#large cat breeds

[kagoutiss]

kittyfies them i guess,,,,

[jezunya]

Summer is the time when Rory stretches out and reminds me that he is, in fact, kind of a lorge kitty

Cat pics before I head off to bed. Good night!

[tearlessrain]

I do lowkey love both oriental shorthairs and bengals I just can't personally justify buying a purebred cat when the local shelter is constantly full of them.

[grugposting]

KITTY BEAM ACTIVATE

[yrlocalghost]

for all the issues i have with my mom, it is cool of her that she set up and altar with offerings to our animals that have passed for day of the dead

[viatrix-glow]

*catifies ur twsts* (and my oc) 🤲🏽

[eachuisge-cc]

I'd love to not put pintos in Bruma because medieval roman horses seemed to mostly be precursors to breeds that don't come in pinto (barbs, camargues, maybe contemporary iberian breeds and arabians a bit) but they're straight up labelled "paint horse" and referred to as such in dialogue so my hands are tied on this one.

[agent-oo-z]

Hello I just needed everyone to see my handsome boy George. He’s a rescue cat but we think he might have some serval somewhere in his lineage because boy is MASSIVE. Like two feet long from tail to nose. Big paws. Large boy

[weaselle]

i think a very telling point about modern western society is

we have an industry that people pay to spread poison and torture devices around to kill mice and cockroaches and rats and snakes and things and we also have an industry that people pay to breed and sell mice and cockroaches and rats and snakes and things

and you will find both of these businesses in the same town

[kagoutiss]

quickly everyone right now tell me what cat breeds you think sheik & impa & ganon would be. this is not at all important i just want opinions

[sarasa-cat]

Still in a state of zonked out misery

The allergies this year. Wtf?

My face looks like it was punched.

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Add in the extra misery of not having good sleep for the past two months for reasons mostly out of my control (good sleep should return this Saturday night, hopefully, when a whole bunch of new furniture finnnnnnally arrives).

And then there is the recovery from ??? Which left my digestive system in a bad place (now recovered although I am still on a medically strict/controlled diet but slowly adding safe-ish foods back in).

My eyes are so red and crusty. Fucking trees.

[general-george-washington]

not against Bengal cats but I do believe that their (and others, such as savannahs) popularity leads to more hybridizing of cats with wild cats. Thus leading to animals that suffer. Bc animals that are half domestic half not will always struggle in a household. Every one of these breeds are for shits and giggles, no cat benefited from these crossings

[theadventurek9]

Incorrect breed guesses, Cat edition:

Everyone thinks Rebel is a Bengal or Bengal cross. They don't believe me when I say she is your typical cat. Shorthair variety, brown spotted tabby in color. Her spots look nothing like Bengal spots.

She doesn't even have a breed...just a type.

[stormeko]

This is Mango and Bella! Mango is my cat, and Bella is my mom's. They're both a year old and only a few months apart. Can you believe that?

[ego-sum-arbor]

I have an art thing I wanna do but it will require me to learn how to draw a horse… alas

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

I’m assuming anon thinks we got house cats from tigers or something. Which is definitely NOT the case.

Are bears just.... undomesticatable

My friend and I were talking about it today, how humans will pet anything and domesticate anything even remotely friend shaped...so what happened with bears?

I mean we tamed wolves and big cats (domesticated themselves but ya know) oxen, deer and birds, wild boar....why never did we make tiny lovable bears?

well, the shortest answer to that is that domestication isn't really something we did TO animals, it's a process that happens over time that requires work from both ends! it's a two-way-street, so to speak.

see, for domestication to really work, the domesticated species has to actually need something from humans that they then get when they enter a partnership with us.

for dogs? companionship, food, shelter, safety of the group, and assistance with child rearing and territory defense.

for cats? access to a steady food supply, shelter and safe places to rear their young, companionship.

for horses? protection, safety and shelter, healing of injuries and illnesses, and a constant sense of reassurance.

for livestock animals like cows, pigs, and goats? guaranteed safety, healing of injuries and illnesses, assurance of producing young in a safe place, and an eventual swift mostly-painless death free of the agonies of the wilder food chain.

but bears?

bears don't want anything from us. bears don't NEED anything from us. they'll eat our trash, but they're just as happy pulling salmon out of a river somewhere.

they don't have any use for human protection or shelter. they'll eat you if they think it's a valid option on the table. (pun intended)

so no, no matter how much you might like a domesticated grizzly to cuddle up to on cold nights, they're just not interested and so it will never happen.

and that's okay! there are some animals that we just don't have anything to offer to, and it's good to acknowledge that.

bears belong in the wild.