TRAINED CAT !! ??

Video posted to YouTube by BengalTrainer.

“Trained or deluded? I’ll go with the later. Thinks it’s a dog. Oh well, cats still rock.”

Gypsy photo courtesy of KarenFayeth.

So there is hope for training a cat. Well we did see that with the Moscow Cat Theatre.

Our friend, Smiley Jo, is training her new kitty, Stella, to walk on a leash. So far so good! Amazing … There’s hope for the next furry feline we adopt.

This is a Stella look-alike, a Maine Coon.

The picture that follows is of the cat in the video. The owner’s say of him, “This is the smartest Bengal Cat in the world doing tricks. Bengal’s are half Asian leopard and half Egyptian Mau. The cat’s name is Bangie and this is a video of him doing tricks. A cat doing dog tricks.” 

It looks like the Gypster may have a point. Bengie may think he’s a dog. LOL!

RARE WHITE LION CUBS

Video posted to YouTube by CBS.”CBS News RAW”: Three rare white lion cubs born in the Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock safari park in West Germany were shown to the public and the media for the first time.

“I’m out-cuted again! They’re so darling, I don’t mind.”

Gypsy photo courtesy of Karen Fayeth.

Darling indeed and as adults they are handsome animals …

The white lion is occasionally found in wildlife reserves in South Africa and is a rare colormutation of the Kruger subspecies of lion (Panthera leo krugeri). It has been perpetuated by selective breeding in zoos around the world. White lions are not yet a separate subspecies and they have been said to be indigenous to the Timbavati region of South Africa for centuries, although the earliest recorded sighting in this region was 1938. Regarded as divine by locals,^[1] white lions first came to public attention in the 1970s in Chris McBride’s bookThe White Lions of Timbavati. Up until 2009, when the first pride of white lions was reintroduced to the wild, it was widely believed that the white lion could not survive in the wild. It is for this reason that, now, a large part of the population of white lions are in zoos. Another large part, however, are bred in camps, for canned hunting trophies. MORE [Wikipedia]

Photograph of African Lion (Panthera leo krugeri) living at ZOO Bratislava courtesy of Stano Novak under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license via Wikipedia.

MORE WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

Video posted to YouTube by BBC.

“A couple of those birds look … well …. ah …. interesting!”

Gypsy photographs courtesy of KarenFayeth.

A little more walk on the wild side as we move into Saturday seemed nice …

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

SEE YOU BACK HERE ON MONDY.

Love, Gypsy

Nap attack! That’s what weekends are for.