It seems like a cat and a lizard in one room is a perfect recipe for disaster. These reptiles are tiny, they move, and they are living things, which make them easy prey for most felines who haven’t entirely given up on their wild instincts.

Surprisingly, from what you can see in this rather intense compilation from Bored Panda right down below, things are not that easy. Cold-blooded lizards are not surrendering to four-legged hunters any time soon. And on the contrary, lizards and cats sometimes do make a perfect friendship.

The dynamic of such friendliness is, in fact, so complicated and all, I can’t do much other than leave you with the quote: “there’s only one step from love to hate.” From felines who are convinced they’re lizards, to lizards holding onto their chin for like, an eternity, these are some of the most dramatic encounters that blur the line between what we call an enemy and a best friend.

#1 My Friend’s Cat Playing With The Lizard

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#2 My Colleague Made This Photo. Crouching Cat, Hidden Lizard

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#3 Two Unlikely Best Friends

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#4 Stalking Lizards Is Tiring Work

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#5 My Cat Thinks He’s A Lizard…

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#6 My Cat Has Been Looking Everywhere For This Lizard

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#7 So A Lizard Got In The House

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#8 Today’s Top News From Isolation: A Lizard Is On The Fence

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#9 Rare Moment Captured This Morning As Our Cat (Who Is Very Shy) Booped Our Bearded Dragon (Who Is Always Sleeping Under His Rock)

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#10 My Cat Caught A Lizard And Had No Idea How To Proceed

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#11 The Expression On My Cat’s Face Is Pure Ecstasy. Iggy Enjoys Lying On Him Because He’s Fat And Warm

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#12 Lizard Spotted

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#13 This Is Why Cats Shouldn’t Play With Lizards

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#14 “Undivided Attention” Brought To You By A Small Lizard On The Bathroom Window

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#15 Lizard Gets Pushed To The Edge And Attacks My Cat

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#16 Fat Eli & Ron The Dragon

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#17 My Friend’s Cat Likes To Catch Lizards… This One Caught Him Back

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#18 My Cat Tried To Eat A Lizard So The Lizard Tried To Eat Him Back

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#19 A Lizard Caught My Cat

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#20 They Want That Lizard Soooo Bad

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#21 My Bearded Dragon And My Roommate’s Kitten Are Buddies

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#22 I’ve Made A Huge Mistake

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#23 My Cat Brought Me A Lizard

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#24 My Cat Pretty Much Adopted My Rescue Lizard As Her Weird Scaly Kitten And The Two Are Inseparable. They Have Naps Together, Spy On The Neighbors Through The Window Together And Just Generally Hang Out Together Every Chance They Get

They have naps together, spy on the neighbors through the window together and just generally hang out together every chance they get. (All interactions are 100% supervised).

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#25 Turned Around For One Minute While Walter Was Out Running Around And He Got Himself All The Way Up The Door. He Is Such A Character. Minky The Cat Was Jealous

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#26 Baby Bearded Dragon And Cat, Should I Keep Them Apart?

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#27 Eating Lunch Together

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#28 My Friend’s Bearded Dragon Likes To Cuddle With Her Two Cats

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#29 My Friends Just Posted This Pic Of Their Kitty And Their Bearded Dragon

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#30 Took My Bearded Dragon To A Clinic I’m Interning At

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#31 When You Catch Dinner, But Dinner Catches You Back. The Lizard Bit The Cats Lip For Over 5 Mins

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#32 My Cat Loves Her Buddy. She Constantly Wants To Play And He’ll Be No Part Of It

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#33 Cat vs. Lizard

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#34 It’s Called Fashion, Honey

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#35 When The Prey Attacks Back. The Lizard Clamped Onto Her Whiskers And Wouldn’t Let Go. Paget The Cat Wasn’t Sure What Was Going On, But She Didn’t Like It

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#36 Cat vs. Lizard

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#37 At This Moment, A Beautiful Friendship Begun Between Lizard And Cat

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#38 Cat vs. Lizard

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#39 My Cat Likes To Play With Lizards, This One Decided To Fight Back

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#40 Cat Playing With A Lizard

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#41 You Talking To Me?

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#42 Here Is A Lizard On A Cat

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#43 Pearl Up Against A Dinosaur

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#44 Eleanor Has A Lizard Friend. It’s Been Showing Up Every Night For The Past Two Weeks

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#45 Someone Asked Me To Post This Picture Of My Three Cats Here, I’m Not Sure Why

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#46 My Hopeless Hunter: Hour 2 Of Stalking Lizards In The Back Yard

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#47 Just My Cat Cuddling With My Iguana

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#48 She Caught A Lizard

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#49 Lizard Likes Warm Surfaces, Cat Likes His Back Scratched – Some Problems Solve Themselves

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#50 A Game Of Cat And Lizard. This Has Been An All Night Game

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#51 Shhhh… Be Quiet Cat, We’re Hunting Bugs

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#52 Silly Cat, You Are Not A Lizard

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#53 Who Would Have Thought A Lizard And A Cat Could Be Best Friends? If The Gecko Is In His Hide, The Cat Will Tap On The Glass And He’ll Come Out And See His Buddy

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#54 There’s Something About Lizards And Cats Together That Makes Me Turn Into A Little Girl

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#55 He Has His Own Bouncer (Against Other Cats)

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#56 He Decided To Try To Make Friends With My Cat By Jumping On Him. Cat Not So Enthusiastic About This Approach

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#57 My Cat Spud Gets Into Gible’s Enclosure Every Day And Hangs Out In His Basking Spot With Him

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#58 Winter Morning With The Cat

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#59 Hermes Caught A Gorgeous Lizard, Wasn’t Happy When I Set It Free

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#60 Mr. Baby Was In Little Dudes Way While He Was Running Around The House. He Decided To Walk Over Mr. Baby

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#61 Lexi (Cat) And Her Friend Larry (Lizard) Watching TV Together

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#62 Mulan With One Of My Lizards

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#63 Unlikely Friends – Siamese Kitty & Bearded Dragon

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#64 This Lizard Battles Our Cat

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#65 Poe Showed No Fear Climbing Up My Boyfriend’s Slipper With Two Cats Looking Like They Wanted To Eat Her

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#66 One Of My Fluffs With Her Lizard Friend

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#67 Found Our Cat And Beardy Napping Together In The Window Hammock. Busted Lovers

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#68 My Little Elliot Seems To Like My Cat

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#69 An Unlikely Friendship Between My Beardie And Karl The Cat

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#70 Cat Loves Dragon, Dragon Tolerates Cat

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#71 Nugget Came Out For A Morning Bask And Our Cat Came To Say Hello

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#72 My Beardie Smaug Sleeping On My Cat King

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#73 Gandalf & Spice The Cat

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#74 My Cat Is Afraid Of This Ferocious Dragon

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#75 Cat Adventure

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#76 Cat Uses Bite… It’s Not Very Effective

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#77 Beardie Found A Comfy Spot On My Cat

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#78 I Brought My Friend In The House The Other Day, Mom Was Mad

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#79 My Lizard Thinks The Cats Can Feed Him. Umm

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#80 My Cat And Lizard

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#81 My Cat Just Realized It’s Not An Empty Tank Anymore

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#82 My Lizard (Bub) Wants To Be Friends With My Daughter’s Cat (Nero) So Bad

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#83 Mama Cat Hunted A Lizard For Her Kitties

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#84 There’s A Lizard On The Window. They’ve Been Like This For An Hour

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#85 Ling Ling The Cat And Chocolate Sit Like This For Hours, Looking Out The Window

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#86 Can Someone Tell Me What Kind Of Lizard My Cat’s Playmate Is? (Released Outside Unharmed)

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#87 When It’s Warm And Sunny, These Two Orange Goofballs Cuddle Up In The Windowsill. Kitties And Lizards Can Be Friends, Too

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#88 My Tegu And Our Cat

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#89 Lucy Is Getting Taunted By A Lizard

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#90 My Anderpuff Met A Lizard Friend, And It Melted Me

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#91 Ser Jeffers Befriending A Cat

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#92 Cats Eating Lizards Is Normal Right?

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#93 This Lizard Comes Up To The Window And Drives My Cats Crazy Everyday At Dawn And Dusk

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#94 Fat Lizard Next To Cat

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#95 Moo Moo Catches/Watches A Lizard

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#96 I Recently Moved And Have This Temporary Set Up At A Corner. My Cat Love To Bake With My Bearded Dragon

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#97 Lizard Meets Cat. (My Fire Skink Ogan And My Cat Minnie)

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#98 My Cat Loves To Hang Out With My Friend’s Lizard

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#99 Just My Wee Cat Kissing My Lizards

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#100 My Cat Caught A Lizard

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#101 Lizard Hunting

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#102 The Cat Does Not Understand

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#103 Left The Room And Came Back To My Cat Inside Harvey’s Tank. No Beardies Harmed

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#104 Cat Has Zero Fear Of Water… Makes For Fun Beardie Baths

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#105 My Cat Loves To Bring Lizards Inside The House And “Play” With Them Until They Crawl Off And Die. Found This Today Under The Carpet

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#106 Someday She’ll Get This Lizard

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#107 Lately They’ve Been Inseparable. Cobra (Beardie) Arya (Cat)

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#108 Neighbor’s Cat Having A Stare Off With My Pet Lizard

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#109 My Power Went Out Due To A Rainstorm The Other Day So Baby Decided To Keep The Lizard Warm

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#110 Frank The Cat And Artie Hanging Out In The Screened In Porch

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#111 Sharing Yard Supervision Duties With My Friend’s Cat

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#112 Cat vs. Lizard

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#113 This Stray Got A Small Lizard To Play With. Eventually He Ate It

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#114 Cooper vs. Lizard

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#115 The Cat Is Very Curious

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#116 Arlo Is Getting His Daily Dose Of Cuddles With The Cat. Also It Was His Birthday 2 Days Ago

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#117 Trying To Introduce My Cat To Thorn. But She Got Scared And Ran Away

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#118 I Can’t Tell If Fig Likes The Cats Or If He Just Likes Antagonizing Them. The Cat Was Asleep And He Crawled Over Next To Her Either Way

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#119 This Kitten Tamed A Lizard And They Are Napping Together

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