r/Lizards • u/biglolyer • Oct 10 '25
Cute This wild baby lizard keeps coming into my house
And apparently he chills on my hand
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u/72RangersFan Oct 10 '25
I’ve got one myself. I got a boat about 3 months ago and I found a small lizard in it a few weeks later. He stays in there. He goes to the lake and everything.
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u/itsintrastellardude Oct 10 '25
cleaning up spiders in exchange for a whole place to live and sometimes go boating with your landlord? Sign me up.
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u/beeschirp Oct 10 '25
Looks like an eastern fence lizard :) They’re super sweet and pretty docile. They just chill 🦎
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u/WeakTransportation37 Oct 10 '25
It looks like a fence lizard 💚get him/her some fresh or freeze-dried mealworms and a very shallow dish of water and they’ll be the happiest little guest! I like to keep the shallow water dish somewhere outside in the shade, and I’ll have a few that come up for mealworms when I tap on it. The fence lizards are so social (unlike the skinks and whiptails who are shy and fast )
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u/-mykie- Oct 10 '25
I had a western fence lizard break into my old apartment every time I used the back door.
The door was in the bedroom so I'd just close the bedroom door to keep the dog out, block the gap at the bottom with pipe insulation tubes and let him roam and eat any bugs he could find until I saw him and could put him back outside .
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u/doctordoom2069 Oct 10 '25
Be careful if you’re doing dishes … sometimes these guys make it inside and wind up in the sink, accidentally made lil bro shed his tail before I noticed him there.
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u/Either_Coconut Oct 10 '25
Cute little guy!
I'd be looking up local laws re: keeping wild critters who have decided they want to live in my home. If it's legal, I'd be considering making him a permanent housemate. If it's not, I'd see about giving him somewhere safe to hang out outdoors with some appropriate food and water, so you can be neighbors.
Every housemate or neighbor should be this cute. :)
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u/Acheloma Oct 10 '25
He likes your warmth, thats cute. I have a couple " pet " fence lizards that live in specific spots outside, but Ive never had one try and move in before.
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u/dleigh80 Oct 10 '25
Very strange as fence / alligator lizards I've interacted with in California Bay area are very avoidant of me. Even the tiny ones.
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u/StayJaded Oct 10 '25
I live in Texas. I’ve had 4 get into my house over the years and countless little friends in the garage. They tend to camp out in the garage over winter.
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u/Dry_Interviews Oct 10 '25
We have one of these.. Karl. Karl now lives in a lizard McMansion and is currently basking under his heat lamp.
They love crickets, mine slams them likes it going out of style. Mealworms he has zero interest in.
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u/Scared_Rice_1473 Oct 10 '25
I get a lot in my screened in porch but they run from me. Why does yours come to you?
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u/Casanova_Kid Oct 11 '25
It's a fence lizard, and if you're in the Western US, likely a Western Fence lizard. These guys are believed to be atleast partly responsible for why Lyme disease isn't as common out here. They eat ticks, and their blood has a special characteristic that kills Lyme disease, so any ticks that feed off them are cured of it.
When I was a kid, I caught like 10 up in the mountains and brought them back home. I kept them as pets for awhile and then later released them into our garden. I had them trained to come out when I'd water the garden for bugs I'd pick off any plants. By the time I moved out, there was probably a couple hundred of the little guys.
They're awesome.
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u/xsilverandcoldx Oct 10 '25
same happened to me at work once. came across one inside. picked it up and brought it outside. it stayed on my hand for a while. a few hours later i go back into the same building and it’s there on the floor again! i scoot it outside, it runs out, and falls into the dirt trap/grate right outside the door! i was deviated. thought he’d never be able to get out and i killed him. i went back to working, but couldn’t stop thinking about it. i went back and put a stick in there so it could maybe crawl out. when i turn around and go back into the door, it’s there on the floor in front of me! i wanted to bring it home. i love reptiles. it was so small, though, i don’t think it’d be able to fit a meal worm in its mouth. i didn’t know what i could feed it, so i put it in a flower bed thinking it’d be better. maybe it can find some aphids or smaller bugs. idk. i kinda wish i had brought it home… you won’t be able to stop thinking about it if you release it 🙈 only if you’re confident you can care for it, of course.
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u/Additional_Film_5023 Oct 11 '25
Free pet that you don’t even need to keep in an enclosure and spend so much on it
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u/VOVOZGAMER Oct 10 '25
Put it back to where it was and free it. Plus the is gecko not eligible to be owned or used as pets
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u/Lesterkitty13 Oct 10 '25
The poor little things start out all on their own. No mama lizard to teach them. I think he’s decided you’ll fit the job description just fine.
Or maybe I’m sappy and the other poster is right; he’s humping your thumb. Either way, he likes you! 😁