Geckos & tortoise

KarenSoCal

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Ok...
so after along research I have found that all of you were right and I was wrong this Gecko is like any other geckos only causes salmonella but I have heard many stories in my life and on many sites on how this egyption gecko sprays poison on salt and water and gets infections to people like leprosy,
turns out all of this are Superstitions and sadly alot of people still belive that this is true
but there is another thing I have been wondering ,while I was cleaning the house and searching for the gecko, I found it and when I did and it saw me in a time of a blink it ran away like a bullet to my room ,since then it have been more than 3 days ,still no sign of it.
all of egyption geckos do that
and here are some pictures of the geckoView attachment 275014


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I appreciate all of your help thank you
I think he is beautiful!
 

puffinboots

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Yes geckos are beautiful, when I was on a visit to Arizona I bought a couple of ceramic geckos that I fixed to the walls in our desert farm. One lady was rather shocked because as omarnael said , people in the Middle East have been brought up to fear geckos & blame them for any kind of food poisoning. Hopefully google & forums like this will help to dispel the misinformation.
 

KarenSoCal

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Please! No one get offended! I have quoted a short section of the Bible in this post as an interesting addendum to this topic. If you are upset by this...stop reading here!

I find it fascinating that it is Middle Easterners that believe this, and I suspect that belief has been in place for thousands of years.

I am conjecturing here, but I think the forefathers of these Middle Easterners learned this from Moses' Children of Israel.

This is from Leviticus, the 3rd book of today's Christian Bible.

Leviticus 11:29-30 NKJV

'These also shall be unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the mole, the mouse, and the large lizard after its kind; [30] the gecko, the monitor lizard, the sand reptile, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.'

These rules were directly from God, delivered to the people by Moses.

These, and many other animals, were not to be touched or eaten, and even if they ran over a vessel or fell into one, the vessel was then unclean.
 
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