Cheetahs as pets

>>2132322
>to produce minatuirzed pet cheetahs
what if you just produce really big domestic cats?

hmmm?
both parents contribute

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>>2132325
oh shit
you might be on to something
thats great anon
brilliant

its like a pet cat
but with spots maybe
and big
so it can protect you like a dog

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Oh boy, cheetahs!

Could big cats and domestic cats produce offspring if you created the embryo artificially or are they too different to do that?

>>2132598
They're too different.
Also, cheetahs are close enough to being domesticated anyway.

>>2132605
How so

>>2132342

Never enough leopards.

>>2132322

A serval is pretty close to what you want.

>>2132328
Savanna cats are already a thing if you're looking for what you just described. Servals crossbred with domestic cats.

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>>2132623
Cheetahs are fairly easy to tame, but unfortunately are hard to breed in captivity. They need tons of space for courtship rituals. I do wonder if it would be possible to selectively breed them to be less picky about mating. Then proper domestication would be possible.

>>2132342
>cheetah bro lost his meal in the end
fuck this gay world

>>2132322
cross breeding wouldnt work, the babies would bre non viable

You would be better off selectively breeding cheetahs for reduced size and tameness. or just flat out genetically modifying a cat egg with the cheetah genes you want

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>>2133130
>>2132739
see both of these options sound okay
its really just a money thing
cheetahs have a hard time breeding in general I know, so invitro and shit like that is really the ONLY option

>>2132328
Just get a fucking dog. Cheetahs are genetically doomed

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>>2133678
thats why we have to do all in our power to save them

>>2133664
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>>2133671
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>>2133676
thats badass
does he use the cheetah for hunting?

>>2133130
>>2132739
They are already so inbred i don't think it would work. At some point you get fucking clones.

>okay here me out
No.

>>2132322
cheetahs are already domesticated

Weren't cheetahs already domesticated?

>>2133659
my cat does that it's so cute

>>2138582
Yes. But they're terrible at breeding in captivity so it never took off.

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>>2135842>>2138582

they are?

>>2139726
SCIENTIFIC FERTILIZATION WHEN

>>2141239
Goddamn that is a beautiful cat. Wish someone had that in high res for a wallpap.

Savannah cats are already a thing:
http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/cats-101/videos/savannah/

Besides, any kind of cat, that is over 40lbs could pose a lethal danger to people. In many cases you can't even leave a regular domestic cat around babies and toddlers.

>>2141267
>Besides, any kind of cat, that is over 40lbs could pose a lethal danger to people. In many cases you can't even leave a regular domestic cat around babies and toddlers.

Americans do the same fucking shit with pitbulls, cheetahs are literally no different.

>>2141267
>Savannah cats are already a thing:
>Savannah cats
>cheetah
>Savannah cats
>cheetahs

Savannah cats=/= cheetahs
so......

>>2141441
not exactly. thought the physical risk would be the same, pitbulls are social animals, so they are trainable and are far more likely to listen than a 40lbs cat.

>>2132325
I would much rather have a cheetah than a really huge domestic cat

disposition is completely different, I would constantly fear for my safety around a giant housecat.

cheetahs are totally bros and pure kino

>>2143330
I would trust a cheetah in the wild before I would trust a random pitbull on the street.

the "unknown" factor in how they are going to behave is much higher with a pitbull than with a cheetah

Cheetahs are pretty fucking good pets already though.

Fun fact: Pretty much all big cats that aren't top of the food chain make awesome pets and generally do not attack (to kill or seriously maim, at least).
The ones that make shitty pets are lions, tigers, leopards, ocelots and panthers. Anything below them is usually more run than fight.
I'd personally love to get a serval but they're illegal in my country due to not being native.

>>2144323
ocelots could make good pets. cheetahs would not

>>2132623
Probably because every other dangerous thing in Africa wants to kill them and they realize that they're at the absolute bottom end of the predator pecking order. Who the fuck would want that life.

>>2144140
Meercheetah?

yall niggas postin in a b8 thread

Don't fuck with animals.
Pls kill yourself.

>>2147807
shhhhh, it reminds you not to take most /an/ posters srs.

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>>2147807
Nigga I'm just here to post cheetahs.

i often think cougars would make great pets. Captive ones meow and purr at their handlers, generally acting like big housecats. Then I saw one clawing quarter inch deep ruts into its solid wood scratching toy and remembered how often my cats nick me with their claws by accident, because they fall off something and grab me, or in play.

Still, some people have pet cougars.

>>2149261
Godspeed you, based Anon. I love Cheetahs.

>>2132325
thats even better desu

>>2134848
even asexual animals that reproduce with only one set of DNA eventually get genetic mutations, just happens slower

>>2141712
cheetah= a cat that lives in the savannah

>>2149333
>cat will sink her claws into pants or socks I am wearing to get me to pay attention
>if I am not wearing any she just grabs me with her arms
I like cats and everything, but I don't see the point in trying to make them bigger.

>>2132328
Protect you like a dog? Your poor sap. It would just kill you like every house cat has wanted to. They are just smart enough to not try when they can get launched like a frisbee.

>>2154356
Shut up fag

>>2146834
But anon, Ocelots are known to have one of the most vicious attack behaviours out of all wild cats.

Both cheetahs and ocelots are mesopredators, but Africa has superpredators while the rainforest doesn't (except for jaguars but they rarely interact, unlike cheetahs/lions, cheetas/hyenas, etc). This caused the ocelot to change it's behavior over time, they are basically a fierce vicious tiny killling machine.

http://www.phoenixexotics.org/CareSheet/Ocelot
"They have the remarkable ability to sense pressure points and seek them out during an attack. All small cats have certain target areas at which they strike. The ocelot tends to target the armpit, inside of elbows, groin and neck. This makes a simple bite from an ocelot a dangerous event. They also tend to repeat strike when deflected. If you block an ocelot jumping at you, he will usually hit the ground and rebound straight back at you. This is not the case with most other small cats, who are generally dissuaded by effective preventative action on your part."

"I once knew a man named Michael who had worked more than twenty years, hands-on, with tigers, leopards, jaguars, snow leopards, cougars, and all sorts of smaller cats [...] He told me the closest he ever came to dying was when he was attacked by an ocelot. He did not expect the level of aggression in the particular cat, since it was not typical for this individual."

>>2155026
just another reason why cheetahs are best
kek

>>2132322
Wut, genetically this would never work. It would be a still born. Just because they are cats doesn't mean they can breed...

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>>2155026
>target the armpit
>there's a cat near my armpit
>spooked

>>2155219
Thumbnail looks like a closeup of an ass taking a shit.

>>2132322
Cross breeding wouldn't work, but cheetahs are already pretty tame so it would only take a few generations. Biggest problems would be the amount of space it would need to run. Also, what would they be used for? Hunting? No reason to just domesticate them for the hell of it unless you're a soviet scientist.

>>2134824
>you will never be a san bushman who single handedly starts the movement to domesticate cheetahs and create useful hunting buddies

>>2134848
genetic engineering could be used to artifically increase the diversity.

Cheetahs really are natures bros.

>>2155806
They really are. They even chill with dogs.

>>2155789
>Also, what would they be used for? Hunting?
companionship

its its just space, someone should get it going
>>2155798
or to have king cheetahs that aren't genetically trash

>>2156495
Will they have little crowns and thrones?

>>2156514

a king cheetah looks like>>2141244
>>2141242


but crowns and thrones bread into their fur isn't a bad idea

>>2133130

cats don't lay eggs anon

>>2133662
Oh fuck, a barbed cat tongue ×20

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>>2133680

A house cat can already fuck you up when it's mad, I almost needed stitches because my friends cat decided that it wanted to attack me for no reason

>>2132322
The problem is that we haven't domesticated house cats yet sooooo... Yeah I'm theory it would be great but in practice it would be a disaster.

>>2156656
Top kek.

>>2133662
l-lewd

>>2165138
beautiful

>>2143404
cheetas are not really dangerous like a tiger or lion. you can fuck them up with a big dog or a punch in the fucking face.

>>2144323
No they do attack. Bobcats and lynxes are notoriously shitty.
Pumas are pretty good but they fact they are huge, that one swipe will send you to the hospital. Which is also weird that they are 'good' pets as far as wild felines go. Boncats and lynxes are very fearful and angry but pumas can be chill as fuck with strangers. When I lived in Texas growing up, neighbor had one that they took for fucking walks around the neighborhood. Became friends with daughter with the family who owned her. Shit was weird there. People having tigers in their goddamn basement.

>>2132322
wouldn't work, genetically house cats and cheetahs are way too distant to produce a viable offspring.

Also keeping a cheetah would be really stupid. as to domestication, if you wanted to do it via the soviet-fox route maybe, but I doubt there are enough left in the wild or even in captivity to have a large enough population for the selection process.

>>2132322
We have Savannah cats, which are a serval/domestic cat mix, that's close enough

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>>2155797
>you will never be a san bushman
thank fucking god in heaven

>>2132322
No thats a stupid idea we already have dogs and domestic cats you weird fuck.

>>2132322
Just as stupid an idea as wolf-dog hybrids.

Like "domesticated" wolves, they are awesome until they try to kill you.

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sup

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>>2170546
You will never ever cruise the wastelands

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>>2170547
beheading infidels with your lionbro by your side

I can see a pet cheetah being like a really large sighthound but lethal to humans. God forbid a child ever runs across your yard

OP sure likes his cheetahs :)

I thought Cheetahs were already on the way towards full domestication. They've been taming Cheetahs since Ancient Egyptian times, those tamed ones then spread out to the middle East and shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cheetah&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop#Interaction_with_human_beings

Wouldn't be fairly easy to domesticate the animals from those gene pools to the level of cats or something? Plus Cheetahs seem to have tamer personalities anyway.

>>2153485
>>2153485
This guy just doesn't grasp that a well trained cat = a happy cat.

Ditto for any domesticated pet, really.

>>2170603
They don't breed well. Otherwise they'd probably be as common as dogs. As they take to domestication well otherwise.

>>2170616
>>2170603
someone needs to just fucking invest in a cheetah breeding program
artificially inseminate them goddamnit
>>2170558
>his

>>2170554
cheetahs can be trained though, cant they?

>>2147807
but anon, if you had enough money anything could be a pet. cheetahs just happen to be a slightly more common exotic I guess for wealthy people.