The Lizard Is Not A-Mew-sed

(My one-year-old daughter and I are home alone. I’m in the kitchen, fixing lunch, when I hear my daughter calling out from the doorway:)

Daughter: “Kitty! Kitty!”

Me: “The kitties are outside, sweetheart.”

Daughter: “Kitty!”

(I walk over to see what she’s talking about. She’s smiling proudly and clutching a very disgruntled-looking lizard in her hands.)

Daughter: “Kitty!”

Me: *giving up* “Yes, [Daughter], kitty. Now, let’s go put the kitty outside, okay?”

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