lizard found in grocery store (Need Help Identifying)

[Joehema]

I need help identifying a small lizard that was found in a grocery store.

Its about 4 inch's long, form head to tail.
The body is about 1 ½ inch's long, the rest is just a long skinny tail.
Its a light brown, with some dark brown spots going down its back.
It was also found in tropical fruits, if that helps.

Don't have any pictures right now, but will get some asap.

Thanks.
(Sorry I don't got much info right now just got it, trying to figure out as much as I can. I live in canada, so I'm assuming he is close to death form long travel, lack of food and colder weather up here.)

I'm also pretty scared to pick him up, don't want to hurt him at all. Can somebody inform me on how to handle small reptiles.

Thanks.

[infernalis]

Pictures will help.

Anoles have been known to hitch rides in produce.

[BarelyBreathing]

My guess is an anole or a house gecko. Pictures would be great.

[millertime89]

My guess is an anole or a house gecko. Pictures would be great.

exactly what I was thinking.

[Kayla90]

Awe poor thing.
I hope you can help get it healthy again.

[DragonsEye]

If the little bugger is:
1) very active, try to "herd" it into a large deli container;
2) bit active, then try to get it to walk onto your hand or into a container;
3) not terribly active at all (quite possible if cold ordehydrated) gently grasp it around the middle part of its body to pick it up.

[Joehema]

Brought it over to Pets-R-Us and they also said it was anole.

@DragonsEye Thanks.

I'll take a picture of him and upload it for you guys to see.

[infernalis]

are you going to keep it?

I had a pet Anole for 4 years before it died once, she was awesome.

[alessia55]

Are you gonna keep the little thing? :)

[beardeds4life]

well what else would he do with it?

[alessia55]

well what else would he do with it?

keep it until the weather is warmer and release it?

[infernalis]

keep it until the weather is warmer and release it?

Not in Canada..

Anoles cannot survive much further north than Georgia, I think the extreme lower part of South Carolina at best.

[KORBIN5895]

well what else would he do with it?

Drop it off at the pet store, feed it to another of his animals or take it to the local schools science lab.

[Jenn_06]

They can live little more north, i see them about my house a few times and my mom has a ton of them in her yard and she lives near Columbia SC.

They are cool lizards they was my first pet when i was little.

[BurmeseGuy]

checker pattern down the back oh kinda like two lines just on either side of center line... definitely a green Anole...typically they stay brown when stressed...my 13 year old has 2 of them...one has been brown since we got him while the other is a bright green...

[Jenn_06]

this is a male i found at my moms.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o284/joejenn06/6-16-201127.jpg

and another one that was sleeping
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o284/joejenn06/6-16-20113.jpg

[BurmeseGuy]

SWEET pictures there Jenn...yeah those are anoles, they puff their chins out like that as a defense mechanism they used to do that back when they were a dime a dozen I would feed them to my Haitian Boa Constrictor...he liked them more than mice...I think those are the "Large Anole" version though...look to be anyways

[DragonsEye]

...yeah those are anoles, they puff their chins out like that as a defense mechanism

That would not be correct. The males in particular do it as both a display when courting females as well as a warning sign to other males to stay out of their "territory".

[infernalis]

Anole Porn......

http://www.ssnakess.info/1xxx.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/reptile3/reptile3-3/IMG00066.jpg