Meet Messi, The 1st Domesticated Puma. He's Gotten 58 Million Views And Isn't Slowing Down Soon

[Judi Lynn]

January 18th, 2018
By Arianna Etemadieh
Writer at Animal Channel

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Yes, a Russian family owns a puma.

How did Messi end up living with his Russian family? Well, Messi had nowhere else to go.

Messi is 30% smaller than a typical adult puma male. As a result, he can’t live in the wild because he would be an easy target for other wild pumas.

And because of his poor health and injuries Messi suffered as a cub, he couldn’t be accepted into a zoo enclosure either.

With his inability to survive in the wild or in a zoo, Messi had only one option left – being put down. Or so he thought.

A generous Russian family decided to take Messi in as their own, and it was a match made in heaven. Messi has completely adapted to his new family and to domesticated life.



More:
https://animalchannel.co/puma-domesticated-messi/


Video:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/this-adorable-pet-puma-named-messi-will-melt-your-heart/vp-BBIgdAy

[Hoyt]

1. Beautiful. Domesticated or not, I sure would not try to give him a bath.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. He's not domesticated (pumas never are), but he's quite tame.

I hope he always stays that tame. He's beautiful.

[volstork]

2. I can't think it's a good idea

to put a leash on a puma.

[msongs]

4. guy not too good at reading cat body language nt

[Binkie The Clown]

5. My grandfather had a life-long dream to become a lion whisperer. He finally achieved that dream,..

just moments before he died.

(Credit where credit is due: British one-liner comedian Milton Jones)

[tblue37]

6. K&R and thanks! nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. He's not domesticated; he's tame.

Big difference. A domesticated animal is one who has been bred over many generations for tameness and lack of aggression toward people. Their docile behavior is genetic. A tame animal is an individual animal who has become so acclimated to people that it is friendly and not aggressive - but usually just toward the people who tamed it. They are still wild animals and can revert to wild behavior. Messi is beautiful and his people obviously love him, and chances are that they'll never have any problems with him. But he's not a domesticated animal.

[get the red out]

8. Beautiful animal!

I would hate to have to trim his nails though!