domestic cat
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any domesticated member of the genus Felis
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A predator small enough to be prey for others, the domestic cat uses its formidable teeth and claws as weapons against animals that might confuse a cat with easier prey.
The cat is the second domestic cat to be diagnosed with the virus.
Image of a black cat though to be the panther that later turned out to be a domestic cat.
It is a solitary and nocturnal animal about the size of a domestic cat.
Mr Williams said he also had known leopard feces and hair collected from a private zoo tested by one of the same labs, but that these samples came back with the same results of dog feces and domestic cat hair.
Other groups of animals were restricted in size and niches; mammals, for example, rarely exceeded the size of a domestic cat, and were generally rodent-sized carnivores of small prey.