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Either a mouse/rat or gecko in my house is getting bigger and bolder - help!

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    Either a mouse/rat or gecko in my house is getting bigger and bolder - help!

    I've been in a village house for over 2 years now, and always had geckos around, and other than a small poop here and there occasionally - it's not been a problem.

    Recently, the poops have been getting more frequent - like every morning in the corner of the kitchen, and it's escalated: 2 days ago, something ate through a hanging plastic garbage bag that had an old banana I threw away at 11pm, and would be removing at 7am. The bag didn't have claw / teeth marks - it was torn and the bananna skin was also torn, with the torn pieces below the bag, and some of the banana eaten.

    Well, today, two eggs on my countertop were broken into! Again, no teeth marks.

    I've read that geckos don't have teeth - just gums. Also, the poops don't have any white to them, like I think mouse poops are supposed to... is it possible for the gecko to break into an egg?

    Any ideas? How do I go about trapping this thing? I don't have a cat... yet. And my kitchen is clean as it's been for 2 years, and this has just really "begun" I feel....in fact, I have no roaches!


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    Get a cat before this thing outgrows you and kicks you out of the house.

    A surveillance camera and some bait might reveal the little sucker if you are curios...

    Last edited by 100LL; 23-06-2011 at 04:01 PM.
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    Seriously doubt that it's geckos. I had them in my place all the time in Singapore. Never once did they eat anything other than the bugs or do anything like you are describing.


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    I lived in a building with many geckos for 7.5 years. They never break into plastic bags, eat bananas or eggs. I welcome them because they cleaned up all the mosquitoes, tiny spiders, and smaller insects in the house so I don't mind cleaning up their poops.

    Get a pest specialist to come take a look, I hope it's something else making trouble so you don't have to get rid of the geckos
    Also, cats always help.


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    I'm thinking rat I'm afraid - can a mouse break into an egg? (I really am asking that, no idea!)


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    Leaving eggs on the counter, and not keeping them in the fridge, eggs can get maggots which can break them open.


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    Eeeuw

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    Reminds me of a story I heard last week about a farmer who was puzzled his cows were always roaming around outside their shed every morning. So he installed a surveillance camera to catch the guy who was was letting them out. This is what he found:
    YouTube - ‪Smart Cow Opens Gate with Tongue‬‏


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ramdom:
    Leaving eggs on the counter, and not keeping them in the fridge, eggs can get maggots which can break them open.
    How would maggots get into an unbroken egg? Just asking, never heard of it before but anything is possible in HK!

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    hmm eggs are porous maybe thats how ? those damn tricky maggots!


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