If you’ve been looking for ways to delight your pet lion or tiger, just remember that they’re cats and they’ll like what cats like. And what do cats like better than cardboard boxes? For the big cats, all you need is… big cardboard boxes.
Tag: big cats
‘Breaking News: Mysterious Big Cat on the Loose in France’ (2014)
Let’s hope it wasn’t one of these guys.
This is another one of those news stories that tantalizes you with headlines and then just dries up and blows away without ever telling you what really happened.
So in 2014 a lot of people spotted a scary “big cat” roaming around near Disneyland Paris…
And that was the end of it. Disneyland wasn’t missing a tiger. Neither was anybody else. They couldn’t catch the cat, so they wound up laughing it off as one of those “people want to believe” stories.
Uh… Could the fact that they weren’t able to catch it mean that the cat got away? That it, like, wasn’t there anymore, in the area where they were looking for it?
Or could it just mean that the free and independent journalists who raised the initial hoopla just got lazy and never bothered to follow it up?
We’ll never know.
An Even Bigger Big Cat
“Unknowable” has pointed out that there is a cat even bigger than the American lion was: the liger, the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. These hybrids are sterile, which is probably a very good thing. We wouldn’t want them devouring all the elephants.
I, Mr. Nature, stand corrected. I knew about these critters but wasn’t counting them because they can’t reproduce themselves. There’s also a tiglon, with a tiger father and a lion mother: not quite so big, but somewhat more aggressive.
Nature sure is full of surprises.