve
bloody foreigners!
When my brother lived in the Far East for a few years, he encouraged geckos to live in his house because they ate the evil giant and truly disgusting cockroaches.
As children living in rural England we had all sorts of pets – dogs, cats, horses, a ridiculous looking chicken that laid round eggs, a blind cow, a grass snake, slow worms (legless lizards), stick insects, ferrets, guinea pigs, mice, gerbils and a jackdaw (member of the crow family) that we hand-reared after it fell from its nest as a fledgling.
bloody foreigners!
I have one neighbor who has a pet iguana – a BIG lizard, about two feet long. Another neighbor has a boa constrictor, which is about 10 feet long. Sadly, it lives indoors, otherwise it may do something about eating some of the multitudinous possums, squirrels, skunks, and other furbearing varmints that try to eat our vegetable garden every year.
Here’s a picture of an iguana
bloody foreigners!
These geckos don’t seem to cause much trouble, and they help to keep the bug population down,… but they’re just too creepy. But for some reason I can’t justify myself killing an animal just because I find it creepy. The solution? A cat. My cat absolutely loves geckos and will do anything to get one. I am amazed at her patience coz I’ve seen her wait up to two days for a gecko to come out of its hiding place.
But I kind of feel bad for the gecko though. Coz if I were to kill it myself I would squash it in one blow. My cat however likes to play with it and torturing it for upto an hour before finally eating it (or losing interest in it). She usually bites off one limb at a time, and then throws the torso up in the air tries to catch it with her claws.
But I don’t think cat would last very lang with phoebe and gnasher, no?
… a face only a mother could love (?)
Everyone makes fun of Pookie, my little Cornish Rex. He’s the best cat in the world! The most unique personality (for a cat), I’ve ever grown to know … a real pal! Someone emailed me the other day and said “Next time, get an animal with fur!”. Pookie has fur, but it’s more like fuzz. 🙂
In the browser behind Pookie, is a Cornish Rex kitten. So cute!
[img]http://s91595436.onlinehome.us/animals/pookie/cornishrex-info.jpg[/img]
I started a Cornish Website too – nothing much but links to other Rex sites, but hey, the domain was up for grabs! [url]www.CornishRex.info[/url]
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In our 1st appartment in Manama we had a cat that could open doors, but it reserved this “skill” for the door of the toilet, and only when I happened to be on the throne. She would come in and sit directly opposite me, looking at me. Not making any demands, neither yowling nor mewing. Just sitting. Use to frreak me out! “What?” I would shout at her,”What do you want?!”
Y’see the longer the cat watched me, the more time I would need to complete operations. So long, in fact, I often lost the power of my legs.
Now I have a triple mortice CHUBB locking mechanism.
Can’t do it if I being watched.
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Holy Christ….someone throw that cat a bone!
Just kidding Sandee…..but really….is that particular breed supposed to be that skinny? Or is he fasting?
Cool eyes, though.
Back to the geckos….when I first moved to Oman, within hours of my arrival, I had one of those freakin’ geckos fall on my shoulder and crawl down my back.
Welcome to Oman.
Re(1): … a face only a mother could love (?)
that would freak the living daylight out of me!
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Yes…it did. I didn’t know what it was when it dropped…and I screamed bloody murder while the hub-unit was laughing his ass off. Nice. People in Yemen could hear me screaming. Later, I told my mother-in-law about it. She told me that it was probably good luck or something like that. I think she was just being nice.
I also had one that used to sit in my bathroom window….just chillin’ and watching us do our thang in the restroom. I nicknamed him Tom….short for “peeping Tom”.
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ROFL…we have cats that do that …..try going and sitting in front of their box and talking to them while they do their business lolol ….they will look really offended….they can dish it out but not take it!!!!!!!!!!