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This is the smallest African wild cat, the black-footed cat... (Beautiful cat alert)
IMGUR ^ | June 30, 2015 | KittyInTheCity

Posted on 07/01/2015 10:38:51 AM PDT by beaversmom

More pics here: This is the smallest...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: africa; blackfootedcat; cat; kittyping; wildcat; wildlife
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To: beaversmom

Some of the pics appear to be hybridized with felis cattus.


61 posted on 07/01/2015 1:27:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: beaversmom

I suppose they might, sometimes, but we’ve never seen it.


62 posted on 07/01/2015 1:43:28 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: beaversmom

Just beautiful!!


63 posted on 07/01/2015 1:47:48 PM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless America And Our Troops)
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To: Tax-chick

That would be nice for a little treat for him, but maybe not healthy...I don’t know.


64 posted on 07/01/2015 1:49:51 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

I don’t know anything about a safe diet for him. It’s fun to watch him wade in the pool, though. You don’t see a cat doing that every day!


65 posted on 07/01/2015 2:03:05 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: Grimmy

The origin of domesticated cats is disputed and nebulous, AFAIK. The possibility exists that they’ve been making human life possible for so long that their wild kin went extinct without a non-cat species to take care of. :’) Otherwise, their genes probably will tell the tale.


66 posted on 07/01/2015 2:15:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: beaversmom

Meh

Happy now? lol

Cute as can be, I want one almost as much as I want a pet Lynx. Bobcat maybe...I’m a photographer, somewhere I have some shots of a bobcat and a couple of almost grown young not far from where I sit, only chance I’ve had. I’ll have to dig a little. With over 1000 posted on Flickr that ain’t easy...

I’m a cat guy, have a black kitty apparently abandoned by her mother, had to be bottle fed for over a month, that young, turned into a pure monster...hates everybody, sometimes I think she hates me too...my niece calls her Sybil...my sister calls her cat from hell...

OK I’m fairly new here so I don’t know if this will get me in trouble, but I dug around a little and found them, my only chance at a shot of one of my favorite cats, Bobcat. If you look close, one of the young is to her left. Now to see if this works right...if not I’ll try again and do the HTML thing...

[url=https://flic.kr/p/jj9BU1][img]https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3738/12019800404_59beab7e6a_z.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/jj9BU1]IMGP41006[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/paleopete/]Paleo Pete[/url], on Flickr

Those who are interested can check out a lot of other pretty decent shots I’ve taken of birds, wildlife, insects and flowers (yeah I’m plugging my photography)

www.flickr.com/paleopete

Hope that’s not unacceptable...


67 posted on 07/01/2015 2:58:16 PM PDT by Paleo Pete (If you had everything...where would you put it?)
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To: beaversmom

They’re gorgeous!!


68 posted on 07/01/2015 3:21:55 PM PDT by pallmallman (Q)
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To: beaversmom

They’re gorgeous!!


69 posted on 07/01/2015 3:24:03 PM PDT by pallmallman (Q)
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To: beaversmom




Another pretty little kitty-the Texas Ocelet

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This beautiful, shy and reclusive little cat once ranged as far east as Arkansas and Louisiana, throughout Texas and in Mexico. Today ocelots are currently found only in extreme southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. The remnant U.S. ocelot population in south Texas has declined from 80-120 individuals in 1995 to less than 50 in recent years, with about half of ocelot deaths resulting from being hit by automobiles. Most surviving Texas ocelots are in the shrub lands remaining at or near the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge near Brownsville, where only 30-35 animals remain.

The Ocelot also usually gives birth to only one kitten although litters of two or three kittens also occur, but are not common. The small litter size and relative infrequency of breeding make the ocelot particularly vulnerable to extinction.

The ocelot is similar in appearance to a domestic cat although somewhat larger. The ocelot ranges from 27 to 39 inches in length, plus 10 to 18 inches in tail length, and typically weighs 18 to 40 pounds.

Its fur resembles that of a clouded leopard or jaguar and was once regarded as very valuable. As a result, hundreds of thousands of ocelots were once killed for their fur. Hunting and loss of habitat have reduced these beautiful little cat's numbers to near extinction in North America.

See my bio page for more info and other endangered Texas animals



70 posted on 07/01/2015 3:44:59 PM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: beaversmom

Awwww, kittens are the cutest creatures on earth.......


71 posted on 07/01/2015 3:45:08 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: beaversmom
OK I'll try this again, that turned into a link... Bobcat and young IMGP41006
72 posted on 07/01/2015 4:04:00 PM PDT by Paleo Pete (If you had everything...where would you put it?)
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To: beaversmom

Being a Bachelor,it would be safer for all parties concerned!


73 posted on 07/01/2015 6:38:52 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Paleo Pete

Belated welcome to FR. And great picture(s)! He is so well camouflaged.


74 posted on 07/02/2015 12:52:18 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: SunkenCiv
Some of the pics appear to be hybridized with felis cattus.

Which kitty? Black-foot or Geoffroy?

75 posted on 07/02/2015 12:55:38 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: patriot08

That is one beautiful wildcat. Thanks for sharing pic and info about him. Another one I had never heard of! So many elusive pussy cats out there.


76 posted on 07/02/2015 12:57:30 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Paleo Pete

I don’t think it’s unacceptable to post your photography. :)


77 posted on 07/02/2015 12:59:21 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

Thanks, being fairly new I wasn’t sure. I’ve been lurking for a month or two, finally decided to join, not many other sites online you can get an actually intelligent discussion instead of the standard fare of nonstop insults, ridicule and name calling...

Glad you like my photography. I’ve been at it for over 30 years, got into nature photography years ago. I have maybe a half dozen shots of those cats, the only wild cats I’ve been able to get in all that time.

Off topic side note, I just discovered two Red Foxes hanging around near my yard, and a pair of Prothonotary Warblers have decided to use a nesting box I built for the 2nd year in a row. Built it for the Tufted Titmouse. Going to be trying to get more shots of those soon. SO far that’s Prothonotary Warblers, Bluebirds, Carolina Chickadees, Mockingbirds, Cardinals, Tufted Titmouse, Hawks, Orchard Orioles, Carolina Wrens, Summer Tanagers, Hummingbirds, and Brown Thrashers nesting in or near our yard. And a Roadrunner has been spotted a couple of times across the street.

Any wonder I’m into wildlife?


78 posted on 07/02/2015 1:44:27 PM PDT by Paleo Pete (If you had everything...where would you put it?)
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To: beaversmom

Just in general.


79 posted on 07/02/2015 1:46:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Paleo Pete; SWAMPSNIPER

You might want to post to SWAMPSNIPER, he is another FReeper wildlife photographer.


80 posted on 07/02/2015 1:47:17 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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