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Warpy

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4. Love that video

Reply to keithbvadu2 (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 3, 2016, 10:18 PM

Jun 2016

because the cat was wild, young and an inexperienced hunter who only realized he was too big to eat when she(?) caught him, then wanted to play rough since he seemed to be OK with it.

He thought it was pretty special, anyway. Bet it happened a lot with cubs who'd wandered off. Eventually they found smaller ones who were easier to live with.

My best guess says that keeping a little smilodon cub was frowned upon by everyone.

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