Furry avatars of doom

Can't remember where I found it and it's too long to copy and paste, but it starts off like this:

HOW TO GIVE YOUR CAT A PILL:

1) Pick cat up and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.

2) Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process.

3) Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away...
 

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To be clear, I think that what the likes of the 'Tiger King' do is obscene, but this is a cat rescued from a zoo after being abandoned by her mother. There is no chance that she could have survived to maturity, let alone been 'returned' to her natural environment. She's now given what animal behaviourists call an 'enriched' life.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EZC5s2dH64


Luna_the_pantera

This channel is about the life and adventures of a little leopard named Luna, which people have replaced the parents. ÐÑÐ¾Ñ ÐºÐ°Ð½Ð°Ð» о жизни и пÑиклÑÑениÑÑ Ð¼Ð°Ð»ÐµÐ½Ñкого леопаÑдÑнка по имени ÐÑна, коÑоÑÐ¾Ð¼Ñ Ð»Ñди заменили ÑодиÑелей.
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Rhinocrates said:
She's now given what animal behaviourists call an 'enriched' life.
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Panther Luna and Puma Messi seem to be living the life. But I fear that one day one or both of them will remember just what they are and there'll be People Shreds all over the place, and that'll be the end of them.
 
publiusr said:
Maybe, but I'd worry more about the dog biting someone.
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I'm an ailurophile myself, but I gather that dog breeds that are feared are really just very loyal to their owners and are OK if they're brought up well, socialised, and properly disciplined. There was a time when there was panic about Dobermans, but you don't hear about them anymore.

In this case, I'm glad that Luna can play outdoors. Imagine being indoors with a panther that has the zoomies. I wouldn't want to have any valuable antiques in the house.
 
That said, I'm not naive about big cats. I visited parks and one had warning signs saying 'Trespassers will be eaten' and another where one of the handlers was able to show us tiger cubs in his arms but he jogged to wherever he wanted to go and once when he did so, I saw that a leopard in its enclosure instantly, reflexively, leapt to the boundary of its cage. It stopped, but it kept watching. A predator needs its reflexes to be successful and won't think before attacking if it senses potential prey. I read a few years later that he had been killed by a tiger in the park and it was subsequently closed. Lesson: don't act like a threat or like prey.

Specimens of Felis catus are cute and loveable because they're small and we can physically dominate them. They're also admirable because they're clearly still wild animals and superb predators on their own terms and that both amuses and teaches us. I'm just amazed that certain people can make relationships with big cats, but then certain animals are smart enough to understand that some relationships are to their advantage without necessarily being bred over millennia into domestication.
 
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Slimy avatar of, well, something. A different kind of puss.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBFRu4gkdA


There's a great book by Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus (https://symontgomery.com/soul-of-an-octopus/), and a documentary, Secrets of the Octopus (
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxOHYy1w92c
), which she wrote the companion volume for.

David Scheel, a marine biologist, kept an octopus in his home and it turned out that she liked watching David Attenborough documentaries (
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABCg2oLB5wo&list=PLZmHYbKix5ARcmbnpIxgjvrfFyzaJDhVe
). His own recent book is Many Things Under a Rock (https://www.amazon.com.au/Many-Things-Under-Rock-Mysteries/dp/1324020695).

Tragically, octopuses have very short lifespans - usually a year or even less - and even the giants live only four years. If I was a mad scientist, that's the first thing I'd fix.
 
Some new words: nekomata, bakeneko.

The nekomata is a cat monster with a forked tail and a taste for human flesh. The creature’s powers include the ability to talk, walk on hind legs, shape-shift, fly, and even resurrect the dead.

[...]

In the 1600s people began to tell stories about bakeneko the “changed cat”. Davisson explains that this may have happened because lamps burned fish oil, which attracted cats, whose shadows were enlarged and animated by the flames. Davisson again: “They smoked pipes. Played dice. And got up to all kinds of trouble that every hard-working farmer wished they could indulge in.”

This myth is still around today: domestic cats who live to be more than 10 years old become bakeneko. They kill their owners, walk around on their hind legs, and take over the home. Sometimes, they shapeshift into old women, or old women are said to actually be bakeneko.

A cat: ‘They smoked pipes, played dice’ | Helen Sullivan

In more than one image from 1900s Japan, they look hungover
www.theguardian.com
 
Rhinocrates said:
This myth is still around today: domestic cats who live to be more than 10 years old become bakeneko. They kill their owners, walk around on their hind legs, and take over the home. Sometimes, they shapeshift into old women, or old women are said to actually be bakeneko.
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sounds to me like behaviour of normal house cat...
 


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