I want a Sand Cat

Cute little Sand Cat at the Birmingham Zoo.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• sand
• cat
• birmingham
• zoo
• africa

[wendi69]

why don't you go find someone to harass who actually does have a large cat for a pet and really needs your advice; someone who doesn't come from a family of environmentalists and scientists? plenty of THEM on youtube. a word of advice - if you want someone to actually listen to you, try learning some manners.

[wendi69]

once and for all, i don't actually want to keep an effing sand cat in my home, nor do i really like the idea of keeping them in captivity at all. you have no idea whether or not, or how i support large cats in their natural environment, or support natural environments in general. making judgements about me based on one thing i said in one video (that you took the wrong way) makes it very difficult for me to take anything you say seriously.

[NonnyMus1]

No, you don't want a Sand Cat. They are wild animals. They will bite you and scratch you if you get anywhere near them. They will mark anywhere they are with urine - day and night - without ceasing. Your home will smell awful since their urine is incredibly strong smelling.

No, you do NOT want a Sand Cat. How about doing something constructive such as working to or contributing toward preserving their natural habitat in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Northern Africa?

[wendi69]

@NonnyMus1 yeah, i totally wanted one to keep in my house...that's definitely what i meant. thanks for sharing.

[NonnyMus1]

@wendi69 I thought that's what you meant since you didn't write something like, "I want to start a fund so my local zoo can get a Sand Cat" or, "I want to sponsor a Sand Cat at Big Cat Rescue". You're welcome!

[wendi69]

@NonnyMus1 ??? This IS the local zoo! What do you think it is?

[wendi69]

@wendi69 actually, one of the features of the written language is that it contains subtlety, nuance, sarcasm, poetic license, allegory, and many other ways to not mean literally what you say. for instance when he says "i want you to squeeze my lemon until the juice runs down my leg"  i believe he is not actually talk about a lemon. ya think?

[HelloSMILEEE]

free the sand cats

[huber2008]

that cat has death in it's eyes

[averyellis]

@NonnyMus1 THIS *IS* THE LOCAL ZOO, IDIOT.

[averyellis]

@averyellis and that's a compliment to you.

[averyellis]

@NonnyMus1 you are not worth responding to, but your language makes it impossible. either you're a troll or ... i hate to use a word already used, but dense. i pick troll.

[NonnyMus1]

@34london lol. I guess I'm stupid - or maybe I'm just really dense. I guess I'm too stupid to tell - or maybe it's that I'm just really dense so I can't tell.

One of the features of written language is that it is meant to be taken literally. That's just the way it is. "I want a Sand Cat" means that she wants a Sand Cat. No other meaning is 'obvious'. If she meant something else, she should have written something else. To do otherwise is just stupid... or maybe it's just really dense..

[34london]

@NonnyMus are you stupid or just really dense? It's just an expression. She obviously meant it such as "oh they are very cute." learn to not take everything so literally.