Very cute pets. Our cats, Gil and Agatha, are very clever at finding shady spots in the searing Australian summers. Whereas the lizards that inhabit my garden, not pets but more commensals, like to bask in the sun on days when I would get heatstroke if I tried that. Those lizards do earn their keep - although they eat some of the fruit and flowers from my strawberries and muntries, and the big bluetongues and stumpytails will jump up or scramble into the lower branches of the bushes to reach ripe gooseberries or blueberries, the lizards nevertheless also eat a lot of locusts, caterpillars, snails and slugs and other pest creatures, so on the balance they are useful.