“Caressing the tiger” sometimes said of living with house cats. Oddly, Cheetahs are the only big cat that purrs like a house kitty.
We have a part time house in Oro valley, yet to see a bobcat.
Maybe if I went out back and popped a can of Fancy Feast?
I didn’t know that.
But I can assure you that bobcat can hiss just like a house cat.
Only louder.
Cougars purr too.
Worked with more than a few of them during my zookeeping years.
“God made the cat that we might caress the tiger’’.