Comments on: Alaska’s Mystery Cat Captured

By: sschaper

sschaper — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:47:59 +0000

Wild breeds of the same critter as domestic cats ‘illegal’. What a crazy nation.

By: hudgeliberal

hudgeliberal — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:47:55 +0000

Beautiful cat though. I still just want science to know and admit that there ARE mountain lions in WV..they havent vanished. Peace.

By: jtm_kryptos

jtm_kryptos — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:44:23 +0000

i get fustrated with all these
‘the cat was a fake, circus escapee, cougar’ but i’m glad we don’t have to go on believing these things are real, when they aren’t thanks mr. coleman

JTM

By: Kitsos

Kitsos — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:53:40 +0000

Beautiful cats these Savanahs and Bengals. Despite my apprehension at most things hybrid, especially where mankind sticks its paws in (excuse the pun), I have to admit they are nice. And since they are hybrids this would answer the question of how they survive in non-African climates. The common cat is one of the most adaptable creatures around and these hybrids have maybe a maximum of 45% wild blood in them at best. Apart from being more adaptable it also makes them more docile and easier to be kept as pets. Heck…apparently most of them even like taking showers. And yes, Coelacanth1938, you are right, they SHOULD make some kind of guide for the “authorities”. Surely they could do with something new to read while devouring doughnuts, no?

By: coelacanth1938

coelacanth1938 — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:50:11 +0000

You know, if there are police handbooks and fire rescue manuals with instructions on how to handle UFOs landing, there should be something about capturing unknown and exotic animals too.

By: corrick

corrick — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:30:00 +0000

This is just another example of how complicated it has become to offer reasonable guesses as to what animals eyewitnesses might have seen and perhaps misidentified as an “unknown animal.”
In the past, generally, vagrants from relatively close geographic proximities made good candidates. However, given the explosion in the legal and illegal exotic animal trade those days are long gone. Alaska, Maine, Florida, South Africa, Malaysia, Peru or Australia, it doesn’t matter. Today, in almost anyplace, or any country you have to consider just about every animal on planet earth as an alternative to a completely “unknown animal.”

By: Spinach Village

Spinach Village — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:26:28 +0000

… yeah’ that definitly begs the question… poor kitty was trying to get back to africa…

No, seriously, this is an interesting case study… i’ve heard that it can be unpredictable in alsaka even in the summer

By: Goodfoot

Goodfoot — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:25:54 +0000

How big is this thing? Looks to be 2 1/2 to 3 feet in length. How could such a thing survive in Alaska? I know the weather’s not horrid yet in southen AK, but a partly AFRICAN cat?

By: Dj Plasmic Nebula

Dj Plasmic Nebula — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:16:56 +0000

Loren, don’t ya think it gets tiring finding out these cats are known? i sure do.:)

with lots of hope and faith for other living fossils and unknowns there is still hope for more.

I do know that who ever caught the cat could of lied and said it was a serval mix and gave pictures of the known one, but hid the unknown one.

other than that. Thanks for Supplying us these info.

Alaska is a cold place, an any unknown animal aummed tot he cold may still be living. For example:

any animal that thought to be extinct during the ice age. could of survive in the cold climates.

including iceland, russia, canada, Alaska, greenland, Antarctica, …

heck they probably can survive in South and North America.

Other Than that. we must never give up. Continue to search, hunt, and read. Let’s not let these misidentified animals stop us…. we must continue and seek and ye shall find.

i still think weeks or a week of searching for an animal is a better chance than one day.