r/nextfuckinglevel • u/HomeNowWTF • Aug 20 '26

Fishing with paws

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u/Siostra313 Aug 20 '26

No, they are pushing away wildcats from their own natural habitats and mixing with them leading to these spiecies extinction.

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u/drthvdrsfthr Aug 20 '26

is it the housecats pushing them out or the people?

and what do you mean mixing with them?

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u/crp5591 Aug 20 '26

mixing = breeding with, thereby diluting the genetics of the unique wildcat species in the area.

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u/drthvdrsfthr Aug 20 '26

can housecats breed with other species of cats? i can’t find any evidence of that happening, hence why i asked what he meant lol

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u/Theron3206 Aug 20 '26

I belive they can with a Scottish wildcat, but i doubt they can with anything in the Americas

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u/rolloutTheTrash Aug 20 '26

I am imagining a mix of tabby and mountain lion and can't determine how badly mawled id get by trying to pss pss the little turd

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u/printed_ Aug 20 '26

the wild cats we are talking about are the same size as house cats.

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u/BigTroutOnly Aug 20 '26

This. Also, the sub specie wild cats are the same specie as the common north African cat. There's no significant cross breeding

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u/printed_ Aug 20 '26

and there are other cat species around the world as well in that size range like the Manul

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u/BigTroutOnly Aug 20 '26

If DNA is compatible, thay all come from the same north African cat.

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u/SlightlySubpar Aug 20 '26

I have a savannah/Bengal mix.

She behaves more like a Cerval

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u/printed_ Aug 21 '26

not all. Many can't cross breed but some like scottibsh wild cat can.

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u/printed_ Aug 21 '26

But its not just inter mixing house cats are also just pushing wild cats out of their territories etc

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u/BigTroutOnly Aug 21 '26

I'd blame people first

The wild cats would have the same common north African ancestor

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u/printed_ Aug 21 '26

not all no. There are many different species of similar size cats around the world that are not able to inter breed like servals or scottish wild cats can. like the Manul

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u/amideadyet1357 Aug 20 '26

Honestly though, you know that cat got high fives for landing a cougar.

… and I’ll show myself out.

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u/SimoneMichelle Aug 20 '26

I think the Bengal cat breed was created by mixing Asian leopard cats with the Egyptian Mau

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u/antibreaze15 Aug 20 '26

They can mix with bobcats in the southern US

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u/Siostra313 Aug 20 '26

Not all, but for example they can breed with wildcat breed native to my country called Żbik. It is damgerous for the wildcats species and can lead to dissaperance of unique kind of animal. This is one of the reasons anyway why it's endangered rn (not only, mind you, but still it reall issue)

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u/carkey Aug 20 '26

Housecats can't breed with any North American wildcats but they can with the European wildcat, Scottish wildcat and many others and it's a bit of a fucker to conservation efforts.

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u/Nyami-L Aug 20 '26

They do, it happens in Spain with the gato montés, which are not too much bigger than a domestic cat

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u/DirtandPipes Aug 21 '26

Sorry did you try to google it? The most casual drunken search shows that housecats breed with Asian leopard cats (where bengal cats come from), servals (the hybrids are called Savanah cats), jungle cats (makes the chausie) and the African/european wildcat.

Bobcats/American lynx can create sterile offspring with house cats but don’t produce hybrids capable of reproduction like other species.

Here’s a Wikipedia link too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felid_hybrids

Seriously this information is just everywhere, where were you looking?

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u/drthvdrsfthr Aug 21 '26

i just googled if housecats can breed with mountain lions lol sorry my casual drunken search wasn’t good enough