I got this on a mailout: huge cat at home (NSFW if you work for a company that is worried about one image amongst many, of a naked lady in a bath with a gigantic cat, covering up her boobies, but with a hint of her pubic region through the murky water).
It appears to be acting like a normal housecat, but its face looks like something much bigger. An ocelot*? Lynx/cat cross? It’s a Russian site, so perhaps the breed is mentioned in the cyrillics.
*How do you tittilate an ocelot?
The size does not appear to me to be consistent from photo to photo. This is espcially clear when comparing the one with the lady and table to the one on the computer desk.
Also, what’s up with letting a cat rend a chicken all over one’s nice shiny floor?
-Whatever we’re looking at here, it’s not just an ordinary tabby moggy photoshopped to look big.
-That’s one weird set of photos - I got down to the one with the cat swimming in the bath with the catfish and thought it was a bit risky keeping those two pets together, then realised it wasn’t another pet, it was lunch. Then the chicken thing, the bath photos, the (apparently)naked bloke in front of the computer (I know we can’t see below his shoulders, but face it - he’s not wearing any pants - you can just tell). What a bloody weird house that must be to live in, or next door to.
That is a bengal cat mix. I had a bengal and he was big and he loved the water too. The head on the cat suggest it is a mix, that is not a bengal head. The rest of the body and markings are consistant with a bengal, including the size. Mine was close to 20 lbs and could jump vertically to the top of a six foot refrigirator with all four feet landing on top (no climbing up with the last two feet)!
the Russian word labeling the pictures, “Kotik” is not the normal Russian word for domestic housecat (kochka). In fact, it appears that the word for domestic housecat is a diminutive of “Kotik.” I suggest that “kotik” means “big or great cat” the same way we would describe a lion as a “big cat.” Leading me to believe that what we’re seeing is a tame wild cat, quite possibly the “Fishing cat” seen on this site: http://www.thewildlifetravels.com/cats-india-wildlife.html
and here: http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Prionailurus_viverrinus/
I’ve seen these pictures before. It’s not a breed of domestic cat, it’s a Fishing Cat, native to Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Hence the picture of the cat in the bathtub with a catfish, followed by a picture of the cat dragging the same fish around.
-some of the facts listed there seem a poor match to the cat in the series of pictures for this thread, but maybe if it’s a hybrid between the fishing cat and some other species, there could be some kind of hybrid vigour thing happening - or some other similar or unrelated phenomenon - one of the lion/tiger hybrids (I forget whether it’s ligers or tigons), for example, is larger than both lions and tigers.
Not quite. The word for “male cat” in Russian is “kot”. The word for “female cat” is “koshka”. The dimunitive for “kot” is “kotik”, and the dimunitive for “koshka” is “koshechka”. Typically, you’d refer to cats as female, unless it’s important to note the specific gender (like in English), but this is also one hell of a big cat. So you’d refer to it as male (or it really is a male). It’s also the owner’s beloved pet, so it’s described in the dimunitive form, “kotik”.
I am looking forward to the photo sequence being updated, to first show 1) an alarmed-looking Boris confronted by the cat (who’s licking his chops), and 2) an apartment full of contented cats with distended bellies, and Boris nowhere to be seen.
I had to do a double take in case there was yet another level of weirdness about that photo set that had escaped me, but this wasn’t it - I’m pretty sure that grenade is just the squeeze bulb from a sphygmomanometer.
