What is your favorite WILD cat?

I should be expected to say the "asian leopard cat", since it is the ancestor of the bengal cats we love and breed, but my favorite is the Clouded Leopard.
A truly amazing animal!

Here's a link to a picture of one:

CLOUDED LEOPARD

What is your favorite wild counterpart to your domestics?

I've always loved lions! I just think they are awesome

I like cheetahs. They are so graceful and beautiful. Also so fragile.

When I used to have satellite TV, I would always watch "Big Cat Diaries" on Animal Planet and always cheered for the cheetahs.

That Clouded leopard is beautiful!

I think mine would be snow tigers




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I love the Lions as well. They seem so calm and commanding of respect.
I like the cute little puma and bob cats too. They just seem impish.

Siberian Tigers, followed closely by Snow Leopards.

Snow leopard, hands down.

Tigers leave me awe struck!

Originally Posted by laureen227

they are all so beautiful - but i'm also a tiger fan. their coloring is just so wonderful! i wonder if there will ever be a domestic cat with that black/orange combo. i guess if there was, it would have to be female!

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There is, they are called a Toyger

Indeed. They're working on it .

Toygers

toygers.org

I love all the varieties of tigers. They are probably my favorite but I love lions for their majestic look and aura of mystery. Heck, I just love ALL big cats.

I think Panthers are gorgeous!

Lions and snow tigers, they are soooo cute.

I've seen two large cats that have seriously tugged at my heartstrings, although they're in a refuge so not really "Wild", but not "tame" either.

Vada is a black Indian leopard: http://www.turpentinecreek.org/KittyCorner/vada.htm
Kurlee is a lion: http://www.turpentinecreek.org/KittyCorner/kurlee.htm

Also, if any of you are interested in a Bed & Breakfast w/ the Big Cats, check out this link: http://www.turpentinecreek.org/

Other cats are listed under the Kitty Corner section of this web page if anyone's interested in looking 'em over.

I'm trying to get there myself, but had a couple of financial set-backs. LOL

Dawn

Leopards. Hands down.

They are simply amazing, incredibly intelligent, and utterly gorgeous.

I have a Bengal, too, but I'd say I love the White tiger. Is that the same or similar to the Snow Tiger?

I'd have to go with jaguars, although I adore anyone in the cat family.

I love all big cats ... I had posters on my walls of them in my youth... my faves are sumatrean (sp?) tigers and mountain lions

Originally Posted by HopeHacker

I have a Bengal, too, but I'd say I love the White tiger. Is that the same or similar to the Snow Tiger?

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I've never heard of a snow tiger, so I'm assuming that it refers to the white mutation of Indian and Siberian tigers (other species as well, I'm sure).