Lena’s First Kill
Well… almost. We think the lizard ran away, but it did lose its tail. Lena had been outside since shortly after 6 pm, enjoying the outdoors with me and waiting for a lizard to come her way. She did chase one earlier, but it got away before she could even get close. As it got darker, Tim and I decided to have some dinner and a bottle of wine out in the backyard since it had cooled off and it was such a nice evening. Lena stayed outdoors with us, and I forgot about the lizards since Lena seemed happy to sit in the corner of the yard near some plants.
A short while ago I saw her crouching and thought she might be going after a moth since she’d chased one earlier as well. I didn’t do anything about it until I realized that she’d caught something bigger. Tim went after her to release the lizard, but I thought the lizard might be injured enough that it would be better for Lena to finish it off. Tim said the lizard had just lost its tail and got Lena to let go of it. He saw it on the edge of the concrete but I didn’t get to see it. Lena was very interested in the twitching tail and I was inclined to let her eat it, but then Tim pointed out that it might not be very good for her to do so. After all, she’s used to a diet of dry cat food and who knows where this lizard had been.
That’s when we thought we’d move back inside since we were done with our food and drink and we wanted to get Lena away from the lizard tail. She was not happy! She made it known to me that she didn’t want to come inside and made a variety of angry noises at me. When I closed the sliding door leaving her inside, she sat by the door while I gathered the things we had outside. I then had to get Tim to move her aside so I could get back inside with all the stuff without needing to retrieve Lena from the backyard again.
Lena seems to have gotten new energy from her close encounter with the lizard. Just now she ran from the back up to the living room. Probably once I get off the computer she will want to play with her string or her toy mice. Maybe I should get her a toy lizard.
A short while ago I saw her crouching and thought she might be going after a moth since she’d chased one earlier as well. I didn’t do anything about it until I realized that she’d caught something bigger. Tim went after her to release the lizard, but I thought the lizard might be injured enough that it would be better for Lena to finish it off. Tim said the lizard had just lost its tail and got Lena to let go of it. He saw it on the edge of the concrete but I didn’t get to see it. Lena was very interested in the twitching tail and I was inclined to let her eat it, but then Tim pointed out that it might not be very good for her to do so. After all, she’s used to a diet of dry cat food and who knows where this lizard had been.
That’s when we thought we’d move back inside since we were done with our food and drink and we wanted to get Lena away from the lizard tail. She was not happy! She made it known to me that she didn’t want to come inside and made a variety of angry noises at me. When I closed the sliding door leaving her inside, she sat by the door while I gathered the things we had outside. I then had to get Tim to move her aside so I could get back inside with all the stuff without needing to retrieve Lena from the backyard again.
Lena seems to have gotten new energy from her close encounter with the lizard. Just now she ran from the back up to the living room. Probably once I get off the computer she will want to play with her string or her toy mice. Maybe I should get her a toy lizard.
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