The Metro.co.uk website headline is “Meet the loving domesticated wild cat who ‘hates being alone'”. As soon as you see the pictures of this beloved caracal you can see that he is obese. This is not right. Note: this article is in 2 parts with a link to the second part at the base of this section.
As expected, it is legal to own a caracal in Latvia. I’d expect fairly lax laws on exotic animal ownership in the Baltic states and Russia. The caracal is a medium-sized wild cat species. They are highly athletic. The kind of space that the male caracal requires in the wild is 220 square kilometres! And owners of these cats expect them to be happy living in a home or an enclosure of 25 square meters. The caracal inherits a desire to roam over large areas.
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Pumba lives with Deniss Jegorovs. Apparently, he hates being alone and joins Deniss to watch television. He screams when he is lonely. I bet that it is an intimidating sound. Denis feeds him three times a day. Right, great. He’s feeding too much or giving him treats in between feeds. And he’s not getting anywhere near enough exercise.
Deniss admits that Pumba wakes him in the morning and begs for food. He is terminally bored that’s why he begs for food. There’s your problem. He lives outside the home from mid-fall to mid-spring.
This whole account is creepy.. they show the caracal attacking the owner hissing with ears back and just stopping the attack at the last second as if he was scared – and they title it like “happy pumba says hello”. Obviously he’s not happy so I don’t know if the owner is lacking something in his brain and believes in what he writes or he knows exactly that pumba is not happy but he just posts these titles for views. What is also creepy is that they don’t talk to the cat at all, they just creep towards him with the camera not saying a word to interact, that’s another red flag. They also always ignore all the negative comments which are majority on their account. I’m almost certain they hurt him because that’s not normal that he attacks the owner and just crawles out the last second with his ears back. So sad that nobody investigates on that and all platforms just ignore the abuse reports on this account..
Thanks Alan. I like it when visitors agree with me!
I fully agree. What this Latvian is doing amounts to animal abuse. Personally I hope he forgets to have the cat’s claws trimmed so one day Pumba gets a good latch on Deniss and inflicts serious injury. Poetic justice for yrars of tormenting this beautiful wild creature.
Thanks mate for sharing your thoughts. Agreed.
That cat will be the end of him I look forward to the day when that happens because he’s too ignorant to see the truth for what it really is, you can’t take the wild out of an animal no matter how hard you try there’s a reason why people who run zoos don’t turn their backs on this cat because it’s a wild predator that goes for the throat or the back of the neck to kill its prey and good luck getting away from it because they can jump as high as 10 feet the equivalent of a tennis court fence ????♀️
Sorry I meant to correct my autocorrect and spelling errors but it was accidentally posted before I could and I don’t know how to edit it once posted.