Alie Ward
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Well, what about, I've always wondered, litter boxes in sanctuaries?
Yes, no.
Doing it on a ridge is like getting a billboard on Sunset Boulevard or something.
It's just like as high as you can go.
They want people to know they're there then.
They're not trying to be stealthy all the time.
It's like wonderful graffiti.
It's just like smelly, smelly graffiti.
And okay, when it comes to big cats, I should have asked this up top, megafelinology, what counts as a big cat?
Because I've seen Maine Coons that you should get a tax deduction for, bobcats can be tiny.
Where is the line, especially if you're a megafelinologist?
So the North American mountain lion, also called a puma, a cougar, sometimes a Florida panther, a catamount, meaning cat of the mountain, a painter, a deer tiger, or a mountain screamer,
Not all of those terms are scientific or scientifically accurate.
So the puma, native to North and South America, is not in the genus Panthera, but rather in the genus puma.
While learning this, I googled puma and a sponsored ad for pants popped up and I was sucked into the vortex of the German sportswear company Puma, only to find that pumas, as well as other big cats, do not live in
In fact, the company Puma was originally called Ruda, which was named for its founder, Rudolf Dassler.
His brother, Adolf Dassler, was also a fan of his own name and portmanteaus, and the founder of the company, Adidas, Adidas, get it?
Adolf Dassler, Adidas.
Eventually, Rudolf gave up the name thing and just named it Puma.
I don't know why.