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In reply to the discussion: Your Sunday LOLcats (dial-up warning) Train Wrek Edition [View all]glowing
(12,233 posts)of the reference sites in my post so that more people could tag onto the sites to see more pics and their history and regional living areas. Thanks for including the Wikipedia page site... Now, more can jump over to the site and learn about these wonderful looking cats.
Even though they are one of the "smaller" cats compared to say a lion, they have such a regal look about them. Their face seems to be painted in a manner to draw one in. Such a beauty (like many of Africa's wonderful animal species). It's no wonder to me that they were an Ancient Egyptian favorite. I also see there are very few in actual captivity, but that some "wealthy tools" around the world do decide to keep them as pets (I guess the wealthy, elites are not so different than Egyptian Phaoroahs and Queens). It's sad to me that anyone would keep them as pets; to take them out of their home in Africa to be caged and "domesticated" like a trophy.
It's also how I feel about caging birds. I couldn't imagine being stuck as a bird in a cage never to fly in the sky. Could u imagine how we would feel stuck in a cage (jail isn't the nicest place for humans and its a form of punishment that we incarcerate people in cages with no freedom.