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The cat just proudly walked in through the back door with a gecko hanging out of his mouth. For the last week or two he's been leaving us geckos and crickets every day, but this was the first time I saw him actually bring one in.
He spat it out under the dining room table and the most amazing thing happened -- the gecko dropped its tail. I knew they did that, but I didn't know how it worked: the tail starts writhing around in a perfectly cat-entrancing way, while the gecko proper shoots off out of sight, in this case behind Justin. Oliver was entirely unaware of Justin catching the gecko and taking it outside... he was happy as could be, batting a lizard tail around the living room.
I'm torn between thinking that this is a breathtaking adaptation and thinking that it's a really dumb one. Maybe the cat wouldn't catch so many geckos in the first place if they didn't come with built-in cat toys!
He spat it out under the dining room table and the most amazing thing happened -- the gecko dropped its tail. I knew they did that, but I didn't know how it worked: the tail starts writhing around in a perfectly cat-entrancing way, while the gecko proper shoots off out of sight, in this case behind Justin. Oliver was entirely unaware of Justin catching the gecko and taking it outside... he was happy as could be, batting a lizard tail around the living room.
I'm torn between thinking that this is a breathtaking adaptation and thinking that it's a really dumb one. Maybe the cat wouldn't catch so many geckos in the first place if they didn't come with built-in cat toys!
