Centipede!

     They've got knees, you know, moving in a forest of long, scissoring legs like a busy assembly line of robots.  This one went zooming across the kitchen floor from sink to stove.  Tamara and both cats alerted on it, with Holden Wu expressing considerable interest in hunting the wriggly insect: a long-legged centipede, almost certainly the House Centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata, and probably lured by our small springtime invasion of "crazy ants."

     They are slightly venomous, with a bite that  can inflict bee-sting levels of pain.  So while Tam herded the cats to safety, I did what was necessary.  While I hate getting rid of a small creature that hunts ants, they're not safe toys for the the cats.