Boy those marble geckos can bite

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So The other night I get home from work at 10pm and I`m tired and grumpy from a long bad day.

Well thats no excuse you still have to take care of all those pets.(damn it)

I run through the house (more than likely doing a half-fast job) spilling cat food an dogs food on the floor while filling the dishes and so on.

I run upstairs to my own little reptile rooms. I have onw for the iguana and one for everybody else. I check up on lucy and she`s fine - so I yell down to the B/F to bring up her salad since he will be comming up to bed and I run and get her fresh water and promise her that mommy will play with her better tomorrow.

Then I burst into the nskae/lizard room and crack open the crickets and meallies and splash them across acouple tanks, feed my rat (she ate a meal worn by the way) and give everyone a quick hello and run to my bedroom and lay down just in time to catch some CSI(yes I know - nerd) before I pass out.

While laying in bed I mention to my partner that having this many animals really isn`t that bad because with a half hour of time you can take care of everyones needs if you really have to.

NEXT DAY:

I head up to my reptile room just to visit with my new rat Shelly, and hold a few snakes. Well as I am giving Shelly her honey drops I see something out of the corner of my eye.

&$*^$( - the door for the marble gecko tank is open - I don`t even know why I bothered to look inside - but I did and yes he/she was gone.
I think -perfect - real nice - then I replay in my head the conversation the night before - 'oh yeah its soo easy to take care of all the animals a half hour....blah, blah, blah.' WHO WAS I KIDDING - I rush around like a fool and suddenly I have a friggen wall climbing gecko (named freaky because he is such a spaz) out of its cage.

First I thank God that I decided to move everything to its own room instead of having all the tanks and what not in the common area of the house (my house is pretty big )

Second I wonder how I`m gonna catch it.

Third I yell '....curtis I need help'

We bump around the room for awhile and finally it comes shooting out from behind a shelving unit and up to the top of a wall - without much thought i grabbed the screen lid from a 3 gal tank we have and put it over it - slid newspaper underneth and fliped into the three gallon tank.

No PROBLEM!

Next was to move it from the mini tank to his enclosure. I have never held him before because they have very sensative skin - oh yeah and because he is psycho and if you even stick your hand in his enclosure he screams and bounces all over.

I I decided I only had one choice ( by this time this marble gecko is pure white and breathing like he just did 75 laps around the room) - I had to just grab it fast and throw it in its enclosure and thats that.

Well my b/f - not helping because this little marble gecko freaks him out stands off to the side and watches laughing as I garb this ^%#&^% thing and when i do ut grabs onto my fingure real good with its little mouth and bites down soo hard. Probably harder than my adult corns ever could. I`m cursing and yelling I bump it off my hand into its tank - and finally the ordeals over.

My b/f looks at me / my bleeding finger and says " man, you have bigger gonads than me"

and I say - 'boy those marble geckos can bite"

PS THANK GOODNESS FOR A REPTILE ROOM