Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 27, 2015

Janis isn’t going to like her “gift”.

If Luddy eats it, that would be very bad news.

Cute. But cats should be indoors/belled/controlled. With luck the skink will win!“Scientists believe feral cats have been involved in 28 of Australia’s 29 known native mammal extinctions in the past 200 years.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11743499/Australia-declares-war-on-feral-cats-with-plan-to-cull-two-million-by-2020.html

(just rattling a few chains)

My little kitty is the master gecko murderer, the poor little guys don’t stand a chance. I find body parts all over the house. Not pretty.

Not sure I want to know where this is going unless it is to warn the fatal dangers of a blue tailed skink to a cat.

Ask the Audubon Society what the effect “Luddy’s” have on the song bird population. Sorry Luddy, you need to keep your furry little butt in the house.

Yes they do.

We have four dogs, but it is the smaller of the two cats that is most likely to take care of the reptiles. Fortunately no big reptiles here. I do worry about our neighborhood hawk.

Nice of J. J. to put in a note for the colorist.

Personally, my cat was two inches away from a bird sitting right in front of her and she was more interested in the grass to the side of her..

We have a cat that has a neurological neck problem most probably due to run in with a Blue Tail..

Hope you don’t have rattle snakes down there….

I think that skink was visiting my mother’s hedge when I visited two weeks ago. Beautiful!

In the next one, he’s gotta be high. Those things are psychotropic and can actually put a cat into a coma from which it never awakens.

(Even though there are several outside our home, eating up the possum’s food.)

The Bewick’s wren, a tiny bird with an incredible voice and list of songs, is extinct on the East Coast and Midwest mostly due to housecats—they like to nest in bushes around homes and are very people-friendly.

Gee, Bucky Katt was having trouble with the scale of his blue-tailed lizard (aka “Ice Dragon”) in yesterday’s “Get Fuzzy.”

Hammie, my tiny terrorist, brought me 3/4 of a skink last week, and yesterday morning I found a chipmunk doing the Big Sleep on my welcome mat.

Try that again without Android correcting:..@Downundergirl“Cute. But cats should be indoors/belled/controlled. ".Cats shouldn’t be inside, stinking up the place.Cats shouldn’t be outside eating up the skinks and grasshoppers and birds and bugs and…Cats shouldn’t be.(Even though there are several outside our home, eating up the possum’s food.)

@DavidHuieGreen“it’s odd that so much time is spent talking about spaying and neutering dogs, and so little on doing so to the real menace: cats!”.Whereas dogs are not a real problem.A friend mentioned we’d be up to our rumps in dogs were it not for cars.(He didn’t actually say “rumps” but I forget his terminology.)

While it seems cruel to us, it’s all part of evolution…

I recall my daughter announcing the discovery of a big blue worm in the grass, decades ago. (She had been taught not to bother the wildlife.)

Reminds me of an incident between my mom and our cat, cleverly named Cat. Mom was sweeping the front porch one day when Cat brought a little rabbit up from the woods. Mom turned the broom over and swatted Cat on the head. Cat, surprised, dropped the little bunny on the cold concrete porch. Bunny remained motionless for a second as if realizing its situation; then it took off for the woods. Cat never brought any “presents” home again.

Skinks can make cats very ill! We have these beautiful skinks around our home. Many cat owners in our area avoid allowing their cats outdoors so they aren’t eaten by coyotes, killed by bears or panthers or by snakes. Cats DO kill and injure other small animals including birds.

The “Keep those cats Indoors” rhetoric disappears when the Plague of Mice arrives..Then, it becomes Let Cats Do The Job. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1999-10-13/news/9910130180_1_domestic-cat-mice-poison

“None of the names have been changed because no one was innocent.”

A thought occurred to me after seeing the complaints about the Cats eating up all the Songbirds..Shouldn’t we be assigning the Major part of the blame to the people who put out lots of Birdseed and Lured all the birds into the Cats’ Hunting Territory?.It’s like the people who buy a house right next to the Airport, then complain about all the Planes that keep flying over. …You Knew that Cats eat Birds, yet you Baited the birds to come down where the Cats can catch them.