Any Lizard specialists here? Identify this mystery thing...

[Haighermeister]

Recently by cat has given up on Voles and Mice and has started bringing these things in...



Just over an inch long (this one has no tail but they normally do) and obviously some kind of lizard creature.

I live in cornwall, I never realised we had any wild lizard population!

Any ideas what it is??

[FunkyNige]

Think that's a Common Newt

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/wildlifegarden/ato...

[Haighermeister]

Oh.



Well that's not nearly as interesting as I hoped. The cat will have to try harder!

[bexVN]

They are a protected species though. Newts are great

[Heathwood]

Aren't cats lovely!

[edc]

I was just about to post the same!! My cat has brought in about 4 of these or rather 2 whole ones 1 with no tail and just a tail that still wriggled! The whole ones are coming in at 3 to 4 inches.

[Haighermeister]

bexVN said:

They are a protected species though. Newts are great

I've had a word and she's promised to stick to Voles.

[bexVN]

Haighermeister said:

bexVN said:

They are a protected species though. Newts are great

I've had a word and she's promised to stick to Voles.

I'm sure she'll listen! I'm so glad my cats only ever seem to catch mice, and not too many of these either!

[Haighermeister]

bexVN said:

I'm sure she'll listen! I'm so glad my cats only ever seem to catch mice, and not too many of these either!

She's never been like this before, only since we moved to the countryside! The wifes old cat used to catch and eat rabbits...

[Sam_68]

FunkyNige said:

Think that's a Common Newt

Definitely not a newt. Its got scales, which makes it a lizard.

[Haighermeister]

Sam_68 said:

Definitely not a newt. Its got scales, which makes it a lizard.

It does have scales yes.

[tonyvid]

I can't see the pic but the UK does have a suprising amount of common lizards in the right sort of habitat. If you have good heathland there can be loads if they are not disturbed...or scoffed by the local cats!

[otolith]

Looks like a common lizard to me;



http://www.herpetofauna.co.uk/common_lizard.htm

[Haighermeister]

That looks a lot larger than my one. Lol

[edc]

Looks like what my cat is brining in. The link suggests the ones I'm getting are young - size and colour - but it seems too early for young ones.

[tonyvid]

Haighermeister said:

That looks a lot larger than my one. Lol

Have you tried standing further away from your screen?

[y2blade]

Haighermeister said:

Recently by cat has given up on Voles and Mice and has started bringing these things in...



Just over an inch long (this one has no tail but they normally do) and obviously some kind of lizard creature.

I live in cornwall, I never realised we had any wild lizard population!

Any ideas what it is??

can you show us its underside?

it is defiantly NOT a newt

[Haighermeister]

I didn't take a pic, sorry.

It's underside was scaly and whiteish.

[omgus]

Looks like a Common Lizard to me, they are one of my cats favourite prey, but always brought home live he hasn't killed one yet (that i know of), magpies/squirrels/mice/rats/pidgeons/tits/starlings/blackbirds/voles are almost always dying when they get to the house but the lizards he just carrys about. However to be fair to him he is very very very stupid.

Oh the other cat has grown out of hunting small animals now and sticks to other cats and foxes to get her kicks, i feel a massive vets bill coming in the future.