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Kids Mistake Leopard Cub for New Pet Kitten -- Paw Nation


Offbeat  (tags: unusual, animals, kitten, children, animalwelfare )

Barbaroca
- 31 days ago - pawnation.com
Children in the Indian village of Bhatavar brought home a new kitten one night last week and played with the fuzzy feline throughout the following day. That is until they heard the kitty growl. "It was only when we heard it growling that we realized.."
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Barbarocat Kay (646)
Tuesday October 27, 2009, 11:10 am
What a crazy situation...
 

Gorilly Girl (371)
Tuesday October 27, 2009, 7:20 pm
LMAO.....uh mom I think we have a situatin here...LOL

Big Gorilly Hugs
 

JennyLynn W. (108)
Tuesday October 27, 2009, 7:27 pm
We always asked to keep the (fill in the blank). And sometimes it was a pony, even. We never had too many cats on the farm, but this one . . . . The story is hard to read because of the color scheme (see the story on black dogs ;) too), so here's the best part -
It's an age-old story: Kids find an adorable kitten, bring it home and plead "Can we keep it? Pleeeease?" But this time, the kitten wasn't just any cat.

Children in the Indian village of Bhatvadar brought home a kitten one night last week and played with the fuzzy feline throughout the following day, the Times of India reports. That is, until the kitty growled. "It was only when we heard the cub growling that we realized it was not a kitten, but a leopard," villager Bharat Sakat told the Times of India.
The striking, spotty big cats can weigh up to 200 pounds, sprint 36 miles per hour, and leap 20 feet forward in a single bound, the San Diego Zoo reports.

While they're undeniably adorable, the powerful predators clearly don't make great pets. Fortunately, the Indian villagers quickly figured out that they had a leopard on their hands. "Fearing that its mother might be nearby, we released it in the wild near where the children had found it," Sakat said.
So the next time your kids come home with a kitten, whining "pleeeease," remember that it could be worse.
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (251)
Wednesday October 28, 2009, 10:09 am
Thannxxx.. Oh Wow would love to have a pudditat like those little guys... I hope they have learned a hard lesson
 
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