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Pet lion escapes influencer’s home in Thailand, injures two, including 11-year-old boy
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house cats wouldn’t need to be much bigger to be very dangerous to humans
Right!? I've always thought about that. My beloved kitty is a total psychopath. I can only imagine being a villager in ancient times, somewhere in the big cats range. Every night the kitty comes out to play. Fucking terrifying.
The shit I've seen my cats do to rodents... Like, I want to call the cops or something but just go inside, stoicly hiding my fear.
Thirty minutes later, one's on my lap purring...
Good kitty...
I mean dangerous is a scale, but not really.
Cougars are the only smaller type of cat that could be "dangerous" in the sense you're going from scratches to actual chunks of skin coming out and a chance of death and that's going to be 5x more mass than a house cat.
Cougars are closer to 10x the weight of a house cat. Based on the square-cube law, that makes a cougar only about twice as big as a house cat in any given dimension. Going off the numbers on Wikipedia and the cat lying beside me, it checks out.
It's kind of terrifying the difference 2^3^ makes.