Thanks- I had watched a video on youtube showing all different kidns of cats around the world, and they definitely mentioned the sand cat as one you really did not want as a pet because it was fierce and territorial, and has huge canine teeth- and are difficult ot impossible to domesticate-
Again, for domestication, I would wonder if that applied to born in captivity and raised as though domestic (even if that took using a regular house cat as foster nursing mother of a newborn). Taking one even just weaned from a wild litter might already have it learned enough from its mother to be difficult to manage.
There are lots of little wild cats out there that I have never heard of. It’s very interesting. I had never heard of this blackfooted little guy nor the Sandcat prior to today.
This one I came across several weeks back called the Kodkod...smallest cat in the Americas (South America):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodkod