Missing Spencer

Spencer has been gone for six months now.  Our yard has become over-run with lizards, large, fat lizards.  I don't mind lizards, but he kept them in check.  This means the mice are probably growing in population as well and that brings critters I don't like.  Snakes.  My neighbor's dog was bitten by a rattlesnake last weekend.  Just sayin', I think we need another cat!  BUT, then there's the issue of critters that love cats, for dinner that is.  What to do, what to do...