Kitties and Wiggley Lizard Tails

The other day I came across a interesting situation. I can't remember what I was doing, but I may have been watching TV or on the Internet in the living room. When all of sudden, I heard a weird sound coming from the back room. I wasn't going to go look into it, as I figured it was nothing, but I changed my mind for some reason.

I walked into the bedroom and called out to the cats. Neither of them came running though. I heard clacking of the long blinds from the back door. I walked around the bed to take a look and the cats were indeed playing in the blinds. They were enthralled with something. I pushed the blinds away and there on the ground is something wiggling.

I look closely and realize it is a lizard tail flapping around on the carpet! I immediately threw it out the back door. The cats were quite sad at me for throwing away what they considered a toy.

My first thought was, how in the world did it get inside? Did the cats bring it in the house? No, that doesn't sound right, as they hadn't been outside in hours. The tail wouldn't be still wiggling, if it had been that long. The only thing that I can think of, is that some how the lizard got into the house and the cats pulled off it's tail while playing with it.

The big question is, where is the lizard now?