She weighs less than three pounds, she makes you go aww, and she’s one of the best killers on the planet.

Gaia, an 8-month-old black-footed cat, is the newest resident at Utah’s Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City. She’s part of an effort to conserve her at-risk breed — a pint-size powerhouse species whose hunting prowess makes it the world’s deadliest cat...

Adorably big-eyed and smaller than a house cat, black-footed cats are far more successful at hunting than lions. They can jump up to five feet in the air and 6½ feet in distance; they kill eight to 14 meals per night and can eat 3,000 rodents a year....

Article here.

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They might be deadly to mice, but I would much rather be attacked by this midget wanna-be than this one!!

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Gary
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Reminds me of this one

From last month




The world's deadliest cat is deceptively cute. Meet Gaia

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Still Running Against the Wind

#2 kind of brings up the question of what is a proper/effective pistol/revolver round and bullet for such a cat? In fact I understand that cougars are becoming quite common close to settled areas of our far west. They are even being sighted in Texas.

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Jeez.... I must be getting senile as I don't remember posting that. "("I can't remember the last time I had a memory lapse", as one of my unov. profs. used to say.)

Still, a number of people seem to be enjoying it the second time around

Addendum: "I see what I did there." I had been reading a newer WaPo article on how Gaia was doing, which had a link to the earlier one and I posted the wrong one.

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I'll take two.

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SWCA #3356, SWHF#611

Yup, you just re-posted your own post from January 5th this year, word-for-word!

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Gunsmithing since 1961

Well, since it was a status update, seems legit. Cat videos are the reason for the Internet. That, and the profession Caje was posting tax tips about.

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50 Years of Wish You Were Here

Nowhere in the Rules or TOS does it put a limit on the number of times one can resubmit a thread. It's no different than resurrecting an old thread if it still has merit.

If there were such limits placed on pics and memes I would be exiled to the forum sin bin.

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LOL. The Department of Redundancy Department is fully operational

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At the risk of repeating myself... Oh, wait... I already did that

But here are some quotes and pics from the "Gaia update" article I thought I was posting above.





In addition to a specially formulated diet, Gaia gets to eat prey she would find in the wild: small and large rodents, rats and chicks...

“All three of the black-footed cats have seemed to really enjoy any of the prey items that are a little bit larger, that they can kind of rip up"...“She seems to enjoy the chicks.”

She appears to enjoy watching zoo visitors...and sometimes stalks them.

Once a week, she gets her favorite thing — a bone.“She really enjoys dragging the bone around and getting a little bit of meat off it”

And she hunts for hidden food — made of an appetizing mixture of ground bone, skeletal muscle and organs — and sharpens her claws on scratching posts...

Comments:
- Bruce Lee, Lawrence Taylor, and the looks of Audrey Hepburn!

- Her nickname is Murder Muffin!

A reader contributed a YouTube video



(And for another adorable wild kitty, I do remember posting something on Pallas cats some time ago.)

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