# Interesting looking small (Pallas Cat) wildcats born in captivity **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025 "2011-09-03T03:45:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/1 "2011-09-03T03:45:55Z")
Videos here - mute annoying accompanying music [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0y70yw1oCc) Adults here [The Unfluffy Truth about Pallas' Cats at Prospect Park Zoo - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44n0v6JSeQY) ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/2 "2011-09-03T04:14:04Z")
It’s interesting that their irises are circular instead of the slits you see in house cats! They do look fat, but apparently it’s all fur. Thanks for sharing! ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/3 "2011-09-03T04:26:27Z")
They are ADORABLE. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/4 "2011-09-03T05:15:03Z")
I’ll never understand why so many people make YouTube videos of things like that, and then put such _aggressive_ music in the background. The music is so obnoxious and invasive. The video would have been so much better served with mild, quiet, instrumental-only music, if indeed it needed any music at all. [This](http://youtu.be/sOxntuXpfdM) video - a Japanese demonstration of the FN FAL rifle - is a great example of music being used appropriately. That music would have been perfect for the cat video. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/5 "2011-09-03T06:20:07Z")
[Yakety Cats](http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=soBYeKyUIPU). Not _too_ bad. ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/6 "2011-09-03T10:10:00Z")
They are fab animals- they’ve got them and Scottish Wildcats at the Highland Wildlife Park, and they are all adorable (especially the kittens, who do the little bum wiggle before they pounce). ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/7 "2011-09-03T11:05:37Z")
How cute! The kittens look a bit like plush raccoons. The same [kittens at three months old making adorable faces](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZJh4D8qtJ4&NR=1). ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/8 "2011-09-03T13:52:54Z")
Twitchy little things, ain’t they? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/9 "2011-09-03T17:44:14Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > [Yakety Cats](http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=soBYeKyUIPU). Not _too_ bad. [Per wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallas's_Cat) you can see (kind of) their unique threat display (for a cat) in this video where they raise the side of their lips to display their canines like dogs. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/10 "2011-09-05T02:50:55Z")
I like Pallas cats but I find it interesting that even at three months old they don’t look very babyish. Most other big kittens still have kittenish proportions, like bigger eyes in relation to their head than grown ups, and of course huge paws for their size. The Pallas kittens just look like scaled down grown ups. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/11 "2011-09-05T09:06:39Z")
They look like they are plotting the deaths of everyone they see. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/12 "2011-09-05T11:24:18Z")
They look like Snark from the Thundercats. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/13 "2011-09-05T14:17:58Z")
I have to go out and buy another laser pointer, and find some Pallas’ kittens. Because they need to be teased with the laser dot. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/14 "2011-09-05T17:34:22Z")
I think they look like [Sandra Boynton’s cats](http://www.google.com/search?q=boynton+cats&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1364&bih=583). And I adore them and want one for my very own. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/15 "2011-09-06T16:08:16Z")
Anyone else notice it looks like their eyes don’t focus quite straight? If you look at the reflections of lights off their eyes, it’s often in a different spot on the right eye than on the left. That was something I was told to look for with our kids (and indeed we had a few snaps of my daughter where they were NOT aligned, but medical followup showed they were fine). ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/16 "2011-09-06T17:32:37Z")
I have to admit that I was too fascinated by the twitchy ears to notice the eyes very much. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/17 "2011-09-06T21:45:08Z")
They are adorable. Anybody else seem to lose about an hour wandering around the youtube videos of pallas cats and other kittehs? I would love to be licensed to have a breeding pair of them, try to get more to put into a release program. If we move to Fresno the environment would be about right for their original environment. I could see setting up an acre as a breeding preserve. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/18 "2011-09-06T22:03:50Z")
Am I bad person for wishing to see what they’d look like after they’ve been given a bath and are sopping wet? ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/19 "2011-09-07T01:30:42Z")
I would just like to say that the Pallas Cat is the greatest animal in the animal kingdom and could kick the shit out of a honey badger. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/20 "2011-09-07T01:57:41Z")
Pallas kittens show up fairly regularly on [www.zooborns.com](http://www.zooborns.com). Its hard to decide which feral, wild, dangerous cat is cutest as a kitten over there - you want to take home one of each (damn the furniture, I’m sure they’d be fine with a scratching post). I’m partial to ocelots. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025.md?page=2)