# Lynx in Zoo befriends stray domestic cat **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 4, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynx-in-zoo-befriends-stray-domestic-cat/692319 "2014-07-04T03:13:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynx-in-zoo-befriends-stray-domestic-cat/692319/1 "2014-07-04T03:13:45Z")
I did a due-diligence search, to see if it’s already been posted. The pictures on this page are really great; but the short video at the bottom of the page is truly awesome. Basically, a homeless kitty somehow got into the cage of a lynx in a zoo in Russia, and the lynx welcomed the company, to everyone’s surprise. [So now they live together.](http://aplus.com/a/Zoo-Adopts-Stray-Cat-After-It-Befriends-Lynx) ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynx-in-zoo-befriends-stray-domestic-cat/692319/2 "2014-07-04T03:21:30Z")
Wow. Just wow. The lynx is beautiful but that housecat is gorgeous. How sweet that they are buddies. Thanks for making me smile. ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynx-in-zoo-befriends-stray-domestic-cat/692319/3 "2014-07-04T03:35:58Z")
So, a little internet searching shows photos of this first surfacing in 2008, with them repeated on a couple sites until it went viral a few days ago. 6 years is a pretty significant length of time with no updates and the same still pictures. [http://englishrussia.com/2008/10/28/the-lynx-and-the-cat/](http://englishrussia.com/2008/10/28/the-lynx-and-the-cat/) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynx-in-zoo-befriends-stray-domestic-cat/692319/4 "2014-07-04T03:36:48Z")
Who cares how old it is - that’s some weapons-grade cute. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynx-in-zoo-befriends-stray-domestic-cat/692319/5 "2014-07-04T03:45:41Z")
It looks like the cat found some food. And lots of it. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynx-in-zoo-befriends-stray-domestic-cat/692319/6 "2014-07-04T10:39:19Z")
Given that lynx in the wild routinely hunt and eat domestic / feral cats (I know several lost this way), this goes to show what living in a zoo enables. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynx-in-zoo-befriends-stray-domestic-cat/692319/7 "2014-07-04T13:05:19Z")
A lynx in a zoo doesn’t have to go to the effort of hunting its food, and a lot of animals won’t bother to hunt and kill unless they have to. Not being hungry all the time probably has a significant effect on an animal’s aggression level. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynx-in-zoo-befriends-stray-domestic-cat/692319/8 "2014-07-04T14:40:26Z")
these are pictures of them (probably) together as kittens. [Lynx and kitty cat become fast friends at Russian zoo](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/06/19/cat-lynx-st-petersburg-russia/10876587/) that they’re raised together is more likely than a cat entrance that the lynx couldn’t use. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynx-in-zoo-befriends-stray-domestic-cat/692319/9 "2014-07-09T18:02:26Z")
Oh, **shijinn,** thank you!! I think those are some of the most disarming and wonderful feline pictures I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynx-in-zoo-befriends-stray-domestic-cat/692319/10 "2014-07-09T18:18:42Z")
Once again proving that in the absence of any reason to kill each other, animals can be much cooler than humans. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynx-in-zoo-befriends-stray-domestic-cat/692319/11 "2014-07-10T15:31:34Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > Oh, **shijinn,** thank you!! I think those are some of the most disarming and wonderful feline pictures I’ve ever seen. 🙂 friendly cross-species interactions are fun. bonus gif of a puppy and kitten - [So sleepy - GIF on Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/a2GJu8R.gif)