Attempts to domesticate small wildcats other than F. cattus have failed: being both territorial predators and prey, they tend to be aggressively paranoid creatures. Having said that, who’s to say this wouldn’t be the second successfully domesticated felid species?
"Fuck off I don't like you, I'm happy out here, it's where the birds are"
Edit: A counterpoint, Matt Damon told an entertaining story about adopting a small cat that they found more or less in the jungle during a vacation, pretty injured but generally fighting to survive. She hung around and ate the food they gave her for a couple of weeks and they decided we have a cat now.
He thought that they would take her home, get her veterinary care, and she would become a little jungle-cat terror of the neighborhood, but he said that once they got her home she literally never went outside again.
Everything I've heard from my family, who grew up on a farm in the Chilean southern zone, they're pretty aggressive little guys. I think they're super cute, especially the melanistic ones, but pretty wild too.
19 Comments
Una@europe.pub · 21 pts · 340d
Can I pet her? mrrrreow meow meow :3
Also take a look at this little kitty I heard somewhere black footed cat is one of the deadliest cats on the planet look at this
Naz@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 340d
Dang. Invidious seems cool but it fails to load because it thinks I'm a bot.
No cat videos for me, I guess
BlueKey@fedia.io · 5 pts · 340d
The botcheck (Goaway) has a high false-positive rate. Just try to open the link again (not reloading the page).
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 340d
I've opened it 3 times. The botcheck is worthless.
BlueKey@fedia.io · 2 pts · 340d
Wow. Yes, it can be anoying. But luckily there are other Invidious instances:
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=nl8o9PsJPAQ
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=nl8o9PsJPAQ
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 339d
That's better, thank you — such an adorable little murderer.
Master@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 339d
What if they all think im a bot...
dingus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 339d
Are you sure you're not actually a bot? Get out of here, clanker!!!
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 3 pts · 340d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl8o9PsJPAQ
dingus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 340d
Confusing. It happened to me too. I'm just using a standard mobile browser and no VPN or anything.
sunflowercowboy@feddit.org · 5 pts · 340d
It has a high success rate in hunts. About 60% was the number I recall.
Una@europe.pub · 3 pts · 340d
Yeah, I think that is right, insane cute kitty :3
ea6927d8@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 340d
Cuteness overload.
MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 340d
Well, that's just begging to be domesticated!
the_q@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 340d
gnawmon@ttrpg.network · 6 pts · 340d
We're the ones actually being domesticated!!!!!
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 14 pts · 340d
Attempts to domesticate small wildcats other than F. cattus have failed: being both territorial predators and prey, they tend to be aggressively paranoid creatures. Having said that, who’s to say this wouldn’t be the second successfully domesticated felid species?
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social · 6 pts · 340d
"Fuck off I don't like you, I'm happy out here, it's where the birds are"
Edit: A counterpoint, Matt Damon told an entertaining story about adopting a small cat that they found more or less in the jungle during a vacation, pretty injured but generally fighting to survive. She hung around and ate the food they gave her for a couple of weeks and they decided we have a cat now.
He thought that they would take her home, get her veterinary care, and she would become a little jungle-cat terror of the neighborhood, but he said that once they got her home she literally never went outside again.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 340d
We have a cat like that. Spent the first 2 years of her life outside, and 13 years later she still has no desire to leave the house.
paranoidcyborg@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 340d
Everything I've heard from my family, who grew up on a farm in the Chilean southern zone, they're pretty aggressive little guys. I think they're super cute, especially the melanistic ones, but pretty wild too.
mrsemi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d