PSA To anyone who allows their cats near their reptiles:

It is extremely dangerous no matter how much you trust or know your cat and this is why.

This is our Nova, no we didn’t purposely allow her near our cats; she somehow managed to escape her locked tub while we were sleeping two days ago.

Thankfully, we aren’t near the polar vortex, however, we do have two cats; one is a known hunter and killer, our other just likes to play with things rather than kill them. “Luckily”, she was only found by the one who likes to play rather than kill. They have both seen Nova before, but were never allowed anywhere near who ever was handling her at the time for this exact reason.

We are extremely lucky that this was best case scenario - she is alive, she ate, and the injuries aren’t deep nor severe bites, they are only small punctures and scratches from curious claws.

We are keeping a very close eye on the injuries; we have her in a sterile environment, and have Betadine on hand to keep the wounds clean.