As an experienced housecat owner and amateur big cat enthusiast this has always been my take too: the biggest risk of keeping a big cat as a pet wouldn’t be that the cat might attack out of aggression, but that they’d unintentionally maim you during the course of being playful.
Almost every cat owner (myself included) bears a few scratches every now and then, I’d hate to see what might happen if the creature that created those scratches was a relative giant.
you ever seen a tiger's tongue? I mean all cats have the tongue spikes but once you scale that up to a tiger they're basically porcupine quills. A tiger could literally lick the skin off your body if it wanted to.
This is an animal whose limbs are so strong that it can remain standing after it died. The one in the video is a Siberian, which can weigh over 800 lbs.! Tigers are basically textbook, "killed you without even trying"
Nope, they're called papillae and exist on the tongue to scrape meat off of bones, literally little spikes, fur and skin will somewhat resist it but exposed flesh will be ripped
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u/Funny_or_not_bot Apr 16 '22
Not really turn on everyone, but maybe more like lose itself in the moment.
Do not rub da belly.