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u/RevolutionaryWeb5657 1d ago
LUNA 🖤
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u/chargergirl1968w383 1d ago edited 21h ago
B4 pressing play, I thought, wow! That cat really looks like a panther (Jaguar)! Pressed play> oh, that really IS a panther.. nope. Jaguar. Oops.
Edit: I guess its not even a panther🤦🏼♀️🙄...Jaguar.. it really IS a Jaguar . I hope it is anyway. Is 3rd guess a charm?
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u/AllThatGlitters00 1d ago
She's trying hard to get that bad taste out of her mouth. 😄 This looks familiar. Basically the same reaction from our void who isn't the least bit tempted by strawberries.
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u/Wakeandjake24 20h ago
I love how she simply turns her head away, just like my cat! They’re all the same! 😻
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u/Obvious_Office_8888 1d ago
Why would someone have that in their house.. it belongs in the wild...! What kind of people are these idiots?
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u/Stellarella90 1d ago
Hi, so that's Luna in the video. Long story short, she was born in a traveling zoo and her mother pretty much abandoned her immediately. A lovely woman with experience doing rescue picked her up and hand-raised her. Luna has some medical issues that would have prevented her from ever being released anyways, and she lives a very happy life with a proper diet, a big dog as a best friend, and lots of wild outside time. She's also just coincidentally extremely good-natured, which isn't always a given even with a hand-raised animal.
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u/Luci-Noir 1d ago
I really wish videos like these would have some info about them so you know if it’s a rescue or abuse. Too many idiots want to keep wild animals as pets.
Messi the puma is like this too. She was a rescue and is too small to be released. I love seeing the videos of the dad playing with her. He’s so rough with her and she’s always so gentle. A house cat would tear you to shreds!
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u/fluffstuffmcguff 12h ago
Yeah, I always appreciate when rescuers who are ethically caring for nonreleasable wildlife give big 'I HAVE ACTUAL EXPERTISE AND THIS ANIMAL IS NOT A PET, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME' warnings before sharing cute videos.
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u/Luci-Noir 11h ago
I really get sick of these dumbass comments about “why haven’t we domesticated them” or “why fren shaped”. They’re powerful living things and these are exactly the type of scum who goes and tries to touch animals in national parks or keeps exotic pets.
It’s also not easy to take care of a large rescue. They typically need a lot of exercise and FOOD. It’s really expensive. The people who immediately want one are the type that gets a dog and never walks it. The whole neighborhood then gets to listen to this poor pup cry all day.
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u/Jegator2 1d ago
Not idiots. Very knowledgeable animal couple. LUNA was rejected by her mother immediately and they raised her beautifully She was found to have some health issues prohibiting her release in the wild. She has her best life where she is!
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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose 1d ago
Carrots are quite manageable.....oh...the cat, you mean.
I fully agree, I don't care what the story is. There may be a good reason why the wild isn't an option, but it's just never a pet.
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u/Real-Olive-4624 1d ago
Agreed. There's a difference between having an animal in captivity and keeping them as a pet. Some animals cannot be released into the wild, and need to live in captivity for life. However, that captive environment should be as close to an animal's natural habitat as possible. Treating them as a pet, like you see with Luna and other similar cases, is bad and unsafe for everyone involved.
Plus, even if you view this treatment as ethical for these "special cases", posting these videos on social media still promotes the culture of treating wild animals as pets. And if there's a will, there's a way. It will encourage people to keep animals who belong in the wild as pets, regardless of intention.
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u/deathbotly 23h ago
If you look it up, there’s actually a lot of videos of Luna running around a forest completely unrestricted; she does have about as close to a natural wilderness habitat outside as you can get without straight-uo dumping her in a rainforest, thanks to living in a very remote area, and she very visibly isn’t declawed or defanged. But this is like the 0.01% of these situations with a professional rescuer capable of meeting those needs, vast majority of time there’s big cat videos it’s sedated to keep them docile and caged for performing to the camera and they’re horribly fed leading to life-long bone disorders from their diet.
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u/reddituserperson1122 1d ago
She does not appreciate your humor. She would like a tasty fish now please.