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Originally Posted by pip08456

I thought everyone knew the various large cats were related to domesticated ones.

Well, they are, there's a common ancestor...but try to treat a big cat like a small one and, as Blain might've put it, you're in a world o' hurt.

But it's funny to see a big cat showing the same mannerism as a small one. Mind you, I don't recall Tibby, my childhood moggy and superb mouser (Mum was reluctant to have a cat, and Dad, pragmatic as he was then, retorted, "Well, we'll just have to have the bloody mice, then!"), or Puss (we never knew her name, she adopted me at around 3am when I came home totally blotto from a good night at - oh, what was it called, used to be on Mawdsley St. downstairs, good place for metal fans - Sparrows, I think), or my beloved Tigger behaving like that.