So I let my cat in the yard for a few and she hunts lizards...I saw something...
Now and then she finds one, and brings it in. Most cats would deliver it to the human, but my cat isn't into sharing her spoils.
At any rate, I've saved every one of the lizards she's brought in, taking them back outside and praising her for her prowess.
She stays in the front and side yard and I'll wander back inside to play on the net for a few in between going out and checking to make sure she is where she is supposed to be, and she always is.
A few days ago I went out a couple of minutes after letting her out to check on her, and there was something in my driveway. It was tiny and black. Looked like possibly what I'd imagine a baby worm to look like, except it was tapered on one end to a point, like a tail. And it was gyrating. Like a detached portion of a tail, gyrating on its own.
Freaked me out. It was some abomination. It was disturbing. Something moving that clearly should not be moving.
I had her come in quickly (she comes running when I call) and when I went back out later it was gone.
I'm assuming it was a portion of a lizard's tail that for some reason, after being separated, kept moving.
Whatever it was, and I'm so sorry for that lizard, I'm very watchful of my cat outside now, it really freaked me out. Like something out of a horror movie.
So there's a story, eh?
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I believe that it's pretty common for lizards to lose their tails in this fashion. They just grow a new one...
And I suspect that the detached tail will twitch a while after being detached.
Not to worry!
It's their escape hatch!
I miss your running cat...
If the lizard is about six inches tall, green, speaks English with a lower-middle class British accent, and is EXTREMELY ANNOYING, for the good of all humanity, please let the cat finish it off.
Down the hatch, eh mate?
