War on Lizards

I had been told by our Malaysian housemate, Lionel, that house lizards are a common pest here. He and the only other male Asian here are both terrified of them. I thought being on the fourth floor we wouldn't have anything to worry about, but it would appear we have a small family living with us. I must admit, the more times I've seen them in our apartment, the more scared of them I've become. When their outside it doesn't bother me at all though.

Luckily Barrett is fearless of these small cute lizards, but he accidentally killed a baby one when he squeezed it a bit too hard as he was trying to take it outside.

Since I knew we had more than one extra roommate, I started researching how to get rid of house lizards. As I was reading different forums, I couldn't help but notice how weird most of the people were who were writing into the forum. They were either so terrified that they wouldn't open a door that had a lizard near it, or talking about how they are trying to train their new pet. Most people were saying they were a good thing because they eat the insects in your house and that their droppings are just proof of all the bugs there were eating for us. I did not buy into it. It reminded me of the releasing of cane toads to eat beetles in Australia which ended up backfiring and has left north western Australia overrun with the massive toads.

Cane Toad

Anyways, as I was wasting time reading all these weird people's posts on the forums, I realized that I was on a forum about house lizards, and thus one of the weirdos. I went down to ask the reception about a place to get something to rid me of the lizards, and she said she would send someone up to our apartment to take care of it. An Indian man arrived with some powders and sprays and killed one with the insecticide while he was here. I was hoping he would just grab it and take it outside, but he did not understand me very well, and I didn't understand much of what he said. Regardless, of the three different lizards I've seen, two are dead, and one large one lives on.