Ahhh... Florida. If their own native madness wasn't enough, they now have Nile monitor lizards... eating kitties and growing up to 7 feet long. Just doing the devouring American lizards won't do, I guess.
After a night of desperate searching, a woman discovered the mutilated remains of her beloved cat on the muddy bank of a canal near her Cape Coral home. She believes a large, ravenous and invasive lizard committed the heinous act.
A now infamous name among Cape households, Nile monitors are cold- blooded predators introduced into the city sometime before 1990. These reptiles, which grow to a length of 7 feet, have proliferated, devouring just about everything in their path, including small mammals, snakes, shellfish, eggs and even juvenile alligators.
It was a Nile monitor that may have eaten Suzanne Spana's 16-year-old cat,”Kitty Largo.”
“We just found his paws and a little bit of his coat and some of his tail,” said Spana. “He was gone. There was nothing left of him.”
Spana, 45, spotted a juvenile Nile monitor crawl out of the woods near her home on 918 S.W. 12th Terrace about two weeks before she found Kitty Largo's remains last Friday morning.
“He walked right along our seawall, He looked pretty young, which concerned me because he must have parents,” she said. “We have empty lots on both sides of us that don¹t have seawalls, so they can basically come up from anywhere.”
The city of Cape Coral’s only Nile monitor trapper, Robert Mondgock, answered Spana's distressed call after the incident and laid a trap baited with chicken parts Sunday on the canal bank where Kitty Largo died.
He found another cat’s collar near the kill site.
“I was thinking this was an isolated incident, but when he came back with another collar it just broke my heart,” said Spana.
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