Thread: Thai Fishing Cat

No need for broken glass on the top of your perimeter wall, just tether one of these bastards in the middle of the yard. Put ponds full of fish just out of reach to keep him angry

^^^They're found all over South and Southeast Asia. They are mostly found in lower regions with scrub brush, marshes, rivers and plenty of water - also in coastal areas.

Thanks for that location info. I would really like to see wild fisher cats.

^The one we used to have in our base camp in Aranyaprathet was picked up in Cambodia, and brought across the border by refugees, who sold it to one of my guys. I have no idea why he bought it. It just sat in a big cage and hissed at people. I finally got tired of it and had the guys take it out to the edge of the jungle and cut it loose. It was a mean bastard; big teeth and claws, and an attitude like my first wife.

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

It just sat in a big cage and hissed at people.

If I were a cat and put in a small cage I would be grumpy too and hiss at everybody.

Yes you wrote big cage but I doubt it was big to the cat.

^Precisely why I sent it on its way.

I don't think you can really tame a wild adult cat. Kittens, maybe. From what I have read of Scottish wild cats, even kittens are not certain to end up very tame, tho I guess it's got a lot to do with the person who keeps it(them).
Servals are supposed to make good pets, but they're not from around here.

Thailand’s Shrimp Farms Threaten Rare ‘Fishing Cats’
DAN HARRIS and JAKE WHITMAN
Apr 24, 2012


Credit: AFP/Getty Images

Normally, cats avoid water like the plague, but Thailand’s “fishing cats,” with their partially webbed feet and pointed heads evolved for diving, are built for hunting in the mangrove swamps and streams.

But this rare breed’s entire future could depend on the decisions made in, of all places, the frozen food section of the supermarket.

Biologist Namfon Cutter, who has researched these fiercely private animals for eight years, said she has only once seen one in the wild with her own eyes.

“In a way, that kind of makes it even more exciting, because you want to give them some respect,” Cutter said.

Cutter and her team of researchers head out in the jungle to monitor the fishing cats through camera feeds and radio collars. When they find tracks, they set up a camera and put out a trap baited with a piece of chicken. Cutter is now tracking and studying dozens of these fishing cats through camera feeds and radio collars.

Fishing cats only live in South and Southeast Asia and there are only several thousand of them left in the wild. One of the big culprits in their potential extinction is shrimp farms.

Shrimp farmers dig big holes and raise hundreds of thousands of shrimp, which are then sorted, put on ice and shipped out.

The farms threaten fishing cats in two ways, Cutter said. The first is that the cats are losing their natural habitat to metastasizing shrimp farms, and are sometimes driven to kill chickens belonging to local villagers. Then those villagers turn around and kill the cats.

Sometimes the animals Cutter and her team have been tracking for months simply disappear, she said.

“It’s very, very sad,” Cutter said. “You become attached to them and then when you lose them it’s very sad.”

Sad, and all too common. The solution, Cutter said, may rest right here in the United States. Many of the shipments from shrimp farms are bound for Iowa, New York, California, all over the country, and one way to help save the fishing cats, Cutter said, is to not buy any packages of frozen shrimp labeled “from Thailand.”

Cutter and the other fishing cat conservationists said they aren’t trying to shut down the shrimp farms, but just to get them to operate more sustainably and carefully. But what would really help, she said, would be a little pressure from us.

abcnews.go.com

hahahaha

These have had me chuckling especially the one of it licking the other cat.

The black and white moggy is shitting a brick.