Little cats returned the favor. ;^)
Posted on 06/30/2006 12:18:14 PM PDT by annie laurie
Early humans living in Africa's open savannahs probably made easy pickings for large predatory cats, but a new study suggests that at least one of the meals didn't sit well.
A large cat dining on the entrails of one our early ancestors thousands of years ago contracted an ulcer-causing bacteria that spread to lions, cheetahs and tigers and which persists to this day, a new study concludes.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Waiting for the tree huggers to scream how this proves humans have always harmed animals
LOL. And they'll completely ignore the fact that the ulcer victim whose entrails were eaten didn't fare too well thanks to animals.
Little cats returned the favor. ;^)
But we love them anyway (or maybe because ;-))
That we do. ;)
There was the time that my wife and daughter went home to Minot North Dakota to visit Grandma. They visited the Minot Zoo which has a Siberian Snow Tiger. My wife went close to the chain link fence to get a picture and the Tiger "marked her!" Needless to say, I wish I had a picture of that!!
Yea, those tiger cubs are cute now. Give them another six months, and "playtime" will turn to "lunchtime."
OMG, that is my dream!!!! Eeeeee giant kitties!!!
That depends on the individual cat. I've met a panther who was as nice as any housecat.
Of course, when she wanted to sit on you, it wasn't quite as comfortable as when a housecat had the same impulse.
Okay, this brought up a question here that no one could answer: Would a house trained "big cat" have terratorial protective instincts similar to big dogs? In other words, would a big cat act as a "watchcat" and attack an unwelcome intruder?
My son spectulated yes, but my thinking is the cat would hide for a while.
It depends on the species and the individual cat. For the panther in question, the answer was a most emphatic "yes!"
A burglar broke into my friend's home one day while he was at work. He got a call from the local PD asking him to come home and get his cat off the top of the guy so they could haul him off to jail. (The silent alarm had gone off and summoned police.)
Oh, that's such a riot! ("Goooooood girl!")
[rimshot!]
And gas.
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