This cake was made for the birthday of a young woman who was awarded the title of outstanding soldier in her army unit. She’s a member of Caracal which is a mixed unit of men and women. The caracal (also an English word, incidentally) is a medium-sized wild cat native to Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and India. It is a carnivore that typically preys upon small mammals, birds, and rodents. (Wikipedia)
The cake is a facsimile of the unit’s symbol. Before I knew what a caracal actually was, I assumed I was looking at an eagle or some other type of bird of prey. Aren’t those wings? Maybe they allude to the fact that the caracal can leap higher than three meters and catch birds in midair?
In any event, now that you know what a caracal is, are you considering getting one for your home? Firstly, that will be an initial outlay of between $1700.00 to $2800.00. Now stop a moment to consider how much it’s going to cost you to feed your new pet. And where are you going to find a vet willing to treat it? Here’s a website devoted to discouraging you from buying any kind of big cat. Bottom line, what with insurance, a cage, a new van large enough to transport it, renovations to your home etc. you can expect to be paying almost $25,000.00 your first year and your annual expenses will be around $7500.00!
But here’s the most interesting fact. “Nature has hard wired exotic cats in such a way that once they are mature they no longer feel any love for their mother and if they run into her in the wild will kill her for the territory. Even if you raised them with all of the love and nurturing that their natural mother would provide (and she would die to protect them) they will not feel love, nor respect for you as the parent when they are full grown. Thousands of years of instincts tell them that you are competition and that their survival depends on them being solitary.”
Fascinating, right? Do you think the same thing holds true for street cats or even house cats? Gives you a whole new perspective on that squinty-eyed stare of theirs, doesn’t it?
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