Cat is absolutely capable of biting your finger off, yet when socialised properly they limit themselves with occasional excited scratching and light biting.
But just to be clear, I’m not advocating for having a tiger as a per.
A feral cat is nothing to trifle with. My mom brought a cat home once from her coworker but it was a street cat that freaked the fuck out in the new environment. Almost severed one of the tendons in my mother’s hand and in the end it took 3 full grown men to get it out of our house.
That’s my point, 99.99% gentle is fine when they’re mostly harmless, the problem with large predators is that .01% event puts you in the hospital if it doesn’t kill you outright. A tiger’s excited pounce can break half the bones in your body, an excited swipe can disembowel. If those little kickers start going, you lose everything below the waist.
Having large predators for a pet pretty much always ends badly unless they get taken away in time.
Cat is absolutely capable of biting your finger off, yet when socialised properly they limit themselves with occasional excited scratching and light biting.
But just to be clear, I’m not advocating for having a tiger as a per.
A feral cat is nothing to trifle with. My mom brought a cat home once from her coworker but it was a street cat that freaked the fuck out in the new environment. Almost severed one of the tendons in my mother’s hand and in the end it took 3 full grown men to get it out of our house.
That’s my point, 99.99% gentle is fine when they’re mostly harmless, the problem with large predators is that .01% event puts you in the hospital if it doesn’t kill you outright. A tiger’s excited pounce can break half the bones in your body, an excited swipe can disembowel. If those little kickers start going, you lose everything below the waist.
Having large predators for a pet pretty much always ends badly unless they get taken away in time.