# Caracal as a pet. WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2023, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caracal-as-a-pet-wtf/990305 "2023-09-18T10:03:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caracal-as-a-pet-wtf/990305/1 "2023-09-18T10:03:37Z")
Still having problems posting video. Been seeing dozens of videos on YouTube recently where people had adopted a caracal as a house pet. In case you don’t know, a caracal is a medium sized wild cat from Africa and parts of Asia. What it is not is a big cuddly kitty cat. They are undomesticated, unfriendly, untamable, and uninterested in being anyone’s pet. They don’t like being touched, pet, or played with, not even by their so called “owner”. Most of the videos show them growling, hissing, and lunging even at the “owner”. These are dangerous animals and are perpetually pissed off. They don’t want to be there. So having all these qualities in abundance what do the “owners” do? Why antagonize the living shit out of them, of course, by getting in their face with cameras or teasing them with food. I can’t wait to see the video of one of them thrashing someone to shreds. Just hope it isn’t a child or unsuspecting visitor. People get these things as a status symbol. I predict sooner or later their status will be severely injured if not dead! Just get a rabid pit bull that has VD why don’t you? People are really stupid. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caracal-as-a-pet-wtf/990305)._