How can you have a pet Cheetah while you are living in a car...those crazy Canadians eh. Oh and it might not even be a Cheetah... Woman living in car has pet cheetah stolen, says it's dangerous when hungry SURREY, B.C. (CP) - The investigation into a pet cheetah that disappeared from a car parked in this Vancouver suburb can now be classified as a "catnapping." But there's some question whether the spotted cat is actually a cheetah at all. Surrey RCMP put out a public appeal Wednesday after a Kelowna, B.C., woman reported the large cat had been taken from her parked car on Tuesday. Four callers reported seeing a man dragging the cat down the road on a leash. Police originally treated the disappearance as an escaped animal but now say it's a theft. The woman who owns the cat was visiting the Surrey area. She has been living out of her car and has no fixed address, police said. The owner told police the cheetah, named Loki, is tame but since it is on a special diet, the risk to the public will increase as he gets hungry. Animal experts are questioning whether the cat was a cheetah at all. The stolen feline weighs about 18 kilograms, while adult cheetahs can weigh between 36 and 64 kilograms. It's possible this could be serval cat, a smaller African spotted cat, said Peter Fricker of the Vancouver Humane Society. "It looks something like a cheetah but is smaller," he said. Serval cats, which weigh between 14 and 20 kilograms, are also in demand as exotic pets, said Fricker. Because it is not endangered, there is no federal law banning importation or ownership of exotic animals that are not endangered, unless forbidden by a local municipal bylaw. The humane society said Surrey's exotic animal bylaw needs to be strengthened to bar not just the sale and trade of such animals but the keeping of them as well. Fricker said zoos have been breeding exotics indiscriminately because of a public demand to see their cute offspring. But he said once they grow into adulthood, there's no place for them and they end up with private breeders who exploit the public's interest in owning exotic pets. "The result is a glut of exotics flooding the marketplace," he said. "It's disturbing. It's a huge public safety issue as well as a humane issue."
There was a dead jaguar or cheeta on 45 near Willis this morning one of my cop friends informed me. No one knows how the hell it got there. Wierd and sad.
listen...you might think that's sad. and in some respects it is. but the only cheetah i want patrolling my neighborhood is a dead one. particularly if i'm playing catch with my son in the front yard.
You can try and fight it MM, but i'm leading the campaign to have Cheetahs introduced into the ecosystem of Texas to keep the deer population down. Soon all of the greater Houston metro area will be crawling with 110 pound 70 mph cats.
I think it is sad because you have to assume it was probably in transit to some hunting ranch or something and fell out on the highway. A noble animal meant to be stalking the African plains dropped on Highway 45 to get run over by an F-150. That is sad. Do I want to be attacked by wild animals.... no.
+ Poor kitty. (there is some weird roadkill out there these days. Out here near Medina, we saw a big dead animal in the road that had a rodent's face. I think it was a capybara. People were slowing down and backtracking to look at it. I didn't know roadkill could be such a tourist activity.)
Kind of off topic but a guy I knew had a 15 foot python. He took it with him in his car(in the back seat),went out/got plastered, passed out in the driver's seat, and his snake took off out an open window while he was parked in some parking lot passed out. He never found or saw the snake again. This was in Houston. I couldn't believe he could be so stupid but he was. True story.
I was hoping you were going to say he woke up in the snakes belly. Regularly passing out in a car with a 15 foot python cannot be good for your insurance rates.
A 15 foot python is pretty small/short/young. The length of a fully grown python is in the range 25 ft to 30 ft (maybe longer).
It was a big snake. 15 feet is probably conservative. It was in the 15 to 18 foot range(sorry...I don't have exact measurements). It was easily big enough to eat a small baby or animals. It was not a small snake. Let's put it this way...I once stood out in the front yard of this guy's home while he stretched it across the yard and it was huge. He put a small portion of the snake around my shoulders. This snake was big. It could easily have turned on the master and killed him. It doesn't take a very big snake to kill a human being by constricting him. But, this snake would have had no problem killing a full size human being. You wouldn't have been able to come anywhere close to pulling the snake off of anyone if it wrapped around someone and began the death constriction.
Why do these people need these exotic pets? What's wrong with a traditional house cat, dog, fish, goat (we have a herd of them, they keep me from having to mow but once a month or so) or Vietnamese pot-bellied pig (we have two, smartest animals around and very affectionate)? Why would anyone want any kind of pet that could eat them? I was watching a program on Animal planet about how a couple of guys with those evil reticulated pythons were attacked and nearly eaten by their "pets." God, that is insane.
Is my lack of pythonic knowledge any reason to stick your toungue out at me? The only python I know anything about: "Tis but a flesh wound!" "Do you have any Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?" "Finlandia Finland....the country where I'd like to be..." Hey Bamaslamma - I am thinking about getting some PB pigs. Can they be potty trained?
Yes, they can be potty trained. This site will tell you everything you need to know about them, if you're interested. http://www.pigs4ever.com/PotBelliedPigInfo/FAQs.htm
I mean who the heck would want to be the first human being consumed by their pet cheetah or reticulated python? I've always hated snakes and never understood how someone could have one as a pet.
Salvador Dali had a pet Cheetah, he didn't drive around with him in a beat up car though. The cat was a great pet until he unexpectedly melted one day.
I had a snake growing up....a Burmese Python. You could never keep him happy in his cage. I had this screen top that clamped down with clamps and he used to rip the tip of his mouth up(yes...where his heat sensors are) trying to get out. He would use all his singular muscle and push with all his might until his face scraped the screen. It would always keep me up at night(I guess I needed a much bigger cage but he had room). Anyway, I started just letting him out in my room and put a towel under the door so he wouldn't get out(but he always did). I would have to search the whole house for him and find him in the weirdest places(e.g. a box full of string with him at the very bottom). So, eventually the snake got an infection called Spirochetes(or whatever) and his mouth was all swollen. He couldn't eat or move for a good while. So, I had to shove an eye dropper in his mouth to feed him liquid food and administer medicine(which he would drizzle out of his mouth all over the place). Eventually, I think I cured him and he was all better eating again. But, then he mysteriously died one night and when I found him the next morning it looked like he suffocated himself(probable suicide) because he was flat. So, I buried him behind my garage rather than take him to a taxidermist. I think I may have told this story before(deja vu). Anyway, I've killed many mice and rats in my lifetime(i.e. a mouse holocaust). It got pretty sad after a while to where I would go long periods without feeding him(not that long). But, he died so I was spared any more feedings. It started out being fun feeding a snake. It quickly became a repetitive nightmare. Unless I was running a zoo or had a huge cage, then I wouldn't raise a snake again. I've seen some of the meanest snakes you would ever come across. I've also seen some of the tamest(e.g. my burmese). The reticulateds can be d*cks. What I learned from my experiences is snakes belong in the wild. Surf
