WHAAAAT! SAND CATS ARE A THING!? Apparently they are like normal cats but cuter? They look like kittens even as adults. WHAT!
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Huh, this surprises me. According to Wikipedia they are a breed of wild cats and they do indeed seem to look very kitten-esque. I just seemed to remember that I once learned that the reason why domestic cats look so baby-faced is because we’ve bred them to be that way – we wanted them cute. So it’s surprising that wild cats can be even cuter.
They look kind of like a cross between a kitten and a kit fox.
Basically the same traits that we find so cute in Fennec foxes, that are simply good adaptations to their desert homes. Large eyes for hunting at night, big ears to radiate off heat and track prey, small, narrow muzzle to avoid water loss.
As I think of it, true, but as a side effect, they actually did become awesomely cute, we can’t deny that!
As I recall they’re endangered and part of some cloning trials to keep the species going. But I might have the wrong cute desert kitteh! I loooooooooove these cats!!
They also have an awesome “spit”. Which is a hiss noise they make.
So cute!! I had never heard of Sand Cats before so I had to google them! Why aren’t we domesticating these adorable creatures!!
According to legend, we already did. They used to think that the Ancient Egyptians “domesticated” sand cats, and that the modern house cat spread from there.
Actually the Ancient Egyptions domesticated the African Wild Cat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wild_cat
That’s the wrong way around. The CATS domesticated the humans.
I agree…
Thank goodness these guys don’t live anywhere near where I do, because I’d probably get myself killed forgetting that they’re wild animals. So freaking cute!!!
Well, you probably wouldn’t get killed – sand cats are actually very small, and only grow to weigh about 6lbs in adulthood. While one could probably injure you, it wouldn’t take you down like a lion!
*nerd!!*
I want to nuzzle them!
The last thing any animal species needs is to be “domesticated.” If you really love animals, don’t hope for that and certainly do not do it.
Well, I would have to politely disagree. If that’s a viable way to help preserve an endangered species or four, then I say let’s go for it.
And, really, how is a precarious hardship ridden life “in the wild” so much better than a cushy life safe and loved in someone’s home? (BTW: Animals do not have imagination, and can’t “yearn for the freedom they lost”, so that argument is right out the window. Sorry.)
How can you be certain they don’t imagine? They dream. They think up ways to get humans to do what they want. They love. They get into mischief. I think we get a little arrogant when we start stating as fact that animals aren’t capable of certain things just because we think they are not.
Domesticated animals will survive because we are dependent on them. There are 24 billion chicken estimated alive world wide a few months ago when I checked to see the figures. If you do not want to go extinct be adaptable, be useful to a better species or die.
You assume that homosapien is a “better” species, that it is possible to domesticate a wide variety of wild animals when it is not, that the domesticated animals bear any resemblance or to the wild creatures they once were, and that homosapiens will survive to keep using the domesticated animals thus preventing those few species’ extinction.
Factory farming is responsible for one fifth of greenhouse gases, (just one of the many sound, fact based arguments against domestication)
so domestication of wild animals may be play a role in helping to bring about homosapien’s extinction.
Then, when we’re gone ALL species will adapt or die. That’s how evolution works. Think dinosaurs and mammals when talking abrupt climate change.
And most species could probably be “tamed” by a few dozen generations of selective breeding. Dogs being the biggest and most successful example I can think of at the moment.
In fact, there is, or at least was, a Russian project to domesticate Siberian foxes, simply by breeding them for docility. Apparently it worked pretty well… but with some surprising changes to their appearance!
Awww… So adorable Sand/Dune cats. Did see one of the cutest video clip on youtube too. Must be one of the smallest wild cat species indeed. Too sad to see they’re in endangered zone. Must preserve these cuties.
To be fair, I don’t think many cats really have been domesticated. They are like small, wild, little creatures living in homes
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I’ll miss the Pallas’s cats but these are cute, too.
Don’t know what it is about them, but they give me the creeps. Gonna have to go with the chinchillas on this one.