WARNING, Dan Cantor, WARNING!!!

Ronald J. Huff held the lease on the small studio at the Towne Court Apartments. But it was his seven monitor lizards that owned the place.

Two handmade, wooden cages big enough to hold a 6-foot animal were stacked against one wall, partially blocking the kitchen. Aquariums and cushions for the smaller lizards to lounge upon were scattered around the apartment. Small shelves had been cut into his bathroom closet, providing a place for the reptiles to snooze after roaming freely.

Huff's fascination with the giant lizards came to a grisly end this week; New Castle County police found his cold- blooded pets eating his body Wednesday.