Thursday, August 23, 2007

nope, not a fish, not food, well at least not for US...

ok, picture it, there i am, early in the morning, like 530 a.m. sittin here on the computer k? see it? one light on, so pretty dim in the house. i see my cats, both of them, very interested in "something"... they continually play with it for like a half hour, maybe longer. to me, in the dim light, and with their shadows above "it"... i am thinking, perhaps it's a string. (this "thing" that is perhaps 1" long. or so. maybe 2 inches. so, i am too lazy to get up and investigate... but i keep looking at them, and try to focus my blind eyes on this "thing they are playing with so intently. finally, my curiosity gets the better of me, and i get up off my lard ass, and go see what "it" is. wanna know?? a baby gecko !!! a little tiny pink baby gecko. not only inside my house, who has sadly become a plaything for my cats... but he is also, dead. would my laziness have prevented his most untimely demise, had i got off my arse to investigate earlier? i will never know. but i did give him a decent burial into the trash can, away from any further torture from my evil kitty cats.

i attempted some photos, but there was too much reflection for a good picture. this is the only one that i could somewhat alter enough of the light out of to view. goodbye sweet gecko baby.


24 comments:

josie2shoes said...

Awwww. That is the one instinctive cat behavior that I found hard to live with... the killing things - birds, lizards, mice (well - the mice part was ok), but what bothered me the most was the baby rabits - they are so beautiful. What a way to start your morning Soul Sis, but I bet the cats are still smiling at the adventure.

Jamie said...

Poor poor gecko baby....

I love the Gieko gecko, but I am not a big fan of them otherwise...I didn't know they ran around texas, but i used to find them in my house in phoenix....

SOUL said...

hey look, it's my friends who live in the computer!
oh it didn't really bother me all that much jos, i was just trying to be dramatic. apparently it worked. lol.
the things cats kill and bring to show off at your feet don't bother me as much as the prizes that dogs like to bring home. (i had a dog one time that killed our pet bunny...it was a horrible site, and that was actually a bit traumatizing)
so, the little gecko...nuthin in comparison. a bit amusing, if ya want the truth.

jamie, i love the geiko gecko too. actually i like real ones too. they eat bugs! when i was overseas we would keep one in our barracks room to eat the giant roaches!!! they were green there..for some reason they are pink here. i was tellin yankee, maybe they are pink here to match the brick color??? green over there to match the leaves? hell if i know.

anyhow.. i hope you are both finding yourselves in somewhat of better day today???

i can't really tell yet.. all i've done is piss around on the computer and pay a bill or two.... luckily they have online bill pay... i thought i paid my electric bill... OOPS.. got a shut off notice yesterday!! thank God i got paid yesterday as well eh?
PHEW
latah tatahs
(why the hell do i say that??)

Rebecca said...

poor little guy!!! Can't say I'd want it in my HOUSE, but I don't even want to think about what my kitties would do to it! Probably wouldn't have emerged whole! Blech.

CRUSTY MOM-E said...

Poor baby Gecko..course, had his mommy been watching him in the first place, this lil guy would have never wandered off on his own to meet with snarls and mew mew's.
Don't blame yourself..
if anything, your kittys are charged up at what "mommy let them play with.." They love you even more for it now.

Better a lizard than a copperhead.
egad!
heading out for a smoke in a bit..my 2nd one since 6am..
wanna join me in that virtual smoke break??

Always,
Crusty~

Oldy said...

ha! that's what i was gonna say. better a lizard then a snake!

i am in the middle of painting one accent wall in my bedroom .i do believe it's gonna look fabulous!i shall post when i'm done.

i'm sweating! feel this!

Portia said...

aw. better a gecko than a furry rodent or snake...which, by the way, is where i was sure you were goin with that. (phew) why on earth do you get up so freakin early???

SOUL said...

yes, much bettah than a snake...especially INSIDE my house!!! ICK.

only your second smoke crusty? criminey... you're gooood. i'm prolly on my second PACK by now! (HACK * HACK)
i'm on my way!!!

OLDY.. come paint my house!! oh nevermind... i hate this house. will i ever live somewhere i love again?? ugh. i haven't loved a house in 12 years, since our first one in florida. ahhhhhh. the heartbreak of it all.
*SIGH*

SOUL said...

rebecca..what kind of cats and how many do you have??

SOUL said...

portia... good lord don't do that!@
you snuck right in on me!!
geesh
and yes.. i agree.. again.. i had no problem picking the little dude up to toss him in the trash.. yankee seemed rather disgusted that i touched him.. no worse than a fish i said. anyhow... if it were a mouse or snake, you'd be damn sure, I wouldn't be the one gettin rid of the carcass!
and why do i get up so early?? i wish someone would tell me that, then maybe i could do somethin about it. actually...i doubt that. i have always got up early. sleepin til 7 is about as late as it goes for me, and even then i feel like someone else might if they slept til noon.
oh well. i'd probably not sleep at all without meds. or my schedule would be even worse. before meds i stayed up til about 4 or so, and was up by 6 or 7... and worked, so had no naps back then.
why am i saying all this?
cuz sometimes i just can't shut up!
whaddaya doin?
oldy is painting, crusty is smokin, jamie is surely workin, rebecca is naked.. and josie is ummm hmmm i don't know what she;s doin..do you?

Rebecca said...

Soul, I have 3 cats:

Tilly: Female tiger stripe, 12 years old and neurotic. My kitty.

Chumley: Male domestic short hair, really pretty, really sweet, my favorite. Sleeps on my pillow. My kitty.

Sir Jeffrey Underfoot, Lord of the Wind: Male white and tiger stripe. Dumb as a box of rocks! Has a foot fetish, and farted when he was a kitten, hence the name. Alpha male, and did i mention STOOPID?!?!? Got him for Chris, but yup, he's my kitty.

Rebecca said...

rebecca is NAKED?? which rebecca?

Anonymous said...

Even Rocky kills them! Between he and Cody, they don't stand much of a chance on our homestead! auntie j

Rebecca said...

OOOOO, that would be me naked, according to the fortune cookie thingy :) I forgot.

josie2shoes said...

Josie is workin' "hard" here at the office and tryin' to keep her eyes open. She is contemplating how nice it will be to work only a 1/2 day tomorrow. :-)

SOUL said...

you just made me laugh out loud rebecca... WHO??? oh ME! funny. yes you.
great cat names. sound very cool.
my cats are also neurotic, and retahded. but loved. and hated. yep... we have a love hate relationship. they love me and i hate them. :))

josie, i wasn't sure if you were workin or not. i knew you had time off comin, but i lost track. i bet that doesn't surprise ya tho, does it?
have you figured out what you will be doing with your half day yet?
you're all caught up on your work right? so that means ya get to play?

josie2shoes said...

I am never all caught up on my work, Soul - at least it doesn't seem so. Tomorrow afternoon will be spent cleaning up my house, maybe doing a little laundry, and getting the back room ready to move in all the boxes from the farm - still haven't figured out how I'm gonna fit that many in there yet, I think the stacks will be about 8 boxes high... yikes!! I need a garage!

Anonymous said...

hey soul...(hey josie)... hey all... yikes soul TOUCHED it... my god..... yes im a wimp SORRY!...
i didnt post again... forgive me!! been MIAing this past few days... aaargh... later... bye....

Jamie said...

What did Soul touch??? Oh, the Geico Gecko...

SOUL said...

you sound like me jos.. i always have something to catch up on too.

yankee.. that didn't sound quite right.. :))

hiya jamie... the geico gecko. the poor dead geico gecko.

EE said...

Poor little guy... we saw a ton of them in Key Biscayne.
Our cat used to bring home the heads of mice:o

SOUL said...

mice heads mice heads roly poly mice heads ! eat em up yum!

Blur Ting said...

Oh no, another one bites the dust. My Rusty's always terrorising little geckos too. We're in the same shoes.

SOUL said...

Blur.. you're just in time !! yankee said my post here on the asian vs. american geckos was too tame. that i said pink here and green over there. i should have spiced it up some. so now that you're here, i can ask you this so very important question...
blur? the pink geckos that we have here , are they pink because they're crackahs??? and y'alls are not cuz they're cool asian green???

(ok now.. y'all know i'm just playin.. just playin.. k?)if this makes you mad..blame yankee!! :)