What does a Cat-Lizard look like?

I just finished re-reading David Weber’s By Heresies Distressed the third book in his Safehold series. Basically, the planet of Safehold is the last hope for humanity’s continued existence. A hostile alien race called the Gbaba has mercilessly destroyed all the rest of humanity including the planet earth. There had been a previous attempt to establish a colony on a planet far far away from the rest of the planets that the people of Earth had settled, but the Gbaba had found them and destroyed them as well and the theory was that they had found them through the traces of energy that their technologically advanced society had put out.

A new fleet of ships was arranged to take humanity’s remnants to a safe place and due to the fear of the technological giveaway the colonists agreed to stay a low tech society for at least three hundred years. Unbeknownst to them, however, some of the leaders of the expedition mind wiped them and created this idea that they were Archangels of God and the colonists were each Adams and Eves of the new society that was designed to stay low tech forever. They destroyed those others of the leadership who disagreed with their megalomaniac idea.

Those in opposition had seen what was coming and put a few backup plans in motion, after all, even if they stayed a low tech society there was no guarantee that the Gbaba wouldn’t eventually find them. The only hope would be for humanity to take to the stars again and obliterate the Gbaba. To this end they left behind a PICA, a high tech robot that looks, sounds and acts human, that you can download your personality into and then go do dangerous things and experience them firsthand as a part of the robot. “Merlin” was set to awaken several centuries after the colony was started, and he alone knows the truth of the founding of the planet. He is tasked with destroying the “church” that controls the entire planet they have severe restrictions on new technological improvements and keep the planet at a level equivalent to the middle ages of Earth. There is also a system in orbit that has the power to destroy anything that comes close to its technological level.

I read the latest book in the series A Mighty Fortress (Safehold Book 4) not too long ago when it finally reached the Boone Library, but realized that due to the length of time between book releases, I needed to go back and re-read the series to update myself on certain details. Something that has me curious is what a cat-lizard looks like. A lot of the planet’s creatures are reptilian in nature and they have a pet called a Cat-Lizard that acts and apparently looks a lot like a cat, but I just can’t wrap my mind around the lizard/cat combo. The first book of the series is Off Armageddon Reefand By Schism Rent Asunder (Safehold 2)  is the second book in the series.