>>96064
Heh.
Many years back a relative of mine who lives in an isolated part of the Appalachians found a stray? feral? cat in his garage. He was not much of an animal lover, but he wasn't hostile either, so he left the cat alone, a skinny little tabby.
A couple of weeks later he was working in his garden and saw this scrawny little cat pounce on and kill a copperhead. The snake was over three feet long, and venomous. Copperheads, unlike most venomous snakes found in North America, can be very territorial and very aggressive, and bite thousands of Americans every year. And this little cat just killed a big adult and started eating it, right there in the garden.
He started feeding the cat. He is neutral on most animals, but, like a lot of rural people in that part of the country, he really hates copperheads, because they bite people and pets and livestock, and they don't even give the courtesy of a warning rattle first. The skinny little cat impressed him.
A few months later, the scrawny little cat gave birth to kittens. Everyone, he said, wanted a kitten, because he'd told everyone about the cat that killed and ate a copperhead.
