Little guy stealing butter

by Meg on August 3, 2007

Reptiles… [shaking head] Always stealing dairy products.

CAUGHT WEB-HANDED! [groan]

Butteres

Scott F., good job catching this guy. I hope you had a tiny pair o’ handcuffs with which to apprehend heem!

{ 98 comments }

1 Christina 08.03.07 at 6:49 pm

Oh my gosh he’s so tiny!

*melts* (like butter)

2 Christina 08.03.07 at 6:51 pm

Oh, and this little guy reminds me of the tiny lizards I wake up to sitting on my walls in the morning whenever I’m in Puerto Rico visiting family.

3 Deckard Canine 08.03.07 at 6:52 pm

Whassamatta, car insurance not as profitable as it looks?

4 jen 08.03.07 at 6:54 pm

“web handed”! groan indeed, lol.

he’s cute. i can hear mini slurpy sounds from here.

5 CuteBabyFix.com 08.03.07 at 6:54 pm

He is archnemesis of the butterduck! Someone with more time on their hands! Post the appropriate linkies!Kthxbai.

6 Theo 08.03.07 at 6:55 pm

OK, this is cute and all, nicely captured, well captioned…
…but I *really* like that tabletop. WANT.

7 Mello 08.03.07 at 6:55 pm

Someone needs to hit the other end of that knife ASAP.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

8 Theo 08.03.07 at 6:56 pm

CBF — here ’tis
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2007/01/wine_just_came_.html
(took me no time at all)

9 Christina 08.03.07 at 6:56 pm

Hehe, Mello.

10 mariser 08.03.07 at 6:58 pm

look more like a floor than a tabletop.
I’m trying to figure out what is up there on the top right (cut-off at the edge of the picture)

11 Alice Shortcake 08.03.07 at 7:00 pm

It could have been so much worse – he could have stolen that GINORMOUS knife…

12 Khadija 08.03.07 at 7:02 pm

lil mister

13 Redzilla 08.03.07 at 7:07 pm

I t’ink he’s slurpin’ mango marmalade.

14 R. Moore 08.03.07 at 7:19 pm

He he he, I love little geckos and newts. They wittle handsies are soo cute!

15 NotSupposedToBeDoingThisAtWork 08.03.07 at 7:25 pm

o. m. g.

i know i’ve said it before, but this is most definitely the cutest thing i ever did see.

too bad no C.O.X.C.U….

mariser… table = coffee bean? floor = chair leg?

16 Robert 08.03.07 at 7:25 pm

I thought this was a Geico commercial!!

17 shohom67 08.03.07 at 7:25 pm

ROFL!

Little pair of handcuffs!

Very funny stuff

18 Catman Dude =^-.-^= 08.03.07 at 7:36 pm

I hope it’s not pasteurized butter. Raw butter from raw milk is healthier!

19 Pheas 08.03.07 at 7:38 pm

Hey, if GEICO and AFLAC merge, he and butter duck could work together!

20 Snowpea 08.03.07 at 7:38 pm

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! That made me burst out in laughter. What a bold little thing. :-)

21 SP 08.03.07 at 7:40 pm

HAHAHAH!!!!! Thats at once the funniest and cutest thing posted to this site in a long time.

22 hibousoir@yahoo.com 08.03.07 at 7:46 pm

He’s not eating butter! He’s taking the knife! “Spray ME with pesticides, will you?!” he mutters. “We’ll see what happens to YOU when you least expect me–I mean, uh, ‘it’”!

23 Tarah711 08.03.07 at 7:54 pm

Geico….i mean…gecko!

24 mariser 08.03.07 at 7:54 pm

NStBDtaW, I think you are right, it is a coffee bean. thanks! sadly not a chocolate covered one…

but the more I look at the picture the more I’m afraid for the li’l fellow. knife looks SHARP

25 Golden 08.03.07 at 7:55 pm

That is FANTASTIC! Please peeps.. C.O.X.C.U Please!!!!!!

26 Jas 08.03.07 at 8:04 pm

hehehe. such a cute lil critter. i have an iguana thats like….100 times his size. look at the tailio! it perfectly munchable!

27 Jas 08.03.07 at 8:08 pm

Anotther thing: I pledge a new rule! anything smaller than your middle finger also needs a C.O.X.C.U. All in favor say aye!

28 Catherine 08.03.07 at 8:08 pm

What does C.O.X.C.U mean, pleeeze?

29 Aubrey 08.03.07 at 8:09 pm

What IS this little guy, exactly? And wouldn’t he need a pair of salam-hander cuffs?

30 Hazel 08.03.07 at 8:15 pm

COXCU = Cute Overload Extreme Close Up!

Cuter than an extremely cute thing…..

31 Catherine 08.03.07 at 8:21 pm

Thanx so much Hazel.

32 elliottsmommy 08.03.07 at 8:22 pm

did anyone else notice that the weetle weezard is executing a perfect plie’ squat?

33 Leilani 08.03.07 at 8:24 pm

GAH! Teenio leezerdo!

34 wendy 08.03.07 at 8:32 pm

My bunny does this with peanut butter.

Then goes nom nom nom *pause* nom nom *pause*….cuz it’s stuck to the roof of her mouth.

35 acelightning 08.03.07 at 8:34 pm

Mariser – that knife doesn’t look particularly sharp to me. It looks like a regular table knife, which someone has used to butter their toast; you can see the toast crumbs on both plate and knife. Come to think of it, maybe the little micro-lizard is going for the toast crumbs, not the butter…

36 Cassandra 08.03.07 at 8:36 pm

He looks like a teeny little dinosaur! Could we call him Dinosaur Jr.? (hee!) I bet if you get reaaaaally close you can hear him go “Rawr!”

37 Shannon Johnson 08.03.07 at 8:53 pm

Slurp, slurp, slurp. YUM YUM YUM

38 NotSupposedToBeDoingThisAtWork 08.03.07 at 9:06 pm

mmm…. chocolate covered coffee bean…

39 Theresa 08.03.07 at 9:10 pm

The butter is for sautee-ing his lunch of mosquitos. ;)

40 Moggyfan 08.03.07 at 9:15 pm

Rule #14!

41 Aubrey 08.03.07 at 9:32 pm

Theresa, I think he’d be cooking them over a mesquite-o grill.

42 Theo 08.03.07 at 9:45 pm

Aubrey, I’d say “that sucked” but then you’d say “bite me” and I’d have to say “buzz off” and then you’d swat me and I’m exhausted already. (Drained, even.)

43 Cheryl 08.03.07 at 9:55 pm

(In mini-Crocodile Dundee voice) Now THAT’S a knoife!!

44 Aubrey 08.03.07 at 9:56 pm

Oh, T. – all I’d say is that your enthusiasm is bloody infect-ious but also that work calls and you should get Bac(to your rou-)tine.

45 Theresa 08.03.07 at 10:04 pm

Oh that stings!

46 Michelle 08.03.07 at 10:27 pm

Great. They’re itching to get into another verbal face-Off! They’re only scratching the surface now… but they’ll be netting some knee-slappers soon.

47 Aubrey 08.03.07 at 10:31 pm

Welt, that just swell. Another fine s-itch-uation we’ve got ourselves into.

48 Noelegy 08.03.07 at 10:47 pm

Reminds me of the GEICO commercial where the lizard says they’ll bring you an English muffin. :)

49 Happy LOL Day 08.03.07 at 11:03 pm

LOL lookit his lil tail being used for balance AWWW!!
:)
http://www.theworldaround.us

50 Yitzysmommie 08.03.07 at 11:17 pm

Peeps, I am speechless and in awe at the advanced punnage here.
YM, bowing to Aubrey, Teho, Theresa and Michelle.

51 rod 08.03.07 at 11:34 pm

That looks dangerous!

52 redbone 08.04.07 at 12:14 am

And in his tiny lizard mind, he thinks the humans are hiding because he’s obviously a modern-day dinosaur.

Can’t you hear the teeny GRRR! *stomp stomp stomp*
~licks buttery knife~

53 TAJ 08.04.07 at 12:32 am

So where’s our Reality Casual Friday? ;)

54 lurkertype 08.04.07 at 1:39 am

TAJ, we’ve got a plie-performing gecklette leeckingk butter from a knife! Who needs anything more RCF?

55 A 08.04.07 at 1:48 am

and now we know what the geico lizard survives on.

56 LJ 08.04.07 at 1:58 am

that looks more like jam on the knife than butter.

i lof his little legs.

57 Lerrinus 08.04.07 at 2:00 am

*is buried under a b-lizard of puns*
;P

58 Leah B. 08.04.07 at 2:16 am

I love the bottom leg spread their little dino, that is to cute I have to admit all of you peeps got me laughing to the floor over here (ploomp) thanks I need the post and the tooooo funny responses tonight

59 Theresa 08.04.07 at 2:33 am

Time now for my gecko story. My Dad lives in South Florida where they run rampant.

I found a teeny-tiny one in Dad’s living room– even smaller than Mr. McButterLickersons here. I picked him up to put him out on the patio, and he bit me. And I couldn’t even feel the bite.

I felt bad for the tiny feller being manhandled by a humongous monster like me, so as I took him out, I said “Wow, you are one scary dude. I’m not messing with you.” I let him go, and washed my hands thoroughly (they can carry salmonella), and I’m still here to tell the tale.

60 Joha 08.04.07 at 2:49 am

Baby Krishna leezard!

61 Furbabies 08.04.07 at 2:54 am

Absolutely, positively the most adorable leezard evar.

62 Leah B. 08.04.07 at 3:58 am

you disturb my butter snack you get tail-swapps

63 Dale 08.04.07 at 4:02 am

He´s just snaking up when nobody´s looking, saying ¨I guanna taste!¨

64 al 08.04.07 at 5:09 am

is that a gecko who is a pest? i mean, is this like if a mouse came up to my plate at home? not a pet that is? because that’s kind os awesome.

65 Subhangi 08.04.07 at 5:34 am

Oh noes! First mice and now geckos! I must saaaave my kit-chon!

Cute lil’ dewd.

66 Ozz 08.04.07 at 7:33 am

haha love it

67 Julia 08.04.07 at 9:34 am

Can I get a Rule #14? Amen!

68 Patty P 08.04.07 at 10:05 am

Oh da cayutness, sigh! We call these guys “night lizards” in my house although they are probably geckos. They live outside (until they sneaks in, tricksy little critters). They hang out near the porch lights, eating bugs at night and even manage to make nests and lay eggs behind where the lights are mounted. Seeing them eating human food is a first for me.

69 Staticgirl 08.04.07 at 10:59 am

aww bless, he so tiny….

70 Jesse 08.04.07 at 12:46 pm

So cute you could eat him up, but don’t. Did you know they’re known to carry salmonella? No joke. Their cuteness is just a ploy (the geckos’ cuteness, not the salmonella’s.)

71 P. Erasmus 08.04.07 at 12:54 pm
72 Khadija 08.04.07 at 2:08 pm

when i was little (like a day ago or so) i thought that salmonella was the female salmon.

73 Theo 08.04.07 at 2:58 pm

Khadija — that’s excellent… how about “Vendetta”?
http://www.makingfiends.com/fiend01.htm

74 Khadija 08.04.07 at 3:17 pm

hehe :) i lurve it!!

that hamster CAN cut paper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lw9DmOD8N0

AND cardboard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT50nOHx3Ks

and no wonder the hamster doesn’t like singing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhDEpMXY6Oo

75 Annie 08.04.07 at 3:38 pm

Sal mander over and eat your butter. Knife got it no need to get up!

76 pyrit 08.04.07 at 5:36 pm

Gecko! (gecko, ..gecko, …gecko)

77 childfree 08.04.07 at 6:44 pm

sorry to get off track here people, but quit sending in photos of your babies that go on the cutetracker..not everyone thinks your wittle precious is as cute as you do~

78 Khadija 08.04.07 at 7:01 pm

i also don’t find you as cute as you do.

79 Annie 08.04.07 at 11:09 pm

Hmmmm I think it is time for some english muffins with butter and blackberry jam..

80 childfree 08.04.07 at 11:35 pm

you’re quite the clever one, Khadija~

81 Theo 08.04.07 at 11:39 pm

Comment squabblers will be *eaten*.
You have been warned.
Nom nom nom.

82 Des 08.05.07 at 1:57 am

I think we need a Cute Overload Extreme Close up!

83 Norty 08.05.07 at 3:47 am

teho, fiends is my favorite!

84 woohoo! 08.05.07 at 4:29 am

Are doze leedle claws on doze leedle feets?

85 the_becca 08.05.07 at 4:48 am

“You want an english muffin? They literally hand you an english muffin, with butter and jam.”

86 the_becca 08.05.07 at 4:50 am

Al — We used to get geckos in the house I grew up in in New Orleans all the time. I was the Official Gecko Catcher, which consisted of running around giggling and trying to gently scoop them up and put them outside in the garden (which I was generally successful at).

87 Theo 08.05.07 at 2:01 pm

They’re all over Florida too.

88 Annie 08.05.07 at 5:34 pm

I like the giggling part.. too funny the becca!:D

89 Marek 08.05.07 at 5:38 pm

Gecko has carbon-fiber legs ;-)

90 Annie 08.05.07 at 5:39 pm

Hey Teho Thanks by the way ;)

91 Marie 08.06.07 at 1:00 am

I can’t stop enjoying this photo! I sure hope he (she?) comes back again and again. Maybe he’ll get some jam and bread next time. Keep us posted!

92 SeaBreeze 08.06.07 at 3:43 am

This itsy-witsy-teensy-weensy little guy is truly unfor-geck-able. He’s really buttered me up for sure!

93 The Honourable Gladys Anstruther 08.06.07 at 6:07 am

Gecko.When I grow into a Dragon I’ll have all the butter I want.

94 Moneca 08.06.07 at 7:21 am

Sous chef of Ratatouille!

95 CuteBabyFix.com 08.06.07 at 1:51 pm

Gosh childfree, I’m sorry I was not here to provide my valuable service, which is to prove that yes indeedy babies are actually very cute, even tho they are not furry.
They even follow the rules of cuteness- very law abiding. Check out this girly, nicely following rule 14:
http://cutebabyfix.com/2007/07/30/houston-we-have-a-problem/

96 ThreeCatNight 08.06.07 at 7:28 pm

“Oooh…tasty!”

97 Angela P. 08.06.07 at 9:18 pm

He’s not really stealing butter. He’s about to execute some cool ninja moves off the edge of the knife. Look out!

(okay, even i realize that was kind of dumb – sorry.)

98 Jackie 08.21.07 at 3:51 am

THAT”S ANERABLE!!!

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