Oh here's another picture. This is Sydney's sister, Aspen. She's a domesticated desert lynx. She moved out of the house with my 20-year-old daughter about a month ago, and Sydney doesn't have anything to harass any more. I really miss her, but she's in a VERY loving home with my daughter, who is also a crazy critter lover.
If she looks grumpy . . . it's because she is. Since we adopted her, we never really knew why we loved her. (But we did, and ferociously.
) We thought she might have been feral, but we discovered she has wild cat genes in her recent pedigree history. She's a lover on her own terms, but if you pet her for too long, she hisses and growls.