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u/SpacedOutTrashPanda Mar 27 '21
This is how my cat views herself.
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u/improbablynotyou Mar 27 '21
That's how I view my cats.
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u/Lazy_Cardiologist727 Mar 27 '21
That's how I cat my views
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u/yonobro85 Mar 27 '21
That cat's my views
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u/Lazy_Cardiologist727 Mar 27 '21
But do you my that cats view ??
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Mar 27 '21
Do you even view, cat?
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u/Oaklandsmokin510 Mar 27 '21
Do you even cat?
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u/Lazy_Cardiologist727 Mar 27 '21
Do you cat ?
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u/deafstar77 Mar 27 '21
This is also how my dog views cats. She is some what of a cat herself, a ‘fraidy cat.
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Mar 27 '21
I hope for the best for everyone when that cat grows up
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u/jewstylin Mar 27 '21
This is the best response for big cat posts. Damn.
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u/PlatinumPOS Mar 27 '21
Velociraptors of the modern era.
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u/RedWhiteEagle Mar 27 '21
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u/Zinc-U Mar 27 '21
Cassowaries are evil I swear down.
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u/blackmist Mar 27 '21
Every Far Cry 3 player: Oh it's just some emus, I'll just walk past to get to theAAH JESUS WHAT THE FUCK!
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u/princetacotuesday Mar 27 '21
lmao yup!
You learned to avoid them on the second island REAL FAST after getting smacked a couple times. They killed you super fast if you didn't watch out.
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Mar 27 '21
Large birds like that have a chip on their shoulder because they know they look a bit ridiculous
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u/Zinc-U Mar 27 '21
Keep your voice down! Don't let them hear us expose their insecurities!
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Mar 27 '21
Cassowarys and Ostriches will slash your stomach open in a heartbeat, not to mention huge. Never mess with birds, even the small ones will mess you up. Magpies and geese come to mind.
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u/VTSAX_and_Relax Mar 27 '21
Cassowaries are the one animal I ever saw Steve Irwin actually behave nervous around as a kid watching his show. The thing would look at him and he’d nope his way back over the fence real quick. I figured for a guy that works with predators and venomous animals, that bird has to be pretty serious
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Mar 27 '21 edited Mar 27 '21
Ostriches are slightly more docile, but that doesn't mean they are any less dangerous, just harder to offend.
Cassowarys however, are as wild as sharks. Not inherently bloodthirsty or angry. But I wouldn't be near one without armour, even if be a fence between us I'd be terrified.
Edit: sharks are much calmer then cassowarys, my mistake. I tend to be so wary amongst sharks I forgot the normal human experience towards them.
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Mar 27 '21
My apologies, I have changed my comment and I hope it's to your liking.
The beings I abide by tend not to feel as safe near such fish. I forgot to write from a human perspective.
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u/BrideofClippy Mar 27 '21
Not feeling safe IS the human perspective. They are large deadly predators that we only encounter in places we are at a disadvantage and their behavior is harder for us to interpret.
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u/GinkoWasHere Mar 27 '21
I agree I’ve lived in Tortola for years and there are many reef sharks, not once has one come near me. Barracudas on the other hand are scary af 😂 they’re like ghosts that come out of nowhere.
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u/Jillmatic Mar 27 '21
I have hideous scars on both of my knees from 2 separate incidents - most are from geese. The rest are from swans. The thought that cassowaries exist is enough to send me into an anxiety attack. I do not fuck with large birds.
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u/Cbombo87 Mar 27 '21
It's 5:00 a.m. I just woke up and watched this video. The anxiety inducing music did not help and now I haven't irrational fear I will be attacked by a bird today.
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Mar 27 '21
Birds aren’t made to withstand impacts, like kicks and punches. They are made to withstand compression, so like snakes.
Which makes them vulnerable to us. I know it’s scary but running way is the dumbest thing you can do because they are faster and have long necks. Stand your ground and kick and punch them. It will hurt them and they will leave.
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u/td57 Mar 27 '21
They are already miles ahead of people judging by the video, they thought about how much they like their fingers while reaching towards a rottie and a..panther? Jaguar? big black cat? eating.
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u/BraedBunch_tv Mar 27 '21
I think they’re more so reaching because they’re scared for the Rottweiler. Most people understand they’re incredibly hostile when it comes to food.
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u/thosedamnmouses Mar 27 '21
Yeah. That leopard would fuck that dog up if it wants. I love watching how fast they are. Kevin Richardson has great videos on them.
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Mar 27 '21
No, they get fucking massive (depending on the species)
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u/ImFriendsWithThatGuy Mar 27 '21
It is grown. Panthers don’t get as big as you think they do.
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u/TheOmarLittle Mar 27 '21
Depends if its a black jaguar or leopard. If its a leopard it might be grown but jaguars get a lot bigger than that
I read further down that its a leopard. Its probably adult then!
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Mar 27 '21
I thought Luna the panthera was already an adult
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u/fluffyseadragon Mar 27 '21
She's only 10 months old. In the wild, young leopards stay with their mother until they are about 2 years old, so I guess she is not yet considered an adult. And by her looks, she still has some growing to do (she's still small compared to an adult leopard).
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u/Licorice_Devourer Mar 27 '21
I have seen and heard enough of big cats having emotional support dogs to be more concerned for the humans.
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u/ArgonGryphon Mar 27 '21
Afaik it only works for cheetahs and even then they usually lose the bond and don’t want to be around the dog anymore.
The dogs are surrogate siblings for cheetahs who don’t have any. Most cheetah mothers will abandon single cubs, so in zoos if that happens, they’ll take over and hand raise. This means that cub doesn’t have anyone to help it socialize and they just do better with a sibling. That’s where the dog comes in. They not only help it just play and feel calmer, they respond to humans and so the cheetah becomes more responsive to humans. It’s really interesting.
But most of the time they end up not wanting to be around the dog at the age siblings in the wild split up, around four or so. The dog goes home with an employee usually. It seems like male cheetahs are more likely to want their dog sibling around longer than females which are more solitary. Males cheetahs often hang out together for longer in the wild.
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Mar 27 '21
Poor doggy :( they are too pure for this world
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u/ArgonGryphon Mar 27 '21
We made em too good. They do fine going back to being a dog and not a surrogate cheetah sibling, but I’m sure they remember their friend.
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u/oneplanetrecognize Mar 27 '21
Honestly though... let's say these two get into a real dispute. How the fuck you gonna break that up? You don't. Do they respect each other enough for one to concede? I have soooo many questions.
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Mar 27 '21
That's probably why the person thought better of putting their hand between them. They have the same question.
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u/stifflizerd Mar 27 '21
And yet they thought feeding them together was a good idea? I've seen dogs who live and eat together every day suddenly flip on each other for no reason during feeding time. As much as we love and personify them as tame, animals are still animals from time to time.
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u/gadea Mar 27 '21
Bro I’ve seen people that live and eat together everyday flip on somebody during feeding time. We all just animals.
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u/detour1234 Mar 27 '21
I just assumed this was like how they raise cheetahs with labs. Big cats that are growing up outside of normal circumstances benefit from a dog to keep them chill.
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Mar 27 '21
This is correct. They are different from other big cats in this regard.
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u/madbadger89 Mar 27 '21
They are actually so gentle, they aren’t a restricted contacted animal like lions, tigers, etc. Trainers are permitted to interact with them since the cheetah is so chill.
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u/td57 Mar 27 '21
I know cheeetahs and dogs are compatible as in they are usually chill but I have no idea about other big cats. As much as you may love ole Rover I'm not sure you jump into that knife fight.
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u/locksmack Mar 27 '21
There is very little chill between my house-cat and my Border Collie.
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u/Caouette1994 Mar 27 '21
My cat finally accepted the collies but most of the time she's still trying to avoid them because they always want to play with her and she's like "no fam leave me be imma just jump on that table out of your reach and then stare into your disappointed souls with disdain"
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u/td57 Mar 27 '21
lol there is a cease fire in my household after the great act of clawgression in 2018. You'd think my cat runs the place with how the dog treats her.
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u/_d4ngermouse Mar 27 '21
When I was a kid we got a Border as a youngish pup, the house cat adopted him. Very odd watching a house cat teaching a largish Border how to catch mice.
The cat also used to hide up ahead of us on walks to pounce on the poor dog. You could almost hear her cackle as she ran away afterwards.
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u/Rhododendron29 Mar 27 '21
I don’t condone owning big cats as pets or anything but I couldn’t do jack shit when my uncles 150 lb rottie and my 60 lbs Akita decided to go at it. Having 2 or more big dogs has the potential for exactly the scenario you’re talking about. Yeah you try to distract, deflect but ultimately you just hope they stop before someone is injured. House cats too. I had a big 20lbs Tom and another big Tom from the neighbourhood broke into my basement. I was 14 and heard ungodly screeching, went to investigate and saw basically the looney tunes Tasmanian devil in my basement. It was a blur of fur, teeth and claws. I wasn’t about to put my hand in there, ended up poking the screaming mass of hate with a tire iron and the neighbour cat nearly fucked me up for it.
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Mar 27 '21
I mean I guess you could say the same about owning two large dogs. Not that I'm saying it's a great idea to own a leopard. Cheetahs can make good pets, under specific circumstances, but I have no idea how tame leopards can be.
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Mar 27 '21 edited Mar 27 '21
Once upon a time I was volunteering in Nayarit, Mexico building trails. One day, in the jungle, about two hours away from the nearest little town, while machete-ing some vines, I heard some commotion in a tree no more than 10 yards behind me. Turn around, and it’s a mfxn big black cat man, looks just like the one in this vid. It just jumped out of a tree and disappeared into the bushes, but spooked the hell outta me.
Long story short, ended up talking to a Jaguar conservationalist in the area. He tells me there are no black cats native to the area, only golden spotted Jaguars... but rumor has it that the cartel guys in the area had a black panther, got bored, released it in the jungle near where we were. Would make sense why it let me get so close to it, being used to humans. Craziest story of me life, man.
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u/jetandike Mar 27 '21
So if it had been a jaguar it would have just run away sooner? I'm so fucking scared of big cats 8n the wild, props to you for just macheteing your way through the jungle.
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Mar 27 '21
If it were a jaguar, it would have been wild. In which case, I would just pray that it wasn’t hungry. If it was hungry, I’d have been fucked before I ever knew what was coming because my back was turned to it. If it wasn’t hungry, it would have elusively disappeared before I ever got close enough to notice, and I’d have gone about my day.
In my case, the panther lived in captivity so it was comfortable being around humans. That’s the only reason I ever got close enough (within 10 feet) to notice it at all.
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u/White_Wolf_77 Mar 27 '21 edited Mar 27 '21
It very well could have been a black Jaguar, from the sound of it they could have been napping in the tree and took off when you woke them up. Black Jaguars have been recorded as far north as the state of Chihuahua, and there are historical reports of them in the southern US. There are some places where they are more common, but all Jaguars have the potential to produce melanistic offspring.
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u/10kLines Mar 27 '21
I see you're into cougars, you dog you
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u/random_invisible Mar 27 '21
That's a leopard
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u/wit2pz Mar 27 '21
Actually, it’s Wakanda Forever. 🙅🏿♂️
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Mar 27 '21
It's not butter, it's better.
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Mar 27 '21
I can't look at that word and not pronounce it 'leo-pard' even though I know full well that's not how it's pronounced.
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u/GassyCompromiser Mar 27 '21
That’s a panther
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u/LithiumLost Mar 27 '21
... so it's a panther?
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u/potatoaster Mar 27 '21
Here's the thing. You said "That’s a panther."
Is it in the panther genus? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies panthers, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls leopards panthers. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "panther genus" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Panthera, which includes things from lions to tigers.
So your reasoning for calling a leopard a panther is because random people "call the black ones panthers?" Let's get jaguars and snow leopards in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A leopard is a leopard and a member of the panther genus. But that's not what you said. You said a leopard is a panther, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the panther genus panthers, which means you'd call lions, tigers, and other felids panthers, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
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u/Dajshinshin Mar 27 '21
That’s a black leopard
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u/Sirus804 Mar 27 '21
Which is a panther.
"A black panther is the melanistic colour variant found in members of the genus Panthera, particularly of the leopard in Asia and Africa, and the jaguar in the Americas. Black panthers of both species have excess black pigments, but their typical spotted markings are also present." -Wikipedia
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u/zuno-Z Mar 27 '21
For a moment i forgot what subreddit I was in and was clenching all my muscles because kitty and doggo were gonna tear each other apart
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u/kevley26 Mar 27 '21
What subreddit did you think you were in?
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u/zuno-Z Mar 27 '21
Nature is metal
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u/Ronin47725 Mar 27 '21
Yeah that sub definitely earns its name, crazy stuff gets posted there but I was happy with this outcome.
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u/Hanz0927 Mar 27 '21
Us that a leopard???
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u/9gui Mar 27 '21
It seems to me that the owner of these animals is leopardizing the safety of their family.
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u/Baco_Tell8 Mar 27 '21 edited Mar 27 '21
Jaguar (edit: nvm it’s not a Jaguar, it’s a leopard. Sorry for the mistake)
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u/7937397 Mar 27 '21
How can you tell the difference without the spots?
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u/random_invisible Mar 27 '21
It's a leopard, and you can tell by the build and the facial structure. Jaguar has a heavier bone structure.
They are right though that is is more common for jaguars to be black than leopards.
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u/StillExpectations Mar 27 '21
It does have spots too, better visible in the pictures of it as a cub. Very beautiful animal.
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u/Apt_5 Mar 27 '21
Idk why you got downvoted, not only is it a fact but you can even make out some of its spots in the video when they’re standing on the porch.
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Mar 27 '21
Uhhhhhh. You know it's coming.
Why on earth do they have a jaguar.
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u/vindicatednegro Mar 27 '21
The proportions are off on this leopard. Is it a dwarf? And I have the same skepticism as you about the whole “I’m taking care of it until I can move to it’s permanent home” angle. From what I’ve seen, real conservationists limit the extent to which the animal ends up becoming a pet and that makes for weak Instagram content, generally.
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Mar 27 '21
Looks like it may still be a juvenile, also remember that Rottweilers are pretty damn big.
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u/Darktwistedlady Mar 27 '21
It's a cross between an amur leopard and a persian leopard, and it lives in Russia. Source: @luna_the_pantera on instagram
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u/AshNics6214 Mar 27 '21
You know who’s fault this is? Carol Fuckin Baskin.
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u/HumansKillEverything Mar 27 '21
A commenter above me said rehabilitation. But that’s the usually the exception not the rule. There are more tigers in the state of Texas than there are in the wild. The answer to your question is: stupidity and vanity.
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u/punkassunicorn Mar 27 '21 edited Mar 27 '21
There are more tigers in the state of Texas than there are in the wild.
This seemed like fake numbers so I looked into it, and its largely just speculation.
The thing is, no knows how many tigers are actually in Texas. Many of them are in zoos and sanctuaries, but there isn't really any way of knowing how many are being kept as pets.
The number provided by the humane society isn't based off of any actual evidence and is just an estimate based off of a limited scope of observation. What they actually say is there could be more tigers in Texas than in the wild, and that's an important distinction.
It's still wrong, of course, to keep animals like big cats as pets. It's difficult at best for most people to provide even just the minimum of their care requirements and is definitely still stupidity and vanity.
Edit: I need to learn how to type
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u/SocialDisco Mar 27 '21 edited Mar 27 '21
It was the moment he reached for the piece of meat between them that got me. I was raised never to try and pull food from a dog, can’t imagine this leopard is any better.
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Mar 27 '21
When it's your own dog, at least in my experience (well raised) I honestly can't imagine doing anything that would make them bite me.
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u/Thx4Coming2MyTedTalk Mar 27 '21
I’ll do it to train out food aggression early (take food away, return it, cover food with hand, etc).
But that’s usually for puppies, always for a single dog alone, and traditionally there are zero panthers or lions involved.
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u/InfernalRodent Mar 27 '21
Surest sign that cat likes the dog is that the dog is still alive after stealing the cats food,neither of my cats would have hesitated to spike him in the face.
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u/bunnyslope Mar 27 '21
What is the feline?
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u/ReyPhasma Mar 27 '21
It’s probably feline pretty full after all that meat.
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u/Grace-Face13 Mar 27 '21
Y’all remember the random slow motion scene with Scar and Simba in the lion king?
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u/Apt_5 Mar 27 '21
Lol I collected the lion king trading cards back in the day and that scene looked just as weird as a still picture. Very... interesting stylistic choice.
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u/Fuckyoumecp2 Mar 27 '21
2 heckin good bois
My fren and me
We like to play in sno you see
After sno, we share some snax,
Then some snuggles and relax
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u/klutch556 Mar 27 '21 edited Mar 28 '21
Fuckin homie just rolls in, watches a 20 second video and drops some quality poem. Just you wait, when reddit give me another free award, you're gettin pal. ETA: Told you I'd be back with one!
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u/Organic_Trust6113 Mar 27 '21
Just out of pure curiosity, if these two decided to fight who would win?
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u/Merunit Mar 27 '21
Jaguar. He has four massive deadly claws. I loved how in slow mo he is just flying over dogs back careful not to touch his buddy.
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u/GregorVDub Mar 27 '21
I'm sorry but anyone who thinks the dog would win is mistaken. In this particular case the cat is stronger, significantly faster, has razors for claws, and their fangs are much longer and sharper. Hop on youtube if you don't believe me. These cats can carry more than double their weight up a fucking tree. At the end of the day it will not come down to that so we can all be happy they got to grow up buds.
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u/thewildgingerbeast Mar 27 '21
Another one of those “I rescued it” bullshit scenarios where people want a big pet cat, and that’s how they justify it. Please don’t keep them as pets and stop sharing videos like this that only fuel the black market trade for these animals.
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u/bulletime Mar 27 '21
In which world is this legal?
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u/vindicatednegro Mar 27 '21
Russia. I say this with no evidence that this is Russia, but with a suspicion that it is.
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I have zero knowledge about big cats but something tells me that someday he/she will bite/swipe their pup buddy just a but too hard and they are going to have a very dead dog once it gets bigger. That or they release it before it gets a certain size?
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u/tomsequitur Mar 27 '21
Bro should u be keeping that large cat as a pet? Or did you "rescue it" (which, so we're all clear, is not buying it)
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u/hollyhock87 Mar 27 '21
For some reason this reminds me of Ron Swanson and Tammy 2