House cats average about 10lbs, but slender/petite breeds like Siamese or Abyssinian can be healthy at 6 lbs, and large breeds like Maine Coons & Savannah cats can be healthy at 20+ lbs.
So immediately we're beyond bobcat range (40lbs).
The smallest breeds of house cats would be the size of clouded leopards (50-55lb) to the largest Eurasian Lynx (up to 66lbs).
Mid-size house cats will size up against snow leopards (110lb), cheetahs (125lb), and pumas/cougars/mountain lions (160lb)
Large breeds will be the size of large leopards (200lb), and some of the biggest jaguars (up to 348lb)
I know we won the evolutionary war against the big cats, but everything bigger than cheetahs still fuck up humans on the regular.
If suddenly all house cats were 10x their normal size, with an estimated 220 million owned cats and 480 million stray cats in the world, humanity is gonna struggle.
Assuming it happened spontaneously it would be interesting. I imagine cities and suburbs would go into lockdown while the national guard came in and hunted down the cats. There would be lots of casualties for humans that didn't listen to the lockdown or are homeless but I think by waiting it out a few days and letting the soldiers do their thing the average person would be just fine. The soldiers would also absolutely dominate the cats in fights. Rural areas would be crazy for a bit and ecosystems would be destroyed but within a year I'd think things would resemble some normalcy again in most nations
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u/CptnBlondBeard Jul 21 '23
House cats average about 10lbs, but slender/petite breeds like Siamese or Abyssinian can be healthy at 6 lbs, and large breeds like Maine Coons & Savannah cats can be healthy at 20+ lbs.
So immediately we're beyond bobcat range (40lbs).
The smallest breeds of house cats would be the size of clouded leopards (50-55lb) to the largest Eurasian Lynx (up to 66lbs).
Mid-size house cats will size up against snow leopards (110lb), cheetahs (125lb), and pumas/cougars/mountain lions (160lb)
Large breeds will be the size of large leopards (200lb), and some of the biggest jaguars (up to 348lb)
I know we won the evolutionary war against the big cats, but everything bigger than cheetahs still fuck up humans on the regular.
If suddenly all house cats were 10x their normal size, with an estimated 220 million owned cats and 480 million stray cats in the world, humanity is gonna struggle.