Mahalo, everyone
I want to thank everyone who sent suggestions and help on my little
premature day gecko hatchling, Li'i. Unfortunately, she took a severe
turn for the worse and died yesterday despite desperate attempts to save
her. Even at a month old, she was still smaller than the little mourning
gecko hatchling we caught in our kitchen on Monday and released. We
don't even know what Li'i weighed, as our smallest scale only weighed in
grams and she didn't even make that scale quiver.
My husband has a favorite saying: "/Experience is a hard teacher; it
gives the test before the lesson/." We have hundreds of geckos around
us all the time, but we have never "kept" one before. We know we made
mistakes and we have learned from them. We did not realize things could
get so bad so quickly and did not always act fast enough. I am just
sorry that Li'i had to be our learning experience. The little day gecko
hatchlings I catch and take outside all are so different -- some are
brave & leap out of my hands, some are scared and have to be nudged off,
some cautious, some curious. But Li'i was a brave little spunky girl,
who got so used to these big people moving around her and doing things
to her -- but wasn't at all shy in letting us know what she didn't like.
We just can't believe she's gone. :(
Thank you all again for everything. Special thanks to Elizabeth and to
Melody, for their advice and support. It is much appreciated.
Aloha,
Sherron
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Gecko aka Sherron, Kailua Kona, Hawaii (on the Big Island of Hawaii)
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