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Say It With Us: Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz (lemmy.world)
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[–] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I think the cat ended up in a shelter (I don't know the reason though) and then they discovered it didn't match the other cat species known about. So it happened the other way around.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It was apparently found as a kitten by someone who thought it was a standard cat, then after a year of what I can only assume was murder kitty behaviour, they took it to a shelter

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It really is peak cat when it takes a full year with a wild, feral animal to notice it's behaviour isn't just cat being cat.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Ive heard stories about people taking in bobcat kittens before realizing. But the story that takes the cake is someone raising a dog for years before realizing it was a fucking bear.

    https://abc11.com/pets-animals/woman-unknowingly-rescues-bobcat-thinking-it-was-kitten/5570293/

    https://people.com/pets/pet-dog-is-bear-not-tibetan-mastiff/

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