Do you think the cedar mulch will hurt him? I mean I assume they have been dealing with these conditions for many years but I don’t really know. I hope you are right, though! What could be wrong and what can i do to help him. Often, we’ll see them running around for several days, and by the time I’m able to catch them, they are often a sickly pale pink color, so skinny I can’t believe they are still alive, and their eyes and innards are easily visible through their pale skin (I have pics, if I could post them). Hi Dexi, Leopard geckos aren’t native to Alabama, and so they shouldn’t be allowed to live outside there. (I wouldn’t recommend releasing them at night.) He lay there and closed his eyes, and looked comfortable, just opening his eyes for a few minutes whenever I came in to check on him. try dipping a lizard in liquid nitrogen. Before I returned him outdoors, I made a small home for him from one of those small U.S. mailing boxes. Thanks for doing what you can! If it’s winter, then this can very well make the cold side of your tank way too cold. Will such young ones even be able to fend for themselves outdoors, or am I better off keeping them inside until they grow a bit? Now that I know that geckos lay eggs in twos, I think they may be recent hatchlings, and I may have just separated them from their mother. Can you recommend anything else that will kill this lizard? thank you Michele. I’ve done my best to research and provide them a healthy happy habitat. And, since it’s a cool temp inside your home, his metabolism rate is probably fairly low and he doesn’t need a lot of food to subsist. Also, I’m thinking you have to keep your border collie away from your little lizard friends, mine likes to chase them when they get in the garage…sadly I’ve found a few tails (yay they got away) https://photos.app.goo.gl/vSYVNsZVH1M7zyNg2, Thanks for your comment, Donna! Hi,my sister and I found two eggs in a lizard colony I guess you can say in our backyard where we were fixing stuff. Eliza How long do ground skinks live for? Hi Michelle I’ll heed your advice & leave him outdoors where he belongs unless we get freezing temps. At least 2 spiny lizards were hanging around my direct vent gas fireplace (not a traditional chimney fireplace). But in the fall and winter when the temperature drops, we don’t see many lizards anymore. I live in Charleston SC and we have Anoles all over In the past week we’ve found 3-4 of them dead, and in fact today I found one dead this morning while letting my dogs out and then again this evening found one dead on my porch – both green. Hi Tyler – If you’re looking for a long-lived lizard that could be a good pet, you might consider a bearded dragon. I was told that reptiles really don’t go into full hibernation in warmer climates. The good news is that anoles are territorial, and I would expect you might see him in the same place again next spring! I agree that if you let them loose around your home, your cats will probably kill them. We only have a UV light for him at the moment, but it keeps the tempature in his cage at around 80 degrees. Once they’re warm, they’ll start running after food and chasing other lizards again! Hi I found a lizard in my yard in St. Aqustine FL and my puppy got to a lizard. i have never been into reptiles of any kind but hes a friendly fella and hes grown on me. In any case, if you’re keeping this lizard as a pet, you’d need to provide it with a heat lamp for basking. now for about 3 days. And while having pets can be a lot of fun, you’re right that it’s usually best for wild animals to stay outdoors. There are also special heating pads that you could use, but those may not be available at general pet stores (you could find them online). Please replly ASAP The lizard that came into my house was gray in color and appeared to be whitish when I saw it on friday. I never saw them until this year but they must have been there for a while. & what turned out to be my apparent last chance to capture & release him. Oops. Would he need a bigger place? The nights have been getting colder and colder as the mountains around us are getting snowned up (whereas the coast around the island has warm weather) and I am getting worried about the little lad or lass.It has moved away from AC used to heat up the room to the opposite room. Thank you so much in advance! And I saw from your second comment that you’ve learned that your species is parthenogenetic (all females), which makes them even more interesting. And, cheesy as it may sound, I hate the idea of it not being there anymore as it gets colder outside! One of the eggs fell and now has a little patch missing you can see the lizard inside of it what do we Do? I’m glad to know I’m not freezing them to death, but will make an effort to keep them inside longer if the temperature is near freezing. All three are still crawling around. Thank you, MJAdmin! She never caught on to the fact they kept catching the same on over and over. He was normal the next day. I put him outside in the sun, and he rolled over, on his back (which is the most he’s moved). Hi! What do you think I can do to keep him warmer when the temperature drops to the 40s-50s????? I know they lie dormant when it’s cold. I heard strange noises and found they had dropped down inside- I could see them behind the glass. I am sending you this message along with some pictures to your email address that I found in an earlier post. In any case, I wouldn’t suggest changing anything about the shed, but I agree it seems unlikely that these guys (if they are anoles) would make it through the winter. My question is can I put them back outside or will they be ok in the garage until it warms up a little. In the evening they head up to the roof around the same time each day if they are in the backyard. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them this small before. I never see the lizards outside when it’s cold. Strange. Hi Stella, If your lizard is inside with a heat lamp or heating pad, you might want to use an automated timer to turn off the heating element at night. The scenario you suggest is possible, that the escaped lizard was gravid and managed to reproduce and they survived, but is not “supposed” to happen with the kind of weather you experience in PA. Also, anoles don’t usually hang out together, as they defend territories from one another (and have no parental care), so it’s also a little curious that you saw them in a group. Hi Lindsay, Sounds like a cool lizard friend you’ve got! I was wondering if you had any ideas why it died? I don’t want him to be too hot or too cold. Am I wrong? Thank you, MJadmin! – Cheers, Michele, Hi Michelle, We were packing our Christmas items away in my house, and my younger son noticed this anole sleeping on his Charlie Brown Christmas tree branch. My daughter found a baby brown lizard yesterday. Smaller dogs tend to become chilled faster than larger dogs. and a small common brown lizard got into my house and I have seen him in my bathroom several times but can’t catch him. I’m so grateful for your kind words. The bedroom is mostly unoccupied as my son leaves partly in mainland France. (See http://lizardsandfriends.org/#for-teachers, “How to keep green anoles as classroom pets.”) If you’d like to keep your lizard as a personal pet, you might find the advice there to be helpful! Diana, Thank you for your input, Michelle. However, the temps warmed up this past weekend and the critter ventured over to the middle of the screen, hung out a bit, and then headed right back to the far side again. Since he can’t burrow into the ground, at what temperature would it be safe to release him? Don’t know what kind they are, but just a common ole lizard! Some form of warm habitat I can make for it? After finding this site and reading the article, comments, and your responses, I decided it would be best to release her back outside. I have some Greater Short Horned Lizards I would like to hibernate then release into the wild next year (I live to far from their natural habitat to do it this fall, some idiot caught them and I raised them.) As you’ll see in the other comments on this post, cold lizards are slow lizards, because their metabolism dramatically slows as temperatures go down. Last time I saw him was on August 15th. Sock filled with rice for heating pad. Hello, Michelle- As a result, scutes pile up on top of each other when new scutes grow in under the old retained ones, a condition referred to in reptiles as pyramiding. We live in the East Bay of the SF Bay Area. The lizard would probably be fine outside, but it takes a lot more work to keep them healthy indoors. Came back from Florida last week after moving a family member with my truck (colder than normal). The best way a reptile owner can prevent hypothermia in their pet is to educate him or herself about the environmental conditions the pet’s species requires to thrive. Or, he might like the perch he’s found on the door, and is sitting there because he prefers it. I assume you probably bought mealworms from the pet store. This means they are cold-blooded, have scales, lay eggs, and are vertebrates. I just wanted to say thank you for being another “keeper of the wild” person. Fred and I have been wondering how they know what time to head off to “bed”, otherwise known as the roof. Lack of proper digestion of food makes the beardie to lose appetite. Because of this, we get up to ten lizards on the bathroom window. If it was an anole, it was most likely an invasive brown anole, or a native green anole (although the green anoles can change between green and brown body color, we still call them green anoles; http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Anolis_carolinensis/). I feel horrible for letting her get this way but I've only had her a week and tonight's the first night her tank has been this cold. I would very much like for him to leave. the temperature dropped down to 50 degrees. If you don’t want to put him in a cage but you want to make sure he has enough to eat, I’d suggest maybe once a week putting him in a small box with a few crickets (dusted in reptical), let him eat in the confined space, and then place him back in the houseplants. I know I sound like a crazy person…I have fallen in love with her, but it’s so stressful keeping her away from our indoor cat! I hope he pulls through, but I don’t know of anything else you might do, besides spraying his cage with water and offering small (live) insects to eat. The two species look very different, especially in their eyes and the smoothness of the scales on their backs (leopard geckos are smooth with some bumps; fence lizards are somewhat spiky). I only ever saw all three at the same time once, shortly before I stopped seeing them just before winter. Any advice would be really helpful. I am a fan of all of them, and I do not get any type of pest control because I don’t want to get rid of their food source. Thanks , Bernadette, Are there any kinds of lizards that would live on my lanai in SW Florida without caging him. I’m sorry but they scare me very much. Found a lizard outside late.at night on the freezing concrete, mouth hanging open. Best, Michele. The more things I do right, the less vet visits I will have. 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