A Lizard's Tale

Sorry for the cheesy title. I mean we see this everywhere these days. But if the shoe fits...

Memorial day weekend was memorable for me because I had another exciting prey capture experience. At my age, these things do not happen that often. Here we go....

So my Friend is kind enough (when she is home) to keep the back door open so we (myself and the Other Cat) can go out and bask upon the perfectly heated concrete. Another positive feature of this action is that the alien buffoon prefers to remain inside so essentially the out of doors is mine and the Other Cat's oyster. So to speak.

A few days ago The Other Cat and myself captured a shiny gray and green lizard. Now many of you vision specialists out there may not know that cats can see some color, but we can! And green and yellow are what we can see. As a team, we brought the beast in the house to show our Friend our bounty, which would of course please her. I mean a fresh lizard would please anyone!

So we let it go so it can run around and we can play with it before we kill it for our Friend. It hid under the ottoman. It ran under the side table. It ran under the sofa and attempted to escape from behind the sofa when I karate chopped its tail right off! The tail, in an excited frenzy, leaped into the air and wiggled around in a most fascinating manner! I couldn't keep my eyes off of it. I was mesmerized by its friskiness and it smelled like fresh lizard! Fantastic!

Then my Friend descended upon me and the leaping tail with great distress and shooed me away. Scooped up the tail and put it in the trash can!!! The horror! The waste of a fresh tail!

I skulked away.

Later, I came back to the main room to "do in" the remainder of the lizard. So I crept under the couch where I had spied the lizard when I had left previously. It was there breathing, next to the wall. No tail. But there was quite a bit of lizard left. I am sure my Friend would be pleased with this large bounty.

I tried to go in for the lizard and then all of a sudden the entire couch was thrown back and my Friend once again intervened in my attempt to do my duty as house predator. I was perplexed! Again I was shooed away and the lizard was then gone. I don't know what she did with it. Maybe she wanted to kill it herself. Which I can understand.

But can't she give this old cat his due?

I hope the lizard tasted good. I will have to ask her.....