r/CatTaps • u/Vincenz05 • Oct 03 '24

Kitten of Sicilian wildcat taps water

Hello everyone. Thanks for your attention❤️, I wanted the help of you cat lovers from all over the world for my research. Your help would be fundamental for me; I am collecting data to try to find a relationship between the footprints left by cats and their size; this method would help me to estimate the size of some wild cats of which l only have the dimensions of the footprint. If you want to participate please write in the comments: 1)width of your cat's footprint, 2)length of your cat's footprint, 3)length of your cat's tail, 4)height of your cat at the shoulder, 5)length of the cat from the tip of the nose to the beginning of the tail.

Thank you very much for reading the message and thank you to those who collaborate with some data, I leave you a video of Sicilian wild kitten playing with water taken by my camera trap. I would like to point out that there is no profit motive and I am only collecting data because this species is very rare in my area and there is very little information about it.

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u/Dense-Address780 Oct 03 '24

Good for you! help those wild kitties!

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u/Vincenz05 Oct 03 '24

Thanks, if you want you can help me by writing in the comments width and length of your cat's footprint, length of the tail, height at the shoulder and length from the tip of the nose to the beginning of the tail; your help would be precious to me. As I wrote in the post this data would be very useful to calculate the size of these wild cats starting from their footprints, unfortunately very little is known about Sicilian wild cats and even online there are very few articles.

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u/Dense-Address780 Oct 03 '24

I'm thinking about it! if I can get my cats to sit still long enough definitely send them to you! do you want to know gender of the cats?

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u/Vincenz05 Oct 03 '24

Yes, thank you very much for your help.

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u/Vincenz05 Oct 04 '24

Hi, if it's easier for you to record the data I've created a table that you can download and use, if you want to use it you can find it in the comments of this post of mine, thanks again for the help.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatGenetics/s/Ye0Yp1wc0B