It isn't for fending off predators...
1) when I was a kid, my friend's cat used to spay his hockey bag on a regular basis... we figure the cat thought the smell was that of another cat trying to claim its territory (i.e. my friend's house). His cat was just asserting his place.
2) When I was at the zoo I watched a full grown Siberian tiger chace a squirell up a tree. Once the squrriel was treed, the cat turned around and let loose with a spray of stuff (seeing that the cat was very big it was very noticeable). It wasn't pee and was clearly coming from the area of its anus...
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