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.
Well, that’s just begging to be domesticated!
I’m pretty sure cats decided to pretend to be domesticated.
We’re the ones actually being domesticated!!!
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.
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.
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.
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