#I have seen domestic cats killed by cougars

[weirdtaxonomy]

The Olympic Cougar Project (a collaborative effort between feline conservation group Panthera and almost everyone tribe on the peninsula) have confirmed the death of two wild cougars. One by Port Angeles and one by Blynn. These towns are 1-2 hours away from the Cat Sanctuary.

Please please please PLEASE keep your cats indoors right now. H5N1 (HPAI, highly pathogenic avian influenza) is zoonotic to cats, and it is just as deadly for them. Additionally, if you have a way to keep your shoes away from your cat(s), or sanitize them after being out in the world (bleach footbath for example), a little biosecurity wouldn't hurt.

A sanctuary in Washington just lost 20 of their rescue big cats to this virus. It is not getting less dangerous for your cats this year than it was last.

It has ALWAYS been dangerous to let house cats free roam without supervision, but it's becoming dangerous right now to be taking them on leashes if they will have access to ground birds have recently been on, or water they have accessed. Catios might be okay, if they're covered and well-screened, but I would take a moment to subscribe to your local state ag department's email or phone alerts for HPAI in your area, and react accordingly even for covered outdoor areas.

Keep the Kitties Safe!

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

"Not sure if you’ll know anything about this but it’s worth a shot! So, in my conservation bio class today, we got to the topic of animals being extinct and the eastern mountain lion. I go to college in the mountains but according to my teacher many locals claim to have seen mountain lions and even a student has seen one. I was wondering, even if there is a small population of eastern mountain lions, would they only be taken off the extinct list only after proper evidence was given and they’re shown to be able to grow or is it likely a species like that is too small to come back from extinction?"

If it was able to be definitively proved that animals in the eastern mountain lion subspecies were still alive today, they'd no longer be considered extinct. That's all that goes into that decision. That doesn't mean they'd inherently have any protections under federal law or anything, however, because as an extinct subspecies they were delisted from the Endangered Species Act in 2018.

An analysis of over 100 credible studies covering over 100 years led US Fish and Wildlife to determine that eastern mountain lions have probably been extinct for decades - plausibly since before the Endangered Species Act was even passed. Here's their statement on what they found from a media release sent out in 2018 when the official de-listing occurred: "Accounts suggest that most eastern cougars disappeared in the 1800s, killed out of fear for human and livestock safety and were victims of massive deforestation and overharvesting of white-tailed deer, the cougar’s primary prey. The last records of eastern cougars are believed to be from Maine (1938) and New Brunswick (1932)"

But! That doesn't mean the reports of local cougars sightings are incorrect! (Although, they can be, people do tend to see smaller wildcats and immediately think mountain lion). Here's the thing: western cougar populations are recovering very well, and so a lot of documented cougar sightings in the eastern part of North America are thought to be western cougars dispersing eastward. There's good data for this in peer-reviewed studies, such as this one discussing the recolonization of southwest Saskatchewan and southeast Alberta from 2015.

Probably the most notable example of this long-range dispersal was a young male cougar who was hit by a car in Connecticut, of all places, in 2011. That's so far east of what was thought to be their current range that it was pretty widely assumed the cat had to be an escaped exotic pet. But no! Camera trap data confirmed that the same individual had been seen making his long trek, and genetic analysis confirmed that he was originally from the Black Hills population in North Dakota.

(Photo source)

A lot of cougar sightings in the Midwest and points further east are - as with the 2011 cougar - assumed by the media to be escaped captive animals. A couple of years ago I analyzed the last 20 years of publicly available data from advocacy orgs that track big cat escapes and attacks, and a large percentage of the sightings of loose cougars seemed likely to be dispersed wild animals: they didn't fit the patterns you see around captive exotic pet escapes nor did the cats behave like animals habituated to people, they almost always occurred in suburban developments that were situated right next to large patches of open land and/or protected areas, and they were generally within the geographic areas where dispersal has been increasingly documented. Most supposed cougars were seen once in passing, or only a few times, and generally never were a nuisance enough to be caught or killed (excepting the ones hunting domestic animals or the ones that got hit by cars). In some cases, it was really obvious they were wild: there was one incident in McGregor, MN in 2001 where a female cougar was found attacking a dog in a suburb right next to a wildlife preserve, and two very young cubs were sighted in the area a few days later. A lot of times, local wildlife officials couldn't confirm any formal reintroductions of cougars into the area and/or referred to historical data for eastern cougar sightings when discussing the most recent sightings of wild cats in the area - so with that ruled out by the easily accessible local experts, local media defaulted to "probably a pet."

Over the years, I think the general awareness that cougars are dispersing farther east has become somewhat more common due to major outlets like the New York Times covering stories like the 2011 dispersal. But as you mentioned, on a community level, it's still sort of like a cryptid sighting! People know that cougars don't exist outside of western North America and Florida anymore, so why do they keep seeing them?

So no, unfortunately, it's pretty unlikely Eastern mountain lions are extant at this point - but that doesn't mean that other mountain lions aren't expanding into the lands they used to roam.

[tisfan]

Title: A Thousand Words Written by: @tisfan 3023 Square: S5 Tony Stark/T’challa Rating: teen and up Triggers/warnings: none Tags: were creatures, Tony Stark Does What He Wants, Wakanda,  Created for: @tonystarkbingo Word count: 1897 Summary: Tony knows he’s not supposed to cross the border, but the call of a prize winning photograph is strong. When he finds his subject, things are more than they appear...

Fic for the Photographer / werecreature mood board

 “And how am I supposed to know where the Wakanda border is,” Tony Stark, award winning photographer, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, and self-proclaimed major annoyance, demanded. 

The guide only gave him one of those insufferable looks. “You will know,” he said. “And you must not venture over the border. Those who go to Wakanda often get sick. The disease will take its toll on your mind and body. If you even come back at all.”

Tony had used his considerable money and influence getting this far. One of his colleagues -- and his most loathed rival, if you wanted to pick nits -- had spotted a rare black panther. Keeping in mind that panthers were not, in fact, a real species at all, and Justin Hammer had all the keen insights of a brick, Tony was doubtful.

But the pictures of the great cat fleeing into the jungle had garnered national attention.

And Tony could take better pictures than ones of a blurry black cat. It might not even have been black, just bad lighting.

Whatever.

The point was, a melanistic tiger was a worthy photo subject, especially given how endangered tigers were, and that Tony could shine a spotlight -- metaphorically speaking -- on the species through some really good photos.

The problem was the creature seemed to live around the northern end of Lake Turkana. Which bordered on Wakanda. And Wakandans were very unwelcoming to visitors. Given that most of the rest of the continent had been invaded by northern Europeans and stripped of their rights and resources, and Wakanda had been spared that fate, Tony didn’t really blame them.

But that did mean that they wouldn’t give him permission to enter their country on a wild cougar chase.

He didn’t even get a meeting with the Wakandan ambassador himself; his message went through intermediaries, and all he got back was a no. No explanation or apologies. Just. no.  

Tony didn’t take no for an answer; he never had. It was both his best quality and his most annoying one.

He was going to get those pictures, with or without the Wakandans’ permission.

Of course, it would be easier if he could find the panther on the southern side of its territory. The Kenyan government had been all but falling over itself to accommodate him. Well, he’d have to hope.

Or sneak across.

“Why isn’t there any coffee from Wakanda,” Tony wondered, changing the subject. The guide wasn’t going to be going with him. Wildlife photo shoots were almost as dangerous as wartime shoots, and no one who could avoid it wanted to be that close to animals that might look at you like you were a snack. (Wartime photography was more dangerous, Tony knew for a fact, after spending three months as a prisoner of Ten Rings. If nothing else, a large cat wasn’t cruel. Just hungry. It wasn’t worth the cat’s time to keep Tony alive. If he was going to be kitty kibble, it would be over quickly, and he wouldn’t wake up from nightmares for more than four years now.) Tony’s mouth kept going without conscious input from his brain, because that’s what it did. “Kenya AA is some of the best coffee in the world. Burundi is an excellent bean. Why-- is there single source Wakanda bean?”

The guide gave Tony a condescending look. “The Wakandans do not grow coffee,” he said.

“Waste,” Tony muttered. “Well, I’ll stay out of their territory. No coffee, now that’s a hardship.” He would know Wakanda borders by all the sleeping guards. Got it.

*

He recalled the conversation, looking down at the grass. He didn’t know much about grass, really, except that it was green (usually) and growing on the ground (primarily) and that sometimes people made a fuss about how long it was in the yard.

You will know the Wakanda border when you see it.

Yeah, okay, so why didn’t anyone bother to mention the grass was fucking purple? You’d think that would be a relatively easy thing to say. Purple grass means do not trespass here. 

And it wasn’t just purple, Tony noted, kneeling. It was glowing. Very faintly, in the growing darkness, but it did make the small area very, very noticable.

Probably more so at night than during the day. Purple grass, it could be a thing, right?

Unfortunately for the purple grass, the damn panther had been seen-- well, just on the other side of that hill. Tony’d spotted it out in the plains, running along after some long-legged deer. Antelopes. Whatever. Probably not a gnu, except that Tony wouldn’t know what a gnu looked like if it bit him. 

He’d gotten a few action shots, but even with the telephoto lense, he really hadn’t gotten any good, personal shots.

He was just going to have to ignore the guide and cross over the border. Right? Wouldn’t hurt anything. In, take some pictures, out. No one had to know.

Stepping into Wakanda territory shouldn’t have felt like taking a step on the moon, but somehow, it sort of did.

Everything seemed softer, more natural, better. Fresher. Tony was obviously being influenced by the mythos and mystery that surrounded the place. Stupid, primitive monkey brain. He ignored the sense of awe and foreboding and crept toward the jungle.

He’d seen the great cat enter the trees, dragging its kill-- surely it would be too occupied with its meal to notice him. Animals didn’t hunt for sport, and eating an already killed and tasty gazelle was a better use of calories than catching one scrawny human photographer whose muscle tissue was flavored by cheeseburgers and kale smoothies.

He tugged on the night vision goggles, which brightened the landscape up considerably, and it wasn’t long before he saw the cat, laying on the branch of a tree, overseeing a small clearing. Tony was just to the edge of the woods and found himself a blind spot to sit, upwind of the great cat, before he noticed--

There were already people in that clearing, sitting outside of a low tent. One was kneeling near the gazelle, the other was poking at a small box that looked very much like a microwave, but couldn’t be, because no one dragged a microwave out into the jungle, did they?

Tony turned his camera carefully; with people nearby he had to be even more careful about making noise. A cat might be evaded. People were predation hunters. If they thought he’d desecrated their country or something, they would track him down.

One woman, one girl. The cat was watching them, and they obviously knew it was there. They were speaking a language that Tony didn’t know, and had never heard. But they were addressing some of their remarks to the cat.

Maybe that was it, Tony decided. Some cultures raised hunting dogs, or falcons, and those animals, over time, had grown into different colors and sizes that arose in nature. Look at the black lab, to the pekinese, to the dachshund. No one would think they all originally came from wolves. The black panther could be nothing more than a specially trained domesticated cat.

Which would be fascinating, but he’d have to consider very, very carefully if he wanted to publish those pictures, since it would be immediately obvious that he’d trespassed to get them. Didn’t matter. He’d decide later. Pictures now. He would be no sort of photographer at all if he let the opportunity pass him by. 

Tony took dozens of pictures; of the two women, one with black hair, the other with white, but both beautiful. Of the cat, lounging in the tree. Of the dead gazelle, neck neatly snapped but unmarred by the cat’s teeth otherwise.

Finally, whatever meal the one woman was cooking was done, and she said something to the other -- the smells were amazing. Tony’s stomach reminded him that he hadn’t eaten in a while, but he didn’t dare even try to get one of his granola bars out.

He focused on the meal. One, two… three. Three plates. The woman hesitated, sighed, and then made a fourth plate.

Tony blinked, then realized to his horror, that the cat was-- 

Coming right at him.

Tony took several pictures by reflex alone, which is the only reason why, later, he could convince himself that he hadn’t gone insane.

“You may as well come to dinner,” the cat-- the CAT? Said, walking toward him, body moving, and then shifting up onto two legs, and finally, a man stood there in front of him, noble and strong and pure and-- smiling?

“Tony Stark. I should have known you would not be so easily disuaded.”

Tony blinked and looked up at the man. There was something cat-like about him in his grace and figure. Very long, dexterous fingers reached down. “Come on up out of there. We’ve known you were there, the whole time. Do not think you can sneak up on the tribe of the Panther God. One of these days, it will get you into trouble.”

Tony reached for the man’s hand, not entirely sure if he was dreaming, or hallucinating in the last moments of his life. 

“You know me?”

“I am T’challa,” the man said. “You requested an audience with me, to plead your case. Of course I know who petitions me.”

“Your majesty,” Tony said. And then, because his brain was still running full cycle, he blurted out-- “You’re like, a werecat?”

T’challa scoffed, and the girl behind him made an even ruder noise. “No. We are not cursed monsters, like in your horror movies,” T’challa said. “It is a gift from the gods.”

“I don’t believe in God,” Tony said automatically.

“That’s all right, Mr. Stark,” the girl said, bringing a mug of something fragrant to drink. “God doesn’t believe in you either.”

“What happens now?”

“Now? Now you drink, and you have dinner, and after dinner, we will return you across the border,” T’challa said. He pressed the cup into Tony’s hand, and there was something in his eyes that didn’t allow for refusal. “You will, unfortunately, contract one of the jungle fevers. You will wake up in a few days, and you will have forgotten all about this night. You have seen nothing. You will remember nothing.”

“What--”

“It’s that, or we could kill you,” the girl said.

“Shuri--”

“I’m just saying, there are options.”

“But I--” Tony protested. 

“We are not stealing your memories,” T’challa said, and led him over to the fire. “We are only taking back that which you first stole from us. It is fair, and right, and you will never miss it.”

It was fair.

But-- the things he’d seen, that he’d photographed. They couldn’t be lost. And maybe they wouldn’t be. His camera uploaded automatically every ninety minutes. If he could just delay, the pictures would be on a Stark satellite and then downloaded to his home network. 

“All right,” he said. “Dinner, and you can tell me about your gods.”

When Shuri rolled her eyes, Tony added, “Does it matter? I won’t remember it anyway. What possible harm can it do for me to know, just for tonight?”

T’challa laughed, warm and rich and appealing. “You are a stubborn man,” he said. “I like that. Sit, share a meal, and listen to our tales.”

Ninety minutes…

Surely, the stories would take ninety minutes.

[rorykillmore]

Hey I know you touched on it in spears ask but it was so fascinating hearing you talk about her, can you say more about like. How denny has effected villanelle and how its changed her outlook and approach to some things (like the oksana plot for example...)

to use a weird analogy, i always think of denny!villanelle as like. you know when people adopt like, tigers or cougars and swear up and down that they’re domesticated for years and then one day, like a switch flipping, the cat turns on them and mauls them? yeah,

of course it is a little complicated than that because for all of my jokes, she is a person, but...

okay let’s start with GRACE because although they are about to really fuck up her life pretty soon, GRACE has actually been an essential component in villanelle’s. relative stability. villanelle is... she doesn’t have the pathology of a legit serial killer where she “needs” to kill, necessarily, but she desperately needs stimulation, excitement, action, violence, etc. without that kind of outlet, she gets bored, and when she’s bored is when she tends to... seriously misbehave, to say the least.

so ironically (given what’s about to go down), being a part of something that keeps her busy and knows how to use her skills very effectively has been a big part of what kept her. grounded enough in the other parts of her life to be able to do things like bond with other people! it’s also helped that, up until recently, villanelle hasn’t really perceived GRACE as as much of an invasive threat to her as the twelve were, doesn’t feel like she’s on as tight of a “leash”, and has thus been a little more relaxed in her position there..... her mistake,

but another major facet of her life on denny that has undoubtedly had a huge effect on her is also just... the simultaneous normalcy of it! for awhile it’s worked out that she’s gotten to have this exciting life as an assassin while also like... having consistent and normalized? relationships? not just vague acquaintances that she sees in passing every day, but like, actual consistent, friendly contact with other people. the opportunity to have “friends”, which she might treat very flippantly as a concept, but none the less it’s something she’s never really had before. and that’s fascinating to me! villanelle gets to (or has gotten to, at least) hang around people she enjoys and is fond of without feeling threatened and without having that disrupted for long enough to actually get... attached to the concept, and even to legitimately bond with a couple of those people in strange, stilted ways

fox and ruby are definitely among the highest on the list for being worth mentioning in that regard. you wanted me to talk about the whole oksana thing so just briefly i’ll say that that was incredibly... like, formative to hers and fox’s relationship. that’s something she doesn’t tell anyone about, generally, and there aren’t a lot of surviving people who even knew her from back then, so the fact that fox experienced that part of her really contributes to making her feel like he’s at least starting to know... all of her. which is really jarring and rare.

ruby, in contrast, knows hardly anything about villanelle at the end of the day (though to be fair, at the same time, hunter and i have talked about the fact that ruby simultaneously... knows some of the most well-hidden and important parts of villanelle), but their relationship has been so essential in villanelle trying to figure out how experiencing empathy... works. masky and weiss have done that too, but that happened in a completely different context and one that was kind of negative for all three of them at the time, like when you relate to someone in a really... bad way. ruby stands out as the person villanelle actually tries to empathize with because she wants to, and that’s a really huge thing. there’s a lot of modern research about people with low empathy paired with other psychopathic or sociopathic traits having to need to choose to be empathetic (whereas most people are to some degree empathetic by default) rather than just not being capable of it at all, so i try to incorporate that when i’m building her more positive relationships

and also while i’m talking about how her relationships have affected her, i need to of course talk about eve because, OBVIOUSLY. eve is so important to villanelle, probably the most important thing to villanelle. i think if eve hadn’t been around we probably, to some extent, would have seen villanelle more volatile, because she’d be looking for... some way to fill that hole in her life. but instead, her and eve have been actually kind of... coexisting. of course it’s not an objectively ideal situation because eve has like! no kind of emotional support system! so it was very easy for villanelle to just whisk her away for Murder Adventures and start nudging eve into an increasingly dark place, but at the same time, i think eve sometimes pushes villanelle into a lighter one. villanelle wants to have a life with eve, wants for that to work SO BADLY that there’s a lot that she would probably be willing to try to do at this point (not that i’m saying all of it would work out). as it is, she is at least... making a genuine effort to get eve to trust her, which entails trying to be honest and aware of eve’s feelings, so that’s a start!

things working out as they have also just means that like. villanelle kind of, sort of, in a sense has this one thing she really really wants, on top of having a job she likes, and a life she likes. overall, up until recently, she’s! probably been the closest to happy as she’s capable of being! barring some of her usual disconnect/loneliness/frustrations because of that, because of course the lot of the people she likes aren’t people she can really, fully be herself around, for obvious reasons (the exceptions being eve and konstantin and kind of fox). and i think that’s something villanelle’s had deep, underlying issues with since anna (who was the woman she was in love with when she was a teenager, long, messy story). but. that aside, the bottom line being that villanelle, for most of her life on denny, hasn’t really wanted for much in either her professional or her personal life.  and that’s kept her from lashing out or being as unpredictable as... she sometimes can be, which also means that the relationships she’s had so far have had the time and space for development, and that she’s had the time and space to learn... maybe how to care about people, kind of!

all of this having been said, i DON’T think villanelle has questioned her morals or changed her outlook on that at all. she’s undoubtedly had some development in other areas, but she is still pretty rigidly a remorseless killer who enjoys her job. nothing has happened to change that, and outside of the people she’s close to, she doesn’t really... view other people as people, still. i think graceplot as a whole is interesting for her because it DOES have a lot of potential to force her into some more emotional development/make her face a lot of inner conflict as well as outer conflict, but also like!! it has a lot of potential to push her into circumstances where she’s much more... feral! at the end of the day, she’s not relatively well-behaved because she’s changed (although obviously in some ways she has), but because her life is convenient, and she’s content with it. if you throw a whole entire wrench into that and turn everything upside down and make her desperate, i... mean, i don’t know, she can be incredibly unpredictable. just like that “tamed” tiger, no matter how likeable and funny and endearing villanelle can be, you always have to remember that she could decide to bite

but she’s also not even the person she was when she first got to denny, so i think all of these elements are going to combine in a way that’ll be really fun to play and hopefully really fun to watch, whatever happens!!

[petnews2day]

Retirees stunned after spotting giant cat on CCTV at their regional WA property

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Retirees stunned after spotting giant cat on CCTV at their regional WA property

A retired West Australian couple has been left stunned after a “huge” black cat strolled past their house, prompting a rush to take photos of the footprints and check footage from their CCTV camera.

Key points:

A retired couple has spotted a huge black cat on CCTV at their WA property

It’s the latest in a long line of ‘big cat’ sightings across regional Australia

But the WA Feral Cat Working Group says feral cats can be huge and it’s likely this one is just that

“That ain’t no domestic cat,” Helen Gardiner exclaimed as she re-watched��the security footage on her computer on the property near Lancelin, about 90 minutes north of Perth.

Wayne and Helen Gardiner were pottering around their house one morning, and Ms Gardiner was in her home office when something out the window caught her eye.

“I was just sitting here on the computer and then got up to do something and saw this big black thing outside the window,” Ms Gardiner said.

Helen Gardiner was working in her home office when something outside caught her eye.(ABC Midwest and Wheatbelt: Chris Lewis)

Not fully believing what she was seeing she yelled to her husband to have a look.

“When I’ve come out onto the verandah and I could see it clearly just over here about 50–60 metres away I was pretty excited too because that was no feral cat, that’s huge,” Mr Gardiner said.

Wayne Gardiner says he has seen plenty of feral cats in his time but nothing like this.(ABC Midwest and Wheatbelt: Chris Lewis)

The couple remarked on how calm it seemed: it did not run away, it just stopped to briefly look at Mr Gardiner before walking away up the hill.

“I took some photos of the prints in the sand so I had some evidence,” Mr Gardiner said.

As he started walking back to his house, he suddenly remembered he had CCTV cameras and quickly went in to see if the camera captured the large cat.

“We must have played it so many times,” Ms Gardiner said.

“Just could not believe what we were looking at.”

After spotting the cat, Mr Gardiner took a photo of its footprint.(Supplied: Wayne Gardiner)

Monsters of the bush

There have been a number of reported sightings of large black cats throughout Australia, prompting some enduring urban myths, while feral cats have been known to grow to a huge size.

But few witnesses have managed to capture the creatures on camera until now.

One theory is that during World War II the US military brought cougar mascots to Australia and some of them escaped or were released, but there’s been no hard evidence of this.

Feral cats getting ‘bigger and bigger’

WA Feral Cat Working Group executive officer Judy Dunlop said it was not unusual for cats in the wild to reach an intimidating size, describing them as monsters of the bush.

Having examined the footage, she said it was highly likely the cat was a larger-than-average feral.

“This beast is going around killing our native wildlife and getting bigger and bigger,” she said.

“I’m happy to be wrong because it’s a great story.”

Mr Gardiner said the cat he saw looked healthy and there was no need for panic.

“From what I saw there’s no need for the public to panic over that quiet animal,” he said.

“Hopefully it’s still out there somewhere living comfortably.”

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[kpopcametoslayourlives]

12 Days With EXO

Summary; In which Suho takes you out to a fancy Christmas dinner.

"How are you liking it so far my love?" You looked over to Suho who had asked you the question before smiling at him. "I'm loving it." You told him honestly. The two of you were in a restaurant on the outskirts of town called The Blue Palace. It was a high-end restaurant that had you cringing the first time Suho took you here and you saw the prices. Although Suho had soon told you that money wasn't a big issue for him you still felt bad. You weren't dating Suho because of his money or the connections he or his family has. You were with him because you loved him. The Blue Palace was the kind of restaurant Suho took you to on only very special occasions. The first time was on your first date, the second being valentine's day, the third was your birthday, and now it was because it was Christmas. You loved all the effort that Suho puts in to making sure you know he cares about you, whether it was something as big as this or something as small as making you soup when you were sick, or giving you back rubs when you can't fall asleep, or when he puts socks on your feet in the middle of the night so your feet won't get cold. You loved it all. And of course, you made sure to show him that you loved and cared for him as well. You made him breakfast every morning and had a packed lunch for him to take to work every day. You did his laundry and ironed his work suits so that was he looked good for work every morning. You kissed him goodbye every morning before he left for work and greeted him as soon as he got home, always having a nice hot meal for him when he got back. A lot of these things seemed to be a bit old school but it's how you showed him that you cared for him, it's how the people at his work know that he was loved at home and that he had a good life. Out of all the things that Suho would do for you, a few domestic things here and there wouldn't kill you. And it's not as though that was all you did either. You had a successful job as an interior designer while Suho was the head doctor to a hospital that he himself owned. Although when you two first met you two had barley started college, meeting at some after party after winning a basketball game. And believe it or not, the two of you hated each other at first. He was the rich kid who came from a wealthy background while you were the girl who had jumped from house to house as a kid and sometimes had to live on the street until you got a student loan and started living in the dorms on campus. You had a rough life and were a rebel while he had it easy but was also a rebel. Perhaps it was the rebellious side the two of you had that made you two so perfect for each other in the end. "Would you like to dance before we have diner?" Suho asked as he held out his hand for you to take. You smiled graciously as you took his offered hand. "Why I'd love to." You said in an overly posh voice, smiling as he led you to the middle of the dance floor where they were just starting the Waltz. Hand in hand Suho took the lead and glided across the dancefloor with you. Spinning and dipping when the time called for it but dancing just as elegantly as ever. You never would have pictured yourself like this if this was a few years ago. You were unsophisticated and most definitely not a lady of any kind, especially with a mouth and attitude like yours. Suho was the one who taught you how to dance and be more proper, despite having an attitude nearly as bad as yours. You both blamed it on the way you both were raised and molded from the people around you but none the less, the two of you were like cat and mouse at first sight and it took a lot of effort from both of you to make what you had work, that's probably another reason why you two were so great for each other. "Have I mentioned how beautiful you look tonight?" Suho asked as the tempo of the music changed to an even slower tune. You wrapped both hands around his neck as you two began to slow dance. "Only about a hundred times tonight Suho." You said as you smiled. "Then now it's one hundred and one. You look stunning y/n." He said as he kissed you in the middle of the dancefloor, not caring about the amount of people that were surrounding you both and watching you as you danced and now kissed. You smiled up at him after he pulled away. "Thank you darling, you look handsome tonight as well. As a matter of fact, I'm actually quite jealous of the way some of the women here are looking at you." You said as you took a glance around, frowning at all the hungry stares some of these cougars were giving your man. "You don't have to worry about them, tonight I'm all yours. Tonight, and forever." "Tonight, and always?" "Always." After a few more dances you and Suho decided that you’d had enough dancing for now and made your way to your table. Not even a minute later did a waitress and waiter show up by your side. "Hello and welcome to the Blue Palace, may we offer you a bottle of one of our finest wine to get you started?" The waitress said as a man next to her showed off the bottle of red wine. Suho looked at you for a moment, silently asking if this was okay with you. You gave him a happy nod. "Yes please, may we also get your soup of the day to get us started and the shrimp alfredo pasta for my lovely lady and the steak with grilled shrimp for myself as our main course?" Suho said, ordering for the both of you. It was the same thing you got every time, so of course he knew just what you'd want. "Of course, sir, right away." The waitress said before taking her leave. The two of you made small talk as you both waited for your food to come. You had talked for hours all night about anything and everything. Even though you two had known each other for so long there were still stories that you two haven't had the chance to share just yet so there was always something for the two of you to talk about, sometimes even recalling fond memories the two of you shared. There was so much history between the two of you now that you were sure that nothing would ever be able to pull you two apart. There would never be another Suho for you and there would never be another you for Suho. You were it for each other. "Are you ready to go home now? It's getting rather late don’t you think?" Suho asked as looked at his watch. It was 23:37 now, almost midnight, and you still had about another hour drive till you made it back home. You nodded your head and you pushed your chair back and stood up, Suho following suit. "Go wait by the front door, I'll go get our coats." Suho said while you nodded. You were waiting for no longer than five minutes before you saw him coming back with both of your coats. He was only a few feet away when he was stopped by some red head that clung to his arm like her life depended on it. "Suho, darling, it's been years since I've seen you last. Whatever are you doing here? You're not alone are you? Because if you are I can keep you company." You frowned at the nerve of this bitch. Just who the hell did she think she was? Suho frowned at the contact she made with him and merely brushed off her fingers from his arm. "Sorry Yui, I actually did come here with someone, and as for not seeing you for the past few years, it's because of her. You see after meeting y/n, whose right there by the way." He gestured to you, "I wanted to cut off our engagement, after all it was an arranged engagement, not true love. I cut off what we had and asked out y/n right away, knowing that I no longer had any obligation to be loyal to my supposed fiancé who wasn't so courteous as to show me the same respect, seeing as you went through just about half the college campus back then. So as for you keeping me company, I'm going to have to decline because, you see, my wife is just simply a hundred times hotter than you, and I'd much rather have her company than a dogs company." He said before walking up to you and helping you put on your jacket. You couldn't stop the shit eating grin on your face as you heard the red head screech before stomping away. "I can't believe that was Yui, she had blonde hair the last time I saw her. No wonder I didn't recognize her as your ex fiancé." You said before you took his offered arm and began making your way to the front door and waited for the valet to come with the car. All Suho did was shrug his shoulders. "I could honestly care less about her." Your grin got bigger at his words. "Yes, I could tell, considering the way you basically just told her to shove off. It was actually quite entertaining to see her face turn as red as her hair." Suho frowned. "That was an atrocious shade, I don’t know why she picked it." He said just as the valet returned with the car, he held the passenger door open for you, waiting on you to get in. You laughed at his words, the Suho you knew and loved the most was the rebellious man who spoke his mind, not giving a damn about what anyone else said or thought. Oh yes, you truly loved this man. Every side of him.

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Murder suspect seen with tiger in west Houston arrested on evading charges HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Authorities have arrested the man who was seen taking in a tiger that was spotted roaming loose in a Houston neighborhood on Sunday. That tiger has yet to be located. Multiple police sources identified the man as 28-year-old Victor Cuevas. Cuevas, who is currently out on bond on an unrelated murder charge, is known to possess several exotic animals. The search for Cuevas began Sunday after he evaded police. But on Monday, he was taken into custody to the Fort Bend County jail. He was supposed to turn himself in at 8:15 p.m. at the Harris County jail. Instead, Cuevas’ lawyer said Houston police picked him up at his mother’s house in Richmond and took him to the Fort Bend County jail. UPDATE #2: Victor Hugo Cuevas is in custody. The whereabouts of the tiger are not yet known. Anyone with information on the tiger is urged to contact HPD Major Offenders at 713-308-3100.#hounews https://t.co/TkaAtK45MC — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) May 11, 2021 Cuevas is charged with felony evading arrest after allegedly fleeing from HPD Monday. Cuevas’ lawyer, Michael Elliott, was furious as he talked to the media Monday night. “Fifteen minutes before he leaves to surrender, (HPD) go and arrest him, and the result is they get to keep him there for 10 days now,” said Elliott. Elliott said the tiger is not his client’s but that he knows the owner. He added that he and his client were apparently working with authorities to locate the tiger and the owner. WATCH: ‘It’s not his tiger’ Attorney of alleged tiger owner says “There’s a lot of misunderstandings and miscommunications and a lot of things put out there falsely that’s very troubling,” Elliott said. “First off, The Houston Police Department here. I know they’re trying to do their job. Everyone wants to know about the tiger and their safety. Make no mistake, there’s no crime of having a tiger in the state of Texas.” In the City of Houston, there is an ordinance that says you can’t have a tiger. But, as Elliott points out, it is a civil matter, not a criminal matter. On Sunday, Houston police responded to a call about a tiger in a neighbor’s front yard on Ivy Wall Drive, in the Highway 6 and Memorial area. When officers arrived, the alleged owner was loading up the tiger in his Jeep. “The owner put the tiger in a white SUV and drove off from the scene, there was a brief pursuit, and the man got away with the tiger,” said HPD Commander Ron Borza, who focuses on animal abuse cases for the department. “My main concern right now is focused on finding him, and finding the tiger, because what I don’t want him to do is harm the tiger. We have plenty of places where we can take the tiger and he can spend the rest of his life.” Video of the incident shows off-duty Waller County Sheriff’s Sergeant Wes Manion coming to the aid of his neighbors, and trying to keep the tiger at bay. Moments later, a man in a white shirt emerges from his house and grabs the tiger by what appears to be a collar. “An individual came out and said, ‘Don’t kill it, don’t kill it,'” recalled Manion, who also lives in the area. “I didn’t know who this individual was, told him to get in the house. He stated that was his tiger, and I instructed him to take his tiger back inside, which he did.” HPD believes the man in the white shirt was Cuevas, who later put the tiger in his white Jeep Cherokee and fled from the home at a high rate of speed. Our Animal Cruelty Unit, along with @BARC_Houston are currently investigating the incident in which a tiger was seen at 1103 Ivy Wall Drive about 8 p.m. on Sunday (May 9). The male owner was seen escorting the tiger to the residence then putting it into his vehicle. 1/3 — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) May 10, 2021 Monday morning, both HPD’s Animal Cruelty Unit and Houston’s Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care (BARC) were investigating the incident. A sweep of the house yielded no additional animals. However, ABC13 reviewed multiple Instagram videos and pictures on Cuevas’ account which indicated he is no stranger to exotic animals. The videos show him playing with a baby bear, feeding it with a bottle, and giving the bear kisses in his home. There are also videos of at least two monkeys. Cuevas is seen taking one monkey with him while he was having dental work done, and taking another monkey to a convenience store, where the clerk was not pleased. In addition, several videos show Cuevas cuddling with a young tiger. Police say even though it is against city regulation to keep a tiger, this particular tiger does appear well fed. WATCH: HPD reveals the tiger’s owner has been out on bond in a murder case The murder charge tied to Cuevas involves an alleged shooting at a strip shopping center in Fort Bend County. According to records, Cuevas is accused of shooting and killing a man in July 2017 and is out on a $125,000 bond. ABC13 spoke with Cuevas’ attorney on the matter. He said his client is up to date on all court appearances as it relates to the murder charge. Meanwhile, back in the west Houston neighborhood, Cuevas and his girlfriend are described as living a quiet, fairly secluded life. “They didn’t bother anybody,” neighbor Jorge Ramos said. “They are very private, I have to say.” He said this is not the first time he’s seen a wild animal at the residence. WATCH: Neighbor once saw monkey at home where tiger was seen roaming “I did notice one time, and this is something interesting, that I was walking by my driveway. There was a capuchin monkey that showed up in the window,” Ramos recalled. “I figured, ‘OK, this is a small animal. It could be domesticated.’ But I never thought they would hold a tiger in their house.” Previous wild encounters in Houston While Houston for the most part may be a sprawling cosmopolitan city, we’ve had our fair share of tiger instances. In May 2019, a tiger was found caged in a southwest Houston garage. Houston police arrested the former owner, Brittany Garza, who at the time faced animal cruelty charges. She told ABC13 at the time that she had raised the tiger, whom she called “Rajah,” since he was a cub. But once Rajah started getting big, she knew it was time to find him a new place to live. Garza claimed two years ago that she had made arrangements with a sanctuary in College Station and put the animal inside a friend’s home until the transfer could be made. But someone else found the tiger in the garage before he could be moved. The tiger was eventually taken to Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Murchison, Texas, where he is said to be living the rest of his life. FROM MAY 2019: Tiger owner arrested for leaving wild cat caged at vacant Houston house Can you even own exotic animals in Texas or Houston city limits? We looked at this back in 2019 as well and found that, in Texas, owners of “dangerous wild animals” must register with their municipality or county animal office or sheriff. A dangerous animal includes a lion, tiger, ocelot, cougar, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, bobcat, lynx, serval, caracal, hyena, bear, coyote, jackal, baboon, chimpanzee, orangutan and gorilla. SEE ALSO: How did a cow end up on the East Freeway? However, municipalities can also ban ownership of these animals. And for anyone hoping to own a dangerous wild animal in Houston city limits, no can do. It is illegal. Violations are misdemeanors punishable by fines of $500 to $2,000. Texas’ exotic pet laws: The furry friends you can’t have in Houston You can read more about the laws pertaining to wild animals in Section IV of this website. You can also find more on dangerous wild animals from the Texas State Law Library. TIMELINE: Houston area exotic pet incidents since 1998 Animal encounters: That time a gator was on the Fred Hartman bridge Follow Courtney Fischer on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Follow Miya Shay on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Copyright © 2021 KTRK-TV. 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I'm a lil sad, do you have any cute/fluffy Clanya shifter au head canons?

Don’t be sad! Cute headcanons coming your way!

- Before Raven finds out about shifters (but after Clarke and Anya become an item), Raven and Anya sit opposite each other at a table one day. Raven has been an annoying little menace, teasing Anya for her bed-head. Anya’s revenge involves staring Raven dead in the eyes, and slowly knocking a glass off a table, much in the way that cats do. Raven is unnerved, Clarke can’t stop laughing and kisses Anya for being adorable. Raven is even more unnerved. 

- Anya purrs. She refuses to acknowledge such a thing. “I’m not a domestic cat, Clarke, I don’t purr.” Clarke doesn’t respond with words, just reaches up and scratches behind Anya’s ears and smiles at the resulting purr.

- Whenever its cold and they’re sleeping, Anya will shift so Clarke can snuggle against her. She always curls her tail around her protectively. 

- Also on the note of messing with Raven, before Clarke knew that the puma in her garden is Anya or even a shifter at all, Raven comes to visit and meets her one morning. 

It becomes such routine, so second nature to her that she talks almost daily to a cougar and it seems to react to her words, that she forgets just how bizarre it truly is. Its not until Raven comes to visit that she’s reminded.

“Claaaarke. There’s a fucking pokemon on your back porch.” Raven is standing in front of the porch door in nothing but her sleep shirt and boy shorts and although she normally has no shame, she’s surprisingly unnerved by the gaze of the animal through the glass. She feels…bare, on display and the creature seems to be scrutinizing her. 

Clarke however only laughs. “I tried to tell you but oh nooo I was just exaggerating, I was just being a confused city girl trying to get used to the country wildlife.” 

“Clarke isn’t this like, dangerous? That’s a killing machine if ever I’ve seen one. It looks like it wants to eat me.” Raven walks away from the door, but she can’t turn away from the animal’s gaze, trapped in the unblinking stare that sends fear shivering up her spine. Clarke shrugs as she hands over a plate of pancakes to Raven and nudges her towards the table. “It hasn’t tried to get me yet and I leave the door open most evenings and its never come inside. It acts like a big kitten most of the time. I’ve taken to calling it Rusty though I don’t think it likes that.”

Not long after this happens, Raven runs into Anya at a coffee shop, this time with Anya as a human. Raven tries to flirt (because who wouldn’t) and Anya just can’t take her serious because all she can think of is that Raven sleeps in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shirt and striped shorts and is terrified of her big cat form. 

- Anya has a lot of fun flirting with Clarke in human form before they get together. Just here and there, when they pass each other jogging or when they’re both suspiciously getting coffee at the same time. She just can’t help it.

- After the big reveal of Shifters and Clarke and Anya are properly together, Raven becomes curious about just how much like a cat Anya is and devises an experiment using a large stuffed toy filled with catnip. Clarke comes home to find her couch ripped to shreds, catnip everywhere, Raven standing on the kitchen island terrified and Anya in her Puma form rolling about on her back purring like mad. 

- Anya may or may not struggle to drink water from a glass. Coffee, juice, other beverages - no problem. But water, she’s so used to lapping from the river as a puma, is just a mental block. Clarke ends up leaving a saucer of it out at night so Anya can drink in puma form.

- When they’re lounging around in human form, sometimes Anya curls her hands like she does with her paws in cat form. It can hurt her wrists and she doesn’t notice she’s doing it most of the time so Clarke makes sure to hold her hands whenever she can.

- Re: the Rusty thing, other shifters find out about it because Raven starts talking about it and y’know what? She ain’t even mad. She got the girl, and what a girl she is! Let them laugh over a silly nickname.

- Clarke gets drunk one night at a shifter festival in the woods (bonfires and food and booze and music - its a great time) and although Anya is a little drunk herself, she’s still able to scoop Clarke up and throw her over her shoulder in a fireman’s lift. Clarke swoons because oh man, how couldn’t she and as they’re walking through the crowds back to the house Clarke is yelling at everyone about how much she loves her strong beautiful catgirl. 

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