Hades ate a lizard

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I'm in southern Arizona and we must have had a recent hatching of lizards because two have been found in my bathroom. First one, I found. Second one, Hades ate. He's so proud of himself, but I can't help but be a bit worried. The lizards are everywhere and I'll wager the outdoor kitties eat them by the buttload, and Hades may have eaten them as a kitten before he was rescued from the scary outdoors, but should I watch him for anything? I have a pic of a similar lizard that I caught a few days ago and released outdoors.
 

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Mine eat lizards, grasshoppers, and probably more all the time. Although most of the time I think they just play with them and bring us the bodies. The only time you have to worry is if you put out poison for pest control and then it would be if the munchie your cat gets was exposed to it enough to kill them. Because I have a free range turtle and parakeets in my backyard too we don't use any type of pesticide (well occasional wasp and ant but both are rare and the cats won't be munching on ants or wasps) at our house and most of our neighbors don't either. 
 

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The outdoor ladies will kill them and leave them laying all over the porch, but don't eat them.  If it's a skink, their tail will snap off as a defense mechanism...I find a lot of them without a tail!  It's always those little blue-tailed skinks.  They do the same with frogs, but if they put a frog in their mouth they drool like crazy, it is so gross!  Slobber like a dog!  I don't seem to catch them doing that anymore, guess they learned not to lick the frogs!

I remember having one outdoor tom years ago that would eat lizards...actually anything he could catch.  It never hurt him, but then again, my dad never put out poison, that was what the cats were for.
 
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He seems to be fine. I guess it was just a yummy (eww) treat.
 

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Those gray ones must be AWESOME!!     They get stalked and gobbled up any time one pushes it's luck.

Now, the pretty colored, striped lizards?  Those get played with.  If they eat one, they throw up soon after.  Lesson learned here, out cats no longer eat the pretty lizards. 
Gray ones?  They won't hesitate.
 
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