Last night I'm sitting here watching TV. It's getting late and the two
furballs are prowling around looking to terrorize something. All of a
sudden I hear this huge commotion down the stairs by my front door. In
my apt. you come into the front door on the ground level and walk up the
stairs inside the apt.
Since I just caught a guy trying to break into my apt 2 nights ago (how
stupid do you have to be to break into a police officer's home)I go
investigate. What do I find but a grey tabby jumping up and down
pouncing straight up and down like a pogo stick. She then takes a final
pounce and it appears that she has caught something. She then looks up
at me with a very puzzled look on her fuzzy face and meows "Daddy! What
the heck happened?" I notice that she has what looks like a very small
yellow tail sticking out of her mouth. In the corner close to her I see
a small yellow gecko without a tail. I swear he has a smile on his
little face and he's giving my cat the "bird". Poor Mouse dropped the
tail and sulked up the stairs and went to bed. She hasn't wandered down
those stairs again. I guess it didn't help that I was almost falling
over laughing at her.

Note: Here in N. Texas we have small yellowish geckos. As a defense
mechanism they will lose their tails so they can run away. The tail will
grow back. Well this is the first time Mouse has ever seen a gecko. I
think she's still trying to figure it out. She's on the window sill
rubbing her chin saying "Hmmmm".

 Bob