It sickens me to no end how much animal destruction humans have done in the past ~500 years. Millions of years of evolution, destroyed in mere seconds. It’s pretty obvious within the next ~100 years animals won’t exist in the wild. And we’re supposed to be the smart creatures?
How much human overpopulation is there on Earth? 10x? 1000x? 100,000x? This planet, and surely other creatures, are ******ed!
We really are the destroyers of Earth. Sad.
/rant
What is it with humans and finding predators cute?
Which, look, they’re cute as hell. I’d pet them and crush them and call them George.
Maybe in a few thousand years we’ll have domesticated big cats and they’ll be as safe as a normal cat that’s as big as you, with murder paws and daggers for teeth. :D
It’s only really mammalian predators (at least for most people - I find squid cute), and baby ones at that, which is just tapping into our parental instincts. It’s not like we find tuna or spiders or parasitic wasps cute.
Funny you should mention that. Interestingly, our tastes (or tolerance? thresholds?) can shift. E.g. jumping spiders and tarantulas are cute to me, now, which definitely didn’t used to be the case. The moment when I realized this was when I was reading out on my porch one day, and looked down to find a jumping spider sitting on my knee, looking up at me. I suddenly wanted to pet him/her.
Safe as a normal cat? If my cat was a few hundred pounds, I’d be dead years ago. Sure sure, he’d be sad about it later, but find me a domestic cat owner that doesn’t have a scratch or some random why the hell did you just do that injury.
I assume our best attempts to domesticate big cats will always result in those too bad your cat just suddenly murdered you moments.
My biggest cat is 28+ lbs and 38". They are Maine Coons, and the breed’s nickname is the gentle giant. They are lots of videos like this of toddlers mauling Maine Coons. But if they were ten times bigger, I might not be dead, but I’d have definitely gone to the ER a few times when the bite or scratch, instead of just drawing blood would have life-threatening.
My two cats are 19 and 22lbs and both around 34", and even though they love me to a probably creepy degree, I’d easily be dead a couple times over if they were the size of tigers. When they want attention and affection, they do not fuck around.
My current one is 15lbs. He’s never really attacked me, neither have the others, but he gets annoyed sometimes… for no apparent reason. My last cat was outside sometimes and rarely but did ultimately require a bath. That would’ve been a slaughter if he were my size.
That was the point.
Fine. I decided to set my sights a little lower. How about a cheetah? They purr and go meow, they weigh less than an adult human and they’re pretty docile as big cats go.
They also have the whole dripping mascara look going on.
That works, right guys? Guys? Can I have one? I promise I’ll take care of it everydaaaay!
Sure
But remember cheetahs are the only big cats who don’t have retractable claws, so when they playful grab your arm well you better be wearing some armor.
How do you share a bed with a big cat?
On the floor.
In case you can’t get enough…
I haven’t even watched the last episode. It just sounds like follow-up interviews. I didn’t even watch that kind of stuff for Top Chef and Project Runway.
Yeah, it’s exactly follow-up interviews. Kinda sorta interesting to hear a slightly different slant from the bit-players than what was shown in the main series… but no real new information.
Glad I passed then.
On a slightly related note, my lil sister started watching this and telling me about it. I let her finish and then said yeah I watched the whole thing. She was pretty surprised. It’s usually not my thing at all. I don’t do true crime, or reality TV really… the closest I get is usually some of the competition shows, and the part I hate the most about those is when they spend more than two minutes talking about their lives. Just cook or sew dang it!
I do like I can talk about this show with other people. Finally something new to talk about that isn’t news related.
I find it surprising that nobody mentioned that the employee could have kept the arm, but it was 3 years of surgeries, so, off it goes.
I can’t imagine it was for anything but the cost of the surgeries and probably employment…
These individuals are… interesting. I am not sure cost was a huge factor. That person even mentioned it would bring more attention to the zoo, bad attention, if they kept it.
