Lizards, Anyone?

So I get home from doing some errands (I'm getting ready for the Renfest this weekend, acting as a pirate on the pirate ship) and Riley is running back and forth across the cabinets near the sink.

I think it's a cricket. A lot of crickets have been getting in lately because the duplex we live in is poorly made, and its now warm enough for insects to start breeding like... er... well, insects.

A shelf from the ferret cage that needs to be cleaned in blocking part of the cabinets, so I think, "Let's move it and see what's got Riley's panties in a bunch." I move the shelf to the side and out zips a four legged lizard looking thing!

I think, "Aw shit!" and tell Riley very firmly, "No!"

As if in a cartoon, he freezes. You can tell in his eyes that oh, man he want to put that zippity creature in his mouth and see how it feels against his teeth. But he's finally learned that when Momma says "No," we aren't messing around.

So he stays frozen, and I tell him he's a good boy and then make him leave the kitchen. At this point, Mary Jane wants to know what the hell is going on. She and Riley sit on the other side of the kitchen gate, Riley upset that he couldn't catch this thing and Mary Jane just so damn confused.

I am able to capture this scurrying, slippery thing under a box, then slowly slide one of my thinnest cook books (American Girl: Samantha's Cookbook) beneath the box, pick up the thing inside and take him out.

I plop him in the grass and he stays frozen against the green blades of grass, the hot sun beating down on him. He's breathing fast but dare not move as such an enormous predator hangs nearby.

He was a silver thing with reddish orange colors around his jaw area. It seemed the center line of his body was more silver than his sides, the rest of which was a darker gray silver.

I wish I could have taken a picture, but I knew that if I went inside he would leave immediately.

Riley is still currently upset about his loss. He switches from crying in the kitchen to coming back to me. I wonder if he thinks I still have the little critter that's as quick as silver.

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Update on 4/29/13:
The critter is actually a 5-Lined SKINK! Hurray!
Thank you Jay and Rebecca.