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Lizarb? I gots no lizarb.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Hildur:



Tabbies are very good hunters. Mice and bugs avoid our house.

This cat is a natural born killer. Lizard didn't even make it 2 feet past the front door before she chased it down and snagged it within 90 seconds. Hiding behind the storage bins didn't help the little guy at all.

There's a never ending supply of those Geico sales lizards in Puerto Rico. When I lived there, they used to hang around our windows and keep the house insect free.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
There's a never ending supply of those Geico sales lizards in Puerto Rico. When I lived there, they used to hang around our windows and keep the house insect free.

During any given walk around the property there are probably 4-5 running around and I'm not trying to find any. I probably get 2-3 in my house every week. They mostly hang out and either find a way out or become a dried out carcass.

^^^^Omg too cute!

I think your cat needs to be reset.

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Thuuuuuumbs.

A sad day for the ensigmatic household We had to return this guy



to the cat rescue this morning.

I took an instant like to him--which is why, while we didn't really need a fourth cat, we tried to adopt him.

But he turned out to be an alpha male and we already had an alpha male. We were still trying to make it work when he started marking territory. That would have led to at least the other alpha probably doing the same. Not good.

Coupled with the fact that even the most laid-back of our existing cats didn't like him, we finally had to admit to ourselves it just wasn't going to work.

We sure hope he finds a good forever home. He's a really sweet kitty. Super affectionate. Smart as a whip.

We've had challenging adoptions, but, always managed to make it work with time and patience. This was our first failure in twenty-five years.

It was really difficult to say goodbye to him and walk away. Briefly had the impulse to say "No! We have to try again," and take him back home with us. But, I knew in my heart it was just never going to work.

ETA: There's one bright spot to this story:



The orange and white cat at the top is the alpha. The one to the left is the laid-back cat. The one on the right, the tuxedo, is our previous adoptee.

The alpha and the tuxedo had reached a kind of "armed truce" state. The tuxedo wasn't interested in being the alpha male, but, he wasn't going to let the big orange bully push him around, either. Thus the two of them tended to be wary of one another.

Two weeks ago we would never have witnessed the scene above.

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