# Big cat ID **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 10, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615 "2021-03-10T14:43:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/62 "2021-03-11T21:56:18Z")
Well hippos are huge, tusk-y, and aggressive, but they don’t have horns, so make fine pets. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/63 "2021-03-11T21:57:20Z")
My father seriously considered getting an ocelot, clear back somewhere around 1960 (NYState). I’m pretty sure there were people advertising them for sale. He eventually decided against it, due to a combination of the need for extra high fencing and the conclusion that, as he put it, for the same weight of feline you could get to live with a number of different personalities/individuals if you stuck to the more usual type of house cats (and probably also due to resistance on the part of my mother, though I can’t remember whether she took the whole idea seriously). ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/64 "2021-03-11T21:57:46Z")
That was a cool show. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/65 "2021-03-13T10:36:15Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > I didn’t say they were a _good_ hoaxer. I would argue that making it more ambiguous is a trait of a superior hoaxer. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/66 "2021-03-13T16:29:49Z")
> [@Ynnad](#): > > Am I the only one whose brain refused to co-operate in finding a cat in that image? I had to enlarge and crop the image to figure out what I was looking at. I see the shine from one eye and a few dark stripes. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/67 "2021-03-15T16:06:57Z")
note to self: avoid visiting Washington. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/68 "2021-03-15T16:16:50Z")
Ocelotses don’t like nasty hobbits! 😁 Cougars otoh likely have a different opinion… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/69 "2021-03-29T20:35:56Z")
There was another cat sighting on Nextdoor. The poster said: > For all you who were following this thread, I just received confirmation from Washington Fish and Wildlife that the image on my game camera was a Bobcat. In addition, they can not totally rule out that it was not a Canadian Lynx as the BC fires the last two years have displaced some into boarder [sic] areas of northern Washington. I don’t think the cat in the original post looks like a bobcat. I didn’t post the latest photo, but it looks like a coyote to me. In any case, it’s interesting to know we have bobcats and lynxes in the region. I never knew that. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/70 "2021-03-29T21:02:49Z")
One of my favorite discovered letters from antiquity: [http://historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistoriesResponsive.asp?historyid=358](http://historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistoriesResponsive.asp?historyid=358) > Yakim-Addu, a Babylonian civil servant, fears that he will be blamed if a lion, an animal reserved for the king, dies within his jurisdiction: > ‘Tell my lord: Your servant Yakim-Addu sends the following message. A short time ago I wrote to my lord as follows: ‘A lion was caught in the barn of a house in Akkaka. My lord should write whether this lion should remain in the barn until arrival of my lord, or whether I should have it brought to my lord.’ But letters from my lord were slow in coming and the lion has been in the barn for five days. Although they threw him a dog and a pig, he refused to eat them. I was worrying: ‘Heaven forbid that this lion pine away.’ I became scared, but eventually I got the lion into a wooden cage and loaded it on a boat to have it brought to my lord.’ > Oppenheim, A.L. _Letters from Mesopotamia_ , page 53 ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/71 "2021-03-29T23:06:50Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I don’t think the cat in the original post looks like a bobcat Agreed, I’ve seen my fair share of bobcats… I’m going to say, no, not a bobcat. ETA: The face is too elongated for a bobcat. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/72 "2021-03-30T17:45:47Z")
I know it’s not a Pallas cat in the OP but I’ve been having way too much fun lately watching [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXw-3H48yU) repeatedly. _Hello_… ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/73 "2021-04-03T00:55:34Z")
> [@Ynnad](#): > > Am I the only one whose brain refused to co-operate in finding a cat in that image? No. I knew the bright spot was an eye, but wondered where the second one was, and I couldn’t make out anything else. Then I looked at the picture on imgur, where it’s displayed _smaller_, and I saw it right away. If anyone’s still confused, it’s in profile, displaying the right side of its head (explaining where the second eye is). ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/74 "2021-04-24T22:50:43Z")
That’s great…it’s like a scene from a horror movie. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615/75 "2021-04-25T03:28:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > not a Pallas cat in the OP but I’ve been having way too much fun lately watching [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXw-3H48yU) repeatedly. Oh my God, that was hilarious. Thanks so much for sharing the link. Everyone else, go watch it, right now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-cat-id/937615.md?page=3)