I can imagine a burglar s******g his pants..

No problem if it's a cat burglar^^

Great StarClan! if i was the burglar I'd most likely just be like F*CK THIS SH*T I'M OUT

Was just thinking the same thing. Ultimate burglar alarm!

I was thinking the same!!!

In that case it would serve the burgaler right

100% Animals can generally sense intentions by humans. It obviously knows the people that took them in to care for him.. A burglar would not last long sadly in the sick sense of law it would probably be put down which makes me mad.

I can imagine that burglar won't be able to leave the house breathing...

Yes, when my mom suggested we declaw our cat, I told her no. Yes, its dangerous for a puma to be in the house with claws, but if you have to declaw an animal in order to keep it, that just shows you probably shouldn’t have it. Cats are upsessed with their claws, its their pride and defense mechanism. Someone might ask “Why does a cat need claws if they aren’t going to live outside?”. Well, there are threats inside a home too;mice, bugs, children that are bothersome, and a cat loses some confidence when you take away their claws because they feel unsafe with out their natural weapons.

It was raised in a zoo before it became their house guest. It would have never survived in the wild. Although I think their living conditions are too small for it, they do appear to be taking good care of it.

fair enough but in the end you should be angry at the zoo for domesticating in the first place. The family merely stepped in and did the right thing by looking after it. Putting it back in the wild would simply be a death sentence. If the couple took it out of the wild to domesticate it, it would be different. BUT they have done the right thing by the animal.

Then you clearly haven't paid attention to the story of Messi and I_Am_Puma. Messi is unfit to go back into the wild, and is actually incredibly small compared to other male Puma's. Do some research before saying this is wrong.

You're right about the declawing of animals, but how is it in any way wrong to take pictures with animals at a zoo or with your pets? But nobody says a thing about poachers on websites like Google, posing with dead innocent animals like wolfs, wild big cats and other wild animals on the extinction list. Sounds very a*s backwards to me. I rather see people taking pictures with LIVE ANIMALS THAN DEAD ANIMALS THAT THEY'VE KILLED FOR KICKS!

I guess in this case the needs of the animal are put before the needs of humans. Which i am a fan of. Humans are no more or less important. putting this animal in the wild after domestication is far more cruel. In this case the survival of the fittest is not a fair argument as the puma has already been domesticated by people. it would simply be a death sentence for the puma. The issue is with the zoo to begin with. This family has essentially stepped in to love a creature that has already been abused by people. Would you leave a house cat in the wild after being domesticated.

It appears that you imply that THIS puma has been declawed. That is not true. Watch a YouTube videos - this puma has its full claws which (claws) are taking care of in a proper way - the same as performed for any cat or dog in Canada by a vet clinic. Please also try to provide “why” posting photos or videos online is not a good thing?

It's not an unpopular opinion in my eyes. I only wish more people thought the same way.

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Big deal. Every single animal we domesticated started out as a wild animal at one point in history.

While it's not quite right and yes, pumas belong in the wild, the zoos here are bloody awful and cruel to animals. And that's big official zoos, I can only imagine how bad 'contact zoos' are where animals' job is basically to get poked all day. Perhaps they should've tried for sanctuary but to be fair, most sanctuaries here are under-funded and suffer from a wide variety of issues. There's no guarantee it would be better off there. So overall, I don't know. Lesser evil perhaps? Maybe they weren't being too selfless there but 2 very happy people and 1 moderately happy big cat sounds better than 2 moderately happy people and 1 very unhappy cat.

I have a domestic cat who has never encountered a prey animal. I had to go to great lengths to get him to notice an injured mouse in my kitchen. He picked it up, but then just stood there. If the instincts to hunt and take prey aren't fostered, and practiced, they disappear.

Stupid statement, considering they do not have a child

Where it would die...

I remember that they still love their animals. Kids can turn on you too, sometimes violently.

Yeah, that was a good day. Well done Tiger

much easier just to dispose of the animal and leave it to its own devices

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It's Russia. It'll end exciting.