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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsCouple who bought sickly kitten from local zoo now live with 90lb puma
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/couple-who-bought-sickly-kitten-12219965Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)mindem
(1,580 posts)It must sound like a Harley when it purrs.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)go back and he looks a little wild in the eyes. That's when someone is about to lose an arm. And I darn sure wouldn't try to bathe the beautiful big cat without some serious medication (for both of us). I've been through that with some much smaller cats.
MFM008
(19,827 posts)A bigger box.
Cardboard that is....
It's a cat thing....
sdfernando
(4,947 posts)sure it looks cute and all but a Puma is a wild animal and will act as such at some point. Maybe not on them but on someone else. I'd have to give it back to the zoo. The liability is too great.
brush
(53,957 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,526 posts)I'd be investigating wildlife preserves to find kitty a new, more appropriate home.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)I think the Puma is beautiful but have never really understood the desire some people have to try to make a pet out of a wild animal.
nolabear
(42,001 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,923 posts)It's tamed from growing up with humans, but that does not make it as safe as a domesticated cat or dog -- and even they sometimes turn on people. (Without going into a debate about specific dog breeds, there is one out there that is famous for suddenly turning and killing or maiming nearby humans. And that is still a domesticated dog.)
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niyad
(113,714 posts)all.
dhill926
(16,377 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,927 posts)Like any other cat - when the ears are down and back the cat is annoyed or angry but when they're forward the cat is just alert or interested.
Martin Eden
(12,881 posts)All three of them.
benld74
(9,911 posts)nolabear
(42,001 posts)She was so lost. She had bonded with him and had no idea how to be wild and then when he realized he had a full grown mountain lion he asked the program to take her. She was sweet, badly nourished, lonely in a cage (it was long ago enough that the enclosure wasn't very stimulating though we tried constantly to give her things to do) and dangerous as hell. I still have a scar where she punched a hole through my hand when I made a stupid move and she could get to me through the enclosure. All she was doing was grabbing at her dinner but let me tell you, those claws are not decorative.
Poor baby. I can't imagine it ending well, no matter how much attention they're getting now or how cool they think it is.
Btw I have some sympathy for them wanting to get a kitten out of a bad situation.