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1. on December 15, 2012 at 7:49 am bearcoatpei

   With risk of making myself look clueless, it looks suspiciously domesticated to me.

   
   
   • on December 15, 2012 at 8:28 am retrieverman

     It’s a wild species or subspecies. Or whatever.

     I will give you that.

     
     
2. on December 15, 2012 at 9:54 am peg4x4

   Cute,whatever it is.
   Looks like a Bengal Cat kitten.

   
   
3. on December 15, 2012 at 10:30 am peg4x4

   Waitaminnet!! That is not a domestic nose!
   Off to Google******

   
   
4. on December 15, 2012 at 10:34 am massugu

   Looks a bit like a Fishing Cat, but the spotting’s not right.

   
   
5. on December 15, 2012 at 10:49 am Suhail

   Asian Leopard Cat (perhaps crossed with my neighbours tabby).

   
   
6. on December 15, 2012 at 12:28 pm Chad

   This looks like a Pampas Cat (Leopardus colocolo), from South America

   
   
7. on December 15, 2012 at 1:48 pm peg4x4

   Found it on Google-Chad’s right! (He is,isn’t he??)

   
   
   • on December 15, 2012 at 3:38 pm massugu

     Yep the pattern matches for a Pampas Cat.

     
     
8. on December 15, 2012 at 4:15 pm Suhail

   Looking into google directly is cheating.

   I looked into cats of my native country (Pakistan) and then tried to confirm with google. I think I am wrong on the cat, but that was not cheating.

   :-D

   
   
9. on December 15, 2012 at 6:14 pm kittenz

   It’s a Pampas Cat kitten. They are actually a sort of superspecies (thought to be at least 3 closely related species). This one’s coat is the ocelot morph. They also occur in several different spotted patterns, both reddish and grayish coats, and melanistic ones are not uncommon. The last time I went to the Cincinnati Zoo, they had a pair of black ones.

   
   
10. on December 16, 2012 at 11:25 pm Ogre Magi

    It is adorable is what it is

    
    
11. on January 30, 2014 at 1:25 am Chels

    Geoffroy’s Cat in Argentina :)

    
    

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