Spotty the gecko is the perfect model. There is an old saying “never work with children or animals” but he is the most cooperative creature. He’s very sociable and loves to be interacted with and will happily pose for the camera. He’s not like the children or the cats, or in fact, my husband, all of whom have to be heavily bribed to even take nice photos for their grandparents let alone anything for social media. I love them all really, though.
He really is the most endearing little thing, he enjoys being handled, loves company and even enjoys watching tv with us, and in fact will look at the tv when it’s off, wondering when we will put it back on. He’s been with us for a year now, and we have got very used to having him around and he’s slotted in well. He has his own Instagram too if you would like to keep up with him here
He is very easy to look after and other than cleaning his terrarium he isn’t high maintenance. He does however eat live food, which took me a while to get used to, as it does feel rather strange to have to feed one creature another creature.
As you can see, we caught him posing with his food. He clearly is a social media poser. After all, did you really enjoy your meal if you didn’t get a good photo of it first then share it with the world?
This photo actually has to be credited to the husband who took it whilst feeding Spotty, using our fancy new iPhone 11 phones, which has a not bad camera at all.
Spotty did, in case you are wondering, eat his food after he had nicely posed with it, he is, after all, a gecko first, social media poser second.
love the gecko!
What a beautiful creature Spotty the gecko is! His eyes are amazing x
aw wow, amazing close up X #mysudayphoto
That’s a striking image, with such great detail. Your gecko is a splendid model indeed.
I wanted to get a gecko but its the live food I couldn’t handle so I didn’t. Lovely close up
Aww he is so cute! And it sounds like he has a fabulous personality! I’m not sure how I would get on feeding the live meals tho!
It took a lot of getting used to, feeding him live food!
That’s quite funny having a gecko that poses. One of our labradors does as well. Never quite in the right position, but if she sees the phone come out, she’ll sit and look at me
He’s so cute #mysundayphoto
Thank you. I think so too.
What a fantastic photo. I must say it’s never appealed to me to have a reptile as a pet, but he sounds like an adorable little character.
That’s a brilliant photo of your gecko posing with his food. He does look very endearing there. I love that he has his own Instagram account. #project366
He’s better at Instagram than me! 😉
Haha it looks like it’s teasing the food, ready to pounce.
Thank you for linking up to #MySundayPhoto
He’s the only being in the house allowed to play with his food! 😉
That is a beautiful photo of spotty, he has got gorgeous eyes. I take it the locust was lunch LOL
It was very much dinner. He is a pretty lizard, and he knows it!
Wow, that is an incredible picture! I can’t believe you got there before the food was devoured. #mysundayphoto
Spotty is so gorgeous! I would love to get a tortoise and my mum adores snakes. Something wonderful about reptiles #project366
That is an awesome picture! You can almost see him smiling! Gecko’s are awesome, my parents always have lots running around the outside of their house and sometimes inside too. My daughter has tried to smuggle some back with us before so always need to check her bags! Such fascinating creatures but that is a fab up close picture! Hope you are having a lovely week! Sim x
Hahahah, Spotty looks so beautiful! I felt the same way about feeding live animals when I had snakes as a pet. It’s alot of work! It’s quite surprising that Spotty stayed still for the picture before eating the insect
My brother use to have one of these when we were growing up and it was really friendly too. Make great pets and fab snap!
He’s a handsome fellow isn’t he? I think it was the live food that put me off having a reptile – we looked after one once when friends were on holiday.