What is a SAND CAT???

Welcome to another edition of Big Cat Rescue's species spotlight.

We now take a look at one of our smallest residents as well as a very elusive feline that not a lot of people have ever seen in the wild or in captivity.

The sand cat is one of our favorites and hopefully will be one of yours as well. And this goes without saying but even though they are small they would not make a good pet.

Hopefully this video will inspire you to support feline conservation efforts around the globe.

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Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• sandcats
• sand
• cats
• sandcat
• cat
• big
• rescue
• desert
• lynx
• rare
• small
• tiny
• cute
• fierce
• adorable

[vampireodile]

i love the sand cat even though it's very aggressive. it's just so cute:) have there been any reported attacks from a sand cat to a human?

[BigCatRescue]

@vampireodile No that I know of, small cat species would rather hide.

[PunkdRebel]

So not the sorta kitty you can cuddle or stroke ? :P

[LadyKaliska]

I know they won't make good pets, but seeing what their natural diets are. I would love to cage up my five acres for a month and just let the sandcats exterminate the overpopulation of gophers on my property. ^_-

[AncaXBre]

Aww I want to hold them. I know it will bite me and i shouldn't do it anyway but I still want to. Can I at least get a cuddly toy that looks like them?

[Leebsterftw]

my kitten looks like that in the face but she is 100% domesticated cat, she is grey and white.. and a tom boy lol. I love this sand cats though I have never heard of them before but now i have the world seems a little more nicer to me.. the more animals the nicer.

[highball1963]

sand niggers have sand cats

[Dorfanable]

i would so donate to this if i could, i live in sweden unfortunately :( keep up the good work!

[BigCatRescue]

@licklehickle I'm positive it wouldn't be pleasant for you and especially for the sand cat!

[licklehickle]

@BigCatRescue ok i see what you mean, but domestic cats used to be wild cats. lots of domestic cats also have the ability to be dangerous and unpredictable. i guess nothing is really impossible, it just might not be pleasant having a sand cat as a pet i'm assuming.

[bunnylove114]

they remind me of the fence fox

[TorchicBlaziken313]

Domesticating sand cats wouldn't be worth the effort. We don't really know exactly how cats were first domesticated so it would be hard to replicate the process with sand cats. The aesthetic difference between cats and sand cats is even smaller than the difference between dogs and domestic foxes. People could always just make a new breed of cat that looks like a sand cat but isn't. Sand cats also have special needs that are difficult for people to provide, like a nice, sandy, arid environment.