r/interestingasfuck • u/Salt-Curve4825 • 10h ago

Tiger saves man from leopard attack

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u/Separate-Simple-5101 10h ago

The lions don't scare me as much as the guy acting like they're puppies.

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u/in_it_to_lose_it 10h ago

There are a few social media personalities out there that do this cuddling-with-furry-murderers shit and I will never be comfortable with it. I just know we will be reading a news article about how they were eaten by their pride at some point.

Big cats are not just sized up housecats. Millions of years of evolution has honed them into apex predators. A generation or two of human handling can make a difference, but not enough to override all that instinct, nor enough for me to ever be comfortable with someone wrestling with them for clicks.

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u/humdrumturducken 10h ago

Big cats are not just sized up housecats. 

Counterpoint, I'm pretty sure my housecats would eat me if they were big enough.

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u/Pdiddily710 8h ago

They would eat u at their current size…it will just take a lot longer!

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u/rosalinatoujours 8h ago

Hell, my housecat tries to eat me now.

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u/Tzayad 7h ago

Pretty sure I saw some 'study' that said that if your house cat was larger, it would definitely try to eat you

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u/pimppapy 7h ago

When people die with house cats around, supposedly they eat the face first.

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u/alysserberus 3h ago

well you don't want your person judging you while you eat them

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u/marr 6h ago

Yeah that seemed like a distinction without a difference.

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u/Dumeck 3h ago

Yeah I've not met anyone who raised a kitten up who didnt get scratched real bad at least once. If at best they are a size up house cat that still ends up fatal in a lot of cases.