htmlOn September 15, a woman living in Liaoning picked up a stray kitten at her doorstep. It looked very thin and had injuries on her body. Because she was worried that the kitten would not survive alone in the wild, the woman took it home and took good care of it.
As the kitten recovers slowly, its mental state is getting better and better. However, at this time, the woman found that the kitten she picked up was a little different from a normal kitten.
First of all, this kitten does not eat cat food. It only likes to eat meat, and it is very fierce. The woman has raised it for several days. It is not a relative at all, and she also likes to grin at people.
Secondly, looking at it, it looks different from a domestic cat. Not only does it have bigger ears, but the patterns on the body are also very special, and it doesn't look like an "ordinary cat". All of this made the woman suspect that the kitten she picked up might have a different background.
So she quickly searched for relevant information on the Internet. She didn't know if she didn't check it. She was shocked when she checked it. Where was a cat she picked up, but a national second-class protected animal .
The woman hurriedly called the local relevant department and asked professionals to come and deal with it. Then, the staff of the local forestry department rushed to the scene. After identification, it turned out to be the "little leopard cat" who escaped from the forestry department a few days ago.
Seeing this, the expert was worried about the woman because although the "little leopard cat" looks very similar to a domestic cat, it is the "king" in the ecosystem. As a carnivore, its personality is very fierce and can attack people.
It can be seen from this that if the woman continues to feed this "wild cat", when it grows up, it will threaten the safety of the owner.
So, what exactly is a little leopard cat? Why do experts say it is the "king" in the ecosystem?
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In my country, The distribution of leopard cat is actually very wide, and they are almost everywhere in the mountains and forests from south to north. Because their main food is mainly small mammals, birds and insects, and they occasionally go to human homes to steal poultry, so many leopard cats' habitats are located near human living areas.
This causes the leopard cats to give birth to their cubs. When they go out for food, if they don’t return for a long time, the hungry little leopard cats will leave their nests and go out to find their mothers. In this way, they will easily appear on the side of the road because they look like stray little cats. If they meet a kind-hearted person, they will pick them up and take them home for feeding. This is how this woman in Liaoning picked up the leopard cat.
In fact, people basically pick up small leopard cats every year. For example, in June this year, a resident in Changbai Mountain in Jilin found a "little kitten" at his doorstep, which seemed to be only more than one month old. Just like the situation encountered by this woman in Liaoning this time, after raising her at home for a few days, she found something was wrong, so she contacted the local nature conservation center. After confirmation, she found that she had picked up an elves cat cub.
Also in April this year, a villager in Dehong, Yunnan actually picked up a litter of "little cats" in his sugarcane field. After feeding them with milk for a few days, the villagers found that they did not look like ordinary domestic cats, so they contacted the county's wildlife shelter station. Later, after the staff's identification, these "little cats" turned out to be leopard cats.
From here, we can see that it is not rare to pick up leopard cats on the roadside. Many people tend to treat leopard cats as kittens abandoned by others and take them home to raise them. This shows how dangerous this behavior is.
So the question is, why do experts say it is the king of the ecosystem? How scary is it?
Before answering this question, let’s look at two cases:
In 2017, a villager in Menghai County, Yunnan also picked up a kitten on the side of the road. Although from the appearance, the kitten looked strange and did not look like an ordinary kitten, the villagers did not take it seriously, but continued to take it home to feed.
As a result, as the kitten grew bigger and bigger, the chickens raised by the villagers began to become their hunting targets. If they were not careful, the chickens at home would be bitten to death by the kitten. Moreover, the villagers also found that the kitten could swim and often went to the river to catch fish and eat them.
In this way, he became more convinced that what he picked up was not an ordinary kitten. At the same time, because the kitten was very wild, the villager almost got bitten by it several times. In the end, in order to avoid a more serious incident, the villager took the kitten to the local forest police and realized that what he picked up was a protective animal leopard cat. He was already very lucky.
And in 2020, Grandma Liu, who lives in a small village in Guangdong, went for a walk on the mountain behind her home as usual. Suddenly, she heard the cries of small animals in the grass on the side of the road. When she got closer, she turned out to be a "little cat" that looked very pitiful. Grandma Liu picked it up and wanted it to be a companion with her.
As a result, when this "little cat" grew up, the chickens, ducks, geese, and many little rabbits raised by Grandma Liu's family were bitten to death by the cat one after another. Grandma Liu wanted to discipline it, but she didn't expect that she actually raised a "white-eyed wolf". Not only did she look fierce at Grandma Liu's eyes, but she also acted to pounce on and bite Grandma Liu.
Now Grandma Liu was scared and hurriedly contacted the local forestry bureau, hoping to come to the house to confirm what kind of animal this was. It turned out that Grandma Liu picked up an elves cat.
From here we can see that leopard cats are a very dangerous animal and they are extremely aggressive. Therefore, if we feed leopard cats blindly, they will attack their owners when they grow up. For everyone's safety, the messenger does not recommend that everyone feed wild animals at will. After all, most wild animals are wild. If we handle it improperly, they may be injured. If you encounter small animals in the wild that need help, it is recommended that you hand them over to professionals to deal with them so as not to be harmed by them. I am the messenger of singularity. Follow me. The next issue will be more exciting.
