Those are real honest to bubastis bobcats?
And they’re tame like kittehs, or something approaching it?
Oh wow, they really are!
This person in the movie has got pet bobcats! And they’re all happy-like! And so pretty with their bobcat eyes and tails and ears. And claws. And teeth.
I love it when folks who live with non-ordinary, non-domestic-species animals share videos of their pets; I don’t really hold with the idear, so very common amongst a certain kind of animal advocates, the notion that “They’re wild! animals! who shouldn’t ever be tame and we shouldn’t interact with them” just sounds as authoritarian as hell to me, and harsh and intrusive. Besides that it’s not historically accurate. People have kept wild animals as pets for as long as they’ve been people, sometimes it is a very good thing, and we should all have the right to choose those interactions and relationships with our animal kinflesh. . Historically, there really have been people who kept tame wild animal as pets and done well by tyhem and happily.
(Full disclosure Facebook fess-up time: I’ve always really wanted a pet monkey. Not a chimp or an ape, but a small little Black and White Capuchin Monkey baby. A little girl monkey I would name Maisey or Daisy or Rosie. Maybe most people shouldn’t keep pet primates but there are the right people out there who can become real friends and proper human companions for a monkey; it happens. you have to learn about the animal and its care and have the heart to do it right. and i’ve always been pretty cert that i would be a great monkey keeper parent person. Would’ve, could’ve anyway, but i am poushing 60 now and i live in California, which has just about the most restrictive and prohibitive laws in the USA concerning what animals one is allowed to keep. You can have a cat and a dog, and maybe some birds and fish and a rat or a rat snake, and that’s about it. No monkeys Phoooey.)
I just wanna go to the least restrictive state wrt pet ownership and have a monkey and a Chestnut or Severe macaw, and three or four dogs.
And a couple of little kune-kune pigs like they have in the children’s petting zoo at the San Fran Zoo. Because they are really cute little fuckers, all speckled with pink and black, and they really are little for life, little as pigs go anyway–that is, they grow up to be two feet tall and five feet long and weigh two or three hundred pounds, instead of growing into monsters as big as sofa beds. They look like the lovable li’l pigs that hillbillies carry around in old comic strips.
And an aviary full of budgies and another aviary fiull of the little finches that go “Beep, beep, beep” as they flitter and hop about their wee bird world.
And a half dozen fainting goats. Because I think it would be pretty funny to ride up on a bicycle two or three times a week and go “Hyaaaa! HYAAA!” at my goats and make them all faint.
And a glass and plastic room for snakes and big hairy spiders, and a great big fish tank, and a water turtle tank with red eared sliders in it, and a land turtle tank with a box turtle in it.
And I’d like some chickens and some ducks, too, please? For out in the yard.
And rabbits in a hutch, getting fat.
And I’d like to get my boyfriend some capybaras. They’re his favorite wild animals and cute to boot. I see that there’re a number of pet-capybara keepers on the Net, so the resources for keeping them do exist. I think Racer would be a great captive-capybara companion. He’s become real good at care and keeping parakeets and cockateils, that’s for sure.