How small do you need to be to ride a cat? (lemmy.world)

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I mean they're not like horses I don't think they could carry a proportional tiny house amount of weight.

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[-] maxalmonte14@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Really? I mean, humans can ride horses and I think aa horse would struggle to eat an adult human being. For this example I am assuming that horses are predators and as such are equipped with claws and fangs of course.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 36 points 6 days ago

Pumas and lynxes both go after things that are outweigh them several times over, so I maybe wouldn't count myself safe if I were small enough to ride a domestic cat

Also anecdotally, having lived with pet cats most of my life, god damn they are fast and they're stacked with more knives than the average kitchen. I would not want to fight a cat that was bigger than me.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

If a domestic cat with claws intact wanted to kill you, it would be hard to stop it.

I’ve only had brief encounters with truly angry cats, and they are nasty. One did a single swipe with its paw at my hand and just scooped out a chunk of flesh like I was made of soft serve ice cream.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

Animals fight all-out. Humans usually don't. If you were in a real fight for you life with a house cat--or even a bobcat--it would be pretty easy win for a human. Lynx or larger? No.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago

Bobcat or lynx, we lose. They stalk their prey, and you wouldn't know until it was too late.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

True, the human’s fight level would increase as death approached so a cat probably couldn’t kill them after all.

But a cat could probably blind a human before the human realized how serious shit was.

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