20 Pawdorable Big Cats You Shouldn't Boop (But Kinda Want To)

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Aug 1, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

Something that we have always known about ourselves is that one day… we will end up on the news. We know that it is going to happen, and we know what it is going to happen for. It is just a matter of time. One day, we will become famous for trying to pet something that we should not have petted. Specifically big cats. Big cats are basically house cats if you study them for long enough. They act the same.

Big cats are just as cute as house cats. Big cats like to play just like house cats. Big cats cats like boxes - exactly the same way that house cats do! And we have all seen those people… those incredibly lucky people who are able to just do that- just hang out with big cats. So, we know that it is possible. And although until now, we have managed to stop ourselves from ending up on the news… one day, it is going to happen.

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Truly, we don't know why mother nature has made these cats so… cat-like. If evolution didn't happen the way that it did, if all big cats still looked like saber-toothed cats, then we would not desperately want to pet all of them. Actually… we take that back. We totally would want to pet a saber-toothed cat.
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Like… look at this. Is this not one of the cutest things that you have ever seen in your lives? Because it's one of the cutest things that we have ever seen in ours. Look at it. It's playing. It's so cute. We want to pet it so bad.
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