…well, it caught me at my grandmother’s place, sadly I can’t take him home with me.

  • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 小时前

    Hey OP my family recently lost our cat and this looks A LOT like like him. You didn’t happen to find him in West Virginia in the US did you??

    • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip
      7·
      7 小时前

      Is that what it comes from? A friend of mine has a cat with that name, and I thought it sounded interesting but never knew what it was from.

      I’ve also never seen LK2.

        • catbum@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 小时前

          But have they seen The Lion King 3???

          Jk, I’m always reminded of the Mandela effect when I hear about LK2, even being well aware of LK 1 1/2 lol. Where did LK3 go?!?!

  • starlinguk@lemmy.world
    31·
    10 小时前

    Some cats go outside. This is a very healthy looking cat, so I’m sure it has a home. Don’t steal cats.

    • STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.worldOP
      18·
      8 小时前

      No collar or chip; i’ve asked the neighbors and checked for missing pet posts online, but nothing came up for this guy.

    • Alk@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      10 小时前

      Every outside cat turned into an inside cat is a good thing. Cats are invasive and annihilate local ecosystems.

      • TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today
        16·
        9 小时前

        Invasive outside of Africa and Eurasia yes, but housecats and African/Eurasian wildcats aren’t separate species.

        Considering their username ends with UK I’m going to assume they’re from the UK where cats have been around longer than humans. As long as they’re neutered to avoid feral colonies cats are fine outside here.

        • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          17·
          8 小时前

          housecats and African/Eurasian wildcats aren’t separate species.

          They absolutely are, I’m not really sure what you’re talking about. Domestic cat: Felis catus, European wildcat: F. silvestris, and African wildcat: F. lybica. Hybridization with pets risks their genetic diversity, outcompetition, and disease transmission: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/60354712/50652361#threats

          the UK where cats have been around longer than humans

          Cats entered the UK around the same time humans did, via Doggerland during the Holocene. It should also be noted again that this is the European wildcat (specifically the Scottish wildcat subspecies), not domesticated cats, which descend from African wildcats. Domesticated cats only reached Europe a couple of thousand years ago. Their population density in comparison to wildcats and the advantage they have in access to human spaces and wild spaces means they reproduce more, which is part of why the Scottish wildcat is critically endangered.

          It’s fine to have cats, it’s not fine to just invent facts about how they don’t actually harm the environment.

            • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              3·
              3 小时前

              That focuses on predation without examining the threat to native wildcats through hybridization, territorial competition, and disease transmission from domestic cats, which the IUCN cites as risks to wildcat species. If no outdoor cat ever killed another prey animal again, that still wouldn’t solve the threats they pose to wildcat species.

              • Lemmywinks@lemmy.world
                1·
                3 小时前

                It’s funny how eugenics is widely accepted to be a bad thing when applied to humans, but for some reason “genetic purity” is still lauded for plants and animals.

                The real threat to wildcats comes from humanity destroying their habitat (which is why the European wildcat, once endemic to the whole of Britain, is now only found in the north of Scotland). I’d personally imagine that hybridization is preferable to genetic extinction, as far as the wildcats themselves are concerned.

                Also, like I said, Scottish wildcats are no longer found in the vast majority of Britain (through no fault of the domestic cat), so unless OP is in a particularly rural area of northern Scotland it’s a completely moot point either way.