Exactly. The skeleton of a 7 lb. house cat and the skeleton of a 800 lb. Siberian Tiger are so similar that if you shrunk one down or enlarged the other, they would be nearly indistinguishable.
Or so I am told...:)
And they have a lot of similar behaviors. When you see a housecat catch an animal and, turning to look at you with the still twitching prey its jaws, you see in its eyes the wild, unhuman, pitiless, predator.
It is the same animal you may have stroked the chin of as you saw it walking down the street, but it is clearly tapping into a more primitive part of its brain.
I find cats fascinating.
As I often say to Mrs llevrok, were our ginger boy 30 pounds bigger, we’d his lunch.
The cat is the perfect hunting machine.
In particular is it’s triangle shaped head.
It focus’s the cats bite to a particular point, like a bolt cutter.