Exotic caracal cat captured in Chicago suburb

UPI ^ | October 17, 2024 | Ben Hooper

[Red Badger]

Oct. 16 (UPI) -- An exotic caracal cat seen wandering loose in a Chicago suburb for the past few days was safely captured by animal control officers, authorities said.

The Hoffman Estates Police Department said the caracal, a wild cat species native to Africa and parts of Asia, was found hiding under a local resident's deck and was loaded into a cage by animal control officers.

"He did not like being in that cage," resident Jan Hoffman-Rau told WBBM-TV. "The cat came out wild. I mean, they had it in -- called a snare, or something, with a rope -- and they had it by the neck, but when they dropped it in the cage it went crazy."

She said the officers made sure not to injure the cat during the capture.

"They shot it with a tranquilizer gun, but the drug they used wasn't as potent enough to knock it out. It didn't get real groggy until it was in the cage for about 7-8 minutes," Hoffman-Rau said.

Police said the caracal will have a new permanent home at the Valley of the Kings Sanctuary and Retreat in Sharon, Wis.

"We are sure he will have a healthy and happy life far away from Hoffman Estates," police wrote on social media.

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[teeman8r]

if you are rich, you can just pick that thang up

[HeadOn]

WOW. Wonder where it came from?

[Jamestown1630]

That’s an endangered animal. I wonder how someone got hold of it in the first place.

[mass55th]

How many Haitians are in Chicago?

[packagingguy]

It came over the border using the CB1 app.

[Jamestown1630]

It’s native to the Middle East, Africa and parts of India/Pakistan. My guess is that it was poached from the wild as a baby; there’s a lot of illegal trade in exotic animals.
Then when it grows and people can’t handle it anymore, they release if.

[boycott]

All kinds of illegals coming in.

[bgill]

That’s the question. He was brought over with an illegal or some rich dude had it shipped in. Now, it’s going to live in a cage at that so called sanctuary. Poor thing. Wish they’d have shipped him to somewhere that provided more room and land to roam.

[Tommy Revolts]

Pretty cool cat. I wonder if it came through the border unvetted?

[PIF]

Valley of the Kings Sanctuary is located just outside of Darien, WI at W7593 Townhall Rd, Sharon, WI 53585.

https://votk.org/

[PIF]

Flown in on one of those Biden/Harris pre-approved illegal alien flights from Africa.

[fluffy]

Caracals are commonly kept as pets, they are not endangered. They make good pets for people who understand cats, and while not as domestic as Servals they can be quite friendly. This one obviously got out of someone’s house and I feel sorry for them having lost a companion to the ignorant hand of government.

[NorthMountain]

The border is so effed up that even illegal alien CATS are crossing ...

[Red Badger]

It’s Vetted now...................

[Jamestown1630]

Depends on where it comes from. The ones in Central Asia are considered ‘critically endangered’. The South African ones are ‘least concern’.

[Zhang Fei]

[It’s native to the Middle East, Africa and parts of India/Pakistan. My guess is that it was poached from the wild as a baby; there’s a lot of illegal trade in exotic animals.
Then when it grows and people can’t handle it anymore, they release if.]

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Many exotic pet owners don’t realize that domestic pets are different from wild animals in that the former went through many generations of selection. Some were bred and aggressive animals culled. Others persisted in human company because the ones who did not attack humans were fed, while the aggressive ones were either cast out or killed. Either way, this took generations. The century-long effort to domesticate the silver fox is a case in point.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox
[After over 40 generations of breeding, in short, Belyayev produced “a group of friendly, domesticated foxes who ‘displayed behavioral, physiological, and anatomical characteristics that were not found in the wild population, or were found in wild foxes but with much lower frequency….Many of the domesticated foxes had floppy ears, short or curly tails, extended reproductive seasons, changes in fur coloration, and changes in the shape of their skulls, jaws, and teeth. They also lost their ‘musky fox smell’.”[6] It was Belyayev’s view that these new attributes, which were extremely similar to the attributes of other domesticated animals, “was the result of selection for amenability to domestication.” His reasoning was that behavior is “regulated by a fine balance between neurotransmitters and hormones at the level of the whole organism ... . Because mammals from widely different taxonomic groups share similar regulatory mechanisms for hormones and neurochemistry, it is reasonable to believe that selecting them for similar behavior – tameness – should alter those mechanisms, and the developmental pathways they govern, in similar ways.”[2]]

[fluffy]

True enough, but as far as I know all Caracal breeders in the US use African stock.

[Veto!]

My cat Daisy and I wish this pretty kitty a long and happy life.

[xoxox]

they probably revere this type of cat