We signed up to bring home the pet gecko that lives in my son’s classroom. For a while now I’ve thought that a reptile or other caged animal might make a good pet – still not sure. We were given feeding instructions by his teacher, along with supplies and a cage of about a dozen crickets. We watched with anticipation as the crickets explored the cage, however, Bumpy didn’t seem interested in any of them. OK, so she’s not hungry right now, we thought. The next time she was scheduled to be fed, instead of sprinkling the calcium powder on the crickets (a method that seemed to hardly have any effect), we put a cricket into a container with the powder and shook it up until it was coated like flour over a ball of bread dough. Once in the cage it immediately got the gecko’s attention and within 30 seconds Bumpy had lunged, bitten down and gulped the defenseless insect.
Other crickets soon perished, some fed to Bumpy, others either starvation or old age. By the end of our 4 days, 6 or so dead crickets littered the bottom of their container.
Alas.
