{"id":3770,"date":"2019-10-22T03:13:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T11:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2019-10-22T03:13:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T11:13:41","slug":"newsday-tuesday-on-the-wild-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3770","title":{"rendered":"Newsday Tuesday \u2013 On the Wild Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_6619-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_6619-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_6619-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_6619-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Those of us who adore our fur-babies (our house cats) are also fascinated by those cats that still live wild. I read last week that the domestic cats shares 95-96% of the same DNA with the tiger. Here\u2019s a cool site that demonstrates the similarities between the \u201cmini-me\u201d cats in our homes and wild cats. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonetreevet.com\/blog\/wild-and-domestic-cats\/\">http:\/\/www.lonetreevet.com\/blog\/wild-and-domestic-cats\/<\/a> Once you really grasp <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NewYorkAli4Birthday-075-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NewYorkAli4Birthday-075-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NewYorkAli4Birthday-075-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NewYorkAli4Birthday-075-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>how closely related your fur-babies are to their ancestors in the wilds, you may never look at her the same again.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you aren\u2019t aware of how many varieties-species of wild cat there are. I\u2019m constantly surprised to learn of a wild cat I haven\u2019t heard of before. I\u2019m familiar with <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ExoticCatSanctuary-239-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ExoticCatSanctuary-239-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ExoticCatSanctuary-239.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>the margay, the ocelot, the serval, even the Pallas cat, but I hadn\u2019t heard of the Eurasian lynx, the flat-headed cat, the Chinese mountain cat or the kodkod. Yes, that\u2019s a cat, too. Check out this site and learn some crazy stuff about cats you may have never heard of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/unusual-wild-cats\/?utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=organic\">https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/unusual-wild-cats\/?utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=organic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This site introduces the Eurasian lynx. Interesting and beautiful creature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutanimals.com\/mammal\/eurasian-lynx\/\">https:\/\/www.aboutanimals.com\/mammal\/eurasian-lynx\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another site listing even more wild cats and showing photos. According to this site, there are around 44 species of wild cat in the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitty-cats.blog\/types-of-wild-cats\/\">https:\/\/www.kitty-cats.blog\/types-of-wild-cats\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who adore our fur-babies (our house cats) are also fascinated by those cats that still live wild. I read last week that the domestic cats shares 95-96% of the same DNA with the tiger. Here\u2019s a cool &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3770\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}