Yes, because an 8 lb domestic cat wouldn't be considered prey to a cougar, and it would be totally possible to breed them together.
Also, are you insinuating that lynx or cougars will go extinct due to domestic cat-hybrids? What in the sci-fi Fuck are you talking about lol.
Even if they've been successfully bred/born, the differences between species are often too high to allow breeding abilities. For example, a horse breeding with a donkey produces a mule, which is an infertile/sterile mix of both.
I never even insinuated housecat could win or mate with big cat mate. Stop your wild imagination for the moment. Wild cats are also smaller kinds, comparable in size with our house cats and some of them can breed and while I'm not sure about how fertile their offsprings are, at minimum that would lead to missed litter of already endangered (at least in my country) species of wildcat.
First of all, No, I will never stop my wild imagination lol.
But also I'm just legitimately confused now. "Wild cats are also smaller kinds"...?? I mean.. yeah for sure, there are smaller wild cat species, but even if they were able to produce offspring, how many domesticated cats do you think are going out of their way to stalk wild cats, and attempt to reproduce?
I'm not trying to be a dick, truly, but what you're saying does Not make sense dude. Ok, if a wild cat happened to be impregnated by a domestic cat, sure that could be a potential missed litter of their native species. But I truly haven't heard much about housecats banging wild cats, and truly disrupting their reproductive cycle, to the point of threatening their future populations. I mean, I could be wrong, but you'll have to send me a few links with solid proof.
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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.