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Pet lion escapes influencer’s home in Thailand, injures two, including 11-year-old boy
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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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.