Somewhere in my apartment I have a very cool picture of my niece sitting with her arm around a white tiger cub. They made a matching set–she had white-blonde hair and a very pale face at the time, and they both showed up with intense red-eye in the picture. As a result, the sweet little kid and the lovable cub have a surreal demonic look to them.
I’ve never been licked by a lynx, but I did get licked in the face by a wolf once.