If you found a lizard in the room with you.......

Catch him and take him outside.

Our cats love to chase them; we find a lot of tailless or chewed up ones in our house but will do our best to catch and save them.

Unfortunately they scoot really fast, run behind furniture, etc so we aren’t always able to save them.

Don’t call an exterminator!

Poor little harmless thing. I just love how so many people’s first reaction to what they don’t understand or like is to kill. And little kids, who are easy to teach to be curious and in awe of nature and to respect living things get taught to be afraid and kill too, instead of learning how bugs and animals all fit into important slots in nature. It just hurts my heart.

Like with the black rat snake (which some people call black snakes). Just wants to be left alone, and there was chaos in a neighborhood with people trying to kill him with a shovel instead of just heading him away from the house. Our suburban DC area community in VA has lots of natural areas, woods, ponds and little lakes, and sometimes I feel like asking why the heck people moved here if they want pristine. The entire community is a Natural Wildlife Federation certified wildlife habitat due to enough home and business owners and the homeowner’s association getting certified (we did).

And yes, we catch spiders and put them outside using our highly sophisticated spider catching kit: a large plastic glass and thin piece of cardboard.

I would not call an exterminator or freak out and I’ll not say what I think about people who would default to killing an animal that’s doing no harm.

This ^^

I love lizards! We have tons of them in our garden. I love to sit and watch them doing push-ups in the sun. They aren't afraid of us at. They will crawl right up on my shoe or follow me around. We don't have any bug problems in the garden as those little suckers police the entire back yard. For a while I thought that I must have mice as I was finding mouse turds on the patio. Turns out it is lizard turds. For little bitty critters they sure do poop big.

My YDS would try and catch it and wear it as an earring. Or he did when he was 8.

It wouldn't be a big thing to us. DH is a FL native and is used to them. We lived there for 5 yrs and now have them here at our house. As a matter of fact, just saw one of ours Monday afternoon. All outside though. We have 3 pups inside, I would hope the lizards would be smarter than to come inside.

Me too. When I was a kid pet stores sold them as chameleons, though they’re anoles. At least they looked just the same. I had one who liked his neck/throat scratched like for dogs and cats. And he’d nap on my hand because of the warmth. He got a growth over an eye and my father took him to our veterinarian, exclaiming that he couldn’t believe he was taking a 79 cent lizard to the vet. 

Yes, sometimes.  We mostly see them on the plants that are sitting on the porch, on the outdoor window sills and they LOVE to get under the cushions on the porch and porch swings...before anyone sits down, we always lift up the cushions so the lizards can scurry away.

ooh, how cute!  (that would probably be my reaction)

The only thing I’d think is I hope I could catch it and get it back outside. But I’m the person who feels awful if the wasp I’m trying to get out of the house gets hurt

My son went through a lizard stage when he was young and he had one of these as a pet in a big glass aquarium.  If I found one of these in my home now, I would pick it up and put it outside.  I do have tons of lizards in my yard.  I did have one find its way into the family room once.  I just cornered it, picked it up, and put it back outside.  I really like lizards.  They control the bugs and spiders.  I can't walk from my front door to my car without seeing at least two or three running across my path.  There is one doing pushups on the top of the brickwork on my planter right this minute.

I would open the doors and try corral it outside. And hope the pup doesn't see the poor thing because she goes after them in the yard and occasionally gets lucky.

I only call pest control for termites who are trying to eat my house.

Never read my local NextDoor pages.  There is post after post after post about various harmless snakes, insects, reptiles, foxes, vultures, etc., and the responses always contain a hefty dose of “kill it!!!!!!” or “call an exterminator!” I hate it. 

librarylady, I’d love to find one of those - inside or outside my house. We have tons of blue-tailed skinks here. I love seeing them this time of year. I’ve never had one in the house, but certainly wouldn’t panic if I did. 

We have 500,000 European wall lizards. I love them! The snakes are cute too!