i caught a small anole in my back yard and its not eating the small crickets i bought him HELP?

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heres a website that explains proper care for anoles, If you care for him right he should live, I successfully kept a bunch of wild anoles when I was like 8 or 9 but I suggest leaving him alone for awhile to get used to his new enviorment and while you're letting him get adjusted read through the care for him and go out and buy the things he needs if you don't already have them, Good luck!

http://www.kingsnake.com/anolecare/.

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Aww! Let him go!

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Leave him be. He's not a pet.

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let the thing go before you kill it. go buy something if you have to have something. they do not make good pets and stress over everything. they are for looking at and should not be touched at all, it stresses them to much. punch the name on the web and you will see that he will die if you do not let him go. they are the worst pet ever.

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It won't eat them since its shocked by being brought into captivity.

It'll die if you don't let it go.

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They are stress easily. Leave it alone and stop watching it. Also give it places to hide. Warm lizards (as in use a heat lamp) are more active.

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The two that my kids had couldn't eat the crickets bought at the pet store because they were too big. We had to catch small bugs from the yard. We kept our anoles for an entire summer but finally let them go because I got tired of catching bugs. They never would eat the bought crickets although they finally got to a point that they tried. The bought crickets were too aggressive.

Try catching smaller wild crickets. They can be encouraged to raise in your yard by putting straw or grass clippings in a pile. You can also try any other small insect. Grasshoppers worked well for us. Good luck but please remember that the longer you keep the lizard in captivity the less chance of survival it has when released. They forget to fear humans and animals!

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You'll definitely need a heat lamp and maybe some small warms and grubs. Don't forget the water! A friend of mine is an animal expert and even she wasn't able to keep a baby anole alive. So it won't be easy. She had it for about 3 weeks and then it died. Look up info on Internet sites. Or ask a pet store. Sorry I can't be more of a help!

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If you were outside, and some large creature picked you up, took you out of your home and placed you in a small room.would you feel hungry? Let him go and he'll eat for himself.

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It is never a good idea to bring in animals from the wild unless they are injured. And even if that's the case, the goal should be to get them better and release them.

Take some pictures of your little anole (didn't know what that was until I read the other responses) and write an account of how you found/caught him and then put it in your scrapbook.

There are tons of reptiles raised in captivity that are unwanted and cannot be released into the wild.get one of those. It's the right thing to do and I think you will be glad you released the wild one and got one that no one else wanted.

Some quick Internet research will probably give you ideas on how to set up a lizard-friendly environment in your backyard and hopefully that will attract some wild ones that you might glimpse on occasion. But let them alone and go get one that has already been raised in captivity. Good luck.

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put him back in the back yard.