About 25 years ago a fellow moved into our valley that had a bunch of BIG cats that were used in movies & TV commercials. (He's no longer here.) He had Lions, Bengal Tigers, Black Panthers, & a female Mountain Lion named "Shilow". I was hired to build & assemble the cages for those cats. It was the middle of a hot summer when he brought the cats in; I noticed that the cats' water dishes were empty so I got the garden hose & started filling them up. Shilow didn't want to drink out of her water dish, she wanted to drink out of the end of the hose, so I let her, I didn't care. Later that day, after he had gotten the cats in their cages, he decided that he wanted some small, empty wooden cable spools put in each cage. When I went to put the spool in Shilow's cage she remembered me from earlier & ran over to me, stood up on her hind feet, placed her huge front paws on my shoulders & began licking my face. Her tongue felt like coarse, wet sandpaper against my face. I started stroking her cheeks, scratching her ears and the top of her head, and talking softly to her just as if she was a giant house cat. She immediately started PURRING; this was the loudest purring I've ever heard. The guy that owned the cats saw us & started screaming & yelling, stating that this was the same cat that had bitten his wife's arm off. Mind you, NONE of these cats had been de-fanged or de-clawed.
A couple of weeks later, my 2nd wife & I got to bottle-feed a half dozen 2 week old baby Bengal Tigers. At 2 weeks they're the size of a large house cat, but they're still kittens.
Just for size reference, Shilow was about the same size as the cat in the above photograph.
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