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Step 1
Watch what your indoor pets bring into the house. Dogs and cats may kill lizards and bring them in the home to eat later. Sometimes the lizards are only stunned and hide in your house to recover.
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Step 2
Clean up outside hiding places. Keeping the grass mowed and trimming tall shrubs near the house can cut off the lizards insect supply. Move wood piles and other items in the yard to a shed to force lizards into finding a new home.
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Step 3
Make home repairs. Lizards can squeeze through spaces as small as 1/4 inch. Inspect the outside of your house for any cracks or potential entrance points. Repair openings around windows and doors. Use steel wool, caulking or other sealants since reptiles are unable to eat through it.
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Step 4
Remove lizards from your house. After you've spotted a lizard in your home, corner it. Cover the lizard with a pot and slide a piece of stiff cardboard underneath the pot to trap the lizard. Carry the trap outside holding the bottom with one hand and balancing the pot with the other and release the lizard.
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Step 5
Control other pests in the home. Common sightings of lizards in the home indicate a food source is attracting them. Eradicate crickets, cockroaches, spiders other and insects in the home.
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Step 6
Get a natural predator. Dogs and cats can deter lizards from coming indoors. Bird feeders near the house may chase lizards away.
