Sandra Turgeon was watching television with her boyfriend when she noticed her cats chasing after something that had darted across the living room floor of her Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., home.

“I thought there might be a spider, because sometimes there’s a spider in the house and they start to chase it,” Turgeon said about the Saturday night experience. 

As Turgeon got closer, she realized, “No, it’s too long to be a spider. What is this thing?

“It looks like a lizard. I’ve never seen a lizard in the house before.”

Turgeon grabbed a nearby Tupperware container and tried to corral the leaping