This 'Mega Monster Cat' May Become The Biggest Cat In The World

Maine Coon is a breed of domestic cat. Its actual origin is unknown but they look quite wild and they�re usually pretty big. The biggest specimens weigh up to 11.3kg. But Rupert here is not just pretty big. He�s huge. He�s a �mega monster cat�, according to experts. Heck, this thing can probably kill you if he decided to.

Rupert is now 9kg, which is less than his biggest cronies. But he�s only two years old. By three he will be much bigger, say the vets, growing to the point in which he would be at least 14kg.

For comparison, male bobcats can get up to 14kg too. The Canada lynx goes up to 10.8kg, while the Iberian can reach 12.7. Only a male of the Eurasian lynx would be bigger than Rupert, at 18-27kg.

Still, Rupert will be 14kg of muscle, teeth, and claws. A domestic cat who looks pretty much like a real lynx. I�m not sure if I would feel safe around one.

A Giant Elephant Charged A Hippo And Her Baby. What This Mother Did Is Just Incredible.

A hippo and her round, innocent calf got a little too close to a bull elephant that was grazing nearby. The scuffle that took place between the two enormous animals was jaw-dropping.

This fully grown hippopotamus and her offspring got a little TOO close to elephants grazing nearby.

An elephant bull charged the momma hippo and her young.

The mother bravely defended her baby. The bull flipped her with his trunk.

Luckily, although the fight looks bad, the hippo walked away with merely a scratch.

Every mother in the animal kingdom knows what is most important: their young.

Fully grown hippos can weigh over 1.5 tons, but the elephant tossed her with ease.

The baby hippo and her mom were quickly reunited and finished grazing off in the distance by themselves.

It just goes to show that even animals that big would do backflips for their young (even if they didn�t mean to).

Is this Britain's strangest pet owner? Meet the woman with 40 CATS

WE'RE a nation of animal lovers but none of us has quite as many as retired secretary Marlene who shares her house with her 40 cats.The cat enthusiast is surrounded day and night by the 40 felines who follow her around her home.

They are groomed and bathed every day, a procedure which can see Marlene up until the early hours of the morning as she prepares them for shows.

The unusal pet owner spends around �200 a week on the felines' food and although she received funds following her mother's death to feed the cats, she admis the money is running out.

Marlene's mother died nine years ago leaving her 14 pedigree Persians to add to her own 26 cats.

She said: "The cats never upset me, I like people but sometimes they can be aggravating. I have closed myself down to the only pleasure which is being with the animals I'm surrounded by."

Her best friend Coleen admitted that she had named Marlene 'her eccentric friend.'

Coleen added: "Her life is her cats. I couldn't imagine Marlene without her cats. I couldn't cope with 40 but she does."

Marlene's story is one of many exposed by recent Channel 5 programme Pet Horders.

Another pet horder came in the form of Deb and her family who share their Yorkshire home with a brood of chickens.

Her passion for poultry started when she passed a farm snd was overwhelmed by the shrieking of chickens being kept in terrible conditions.

She crammed 60 birds into her car and headed home.

Since then, Deb has sold the business that she used to run and now nurses and cares for them all on a full-time basis. Deb plans to rescue and care for more abused animals, no matter what species.

Hilarious moment cow releases more than hoped

AS HIGHLY-efficient methane machines, cows and bulls have often been blamed for the increases in greenhouse gases.

They are known to produce up to 500 litres of methane every day. But this bovine seemed to go one further by appearing to light up an entire field in the French countryside.

However, the flames which seem to be bursting out of the animal�s behind are an optical illusion...the blaze is at a farm some distance behind it.

The extraordinary image was captured by amateur photographer Bertrand Kulik as he passed through a field in Issy l�Eveque, Burgundy.

A 13 Year Old Girl Found An Abandoned Dove Egg. And The Next 31 Days Were Simply Beautiful.

User HideeDeekee on Reddit was looking through an old phone when she found a series of 31 images taken when she was 13 years old. These images showcased the day by day progression of her raising a Ring-Necked Dove.

From the time she found the abandoned egg all the way up to his day of freedom, the photos say it all.

Day 1 � Hatching right in her hand

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6 � Starting to open his eyes

Day 7

Day 8 � He�s already 3 times bigger than the egg he hatched from

Day 9

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Day 12 � His eyes are fully opened!

Day 13

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Day 15

Day 16 � He can perch now!

Day 17

Day 18 � Taking him out one more time before he can fly away

Day 19

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Day 24

Day 25 � You can see the ring forming on his neck

Day 26

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Day 30

Day 31 � Fully feathered and ready to fl on his own!

She named him Deekee. When asked what ever happened to Deekee, her response was:

The wild one was allowed to come and go as she pleased, like a house cat. One day, she didn�t come back. Either her lack of fear due to us raising her got her captured by a person thinking she�d be a good pet, or eaten by a predator.. however, I have hopes that she simply found a mate and reverted to her wild instincts. Allowing her to roam as she wanted for at least a year allowed her to regain her natural fears and behaviors back.

Let�s hope Deekee lived a full, happy life. One thing is for sure � he wouldn�t have had a chance without this girl�s kindness.

I�ve Never Seen Anything So Heartbreaking In My Life. But It�s Completely Beautiful At The Same Time.

If you think dogs don�t have emotions, you�re about to be proven dead wrong. Two three month-old puppies were spotted in the middle of the street in southwest China�s Sichuan Province, refusing to move. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the grey puppy was deceased, presumably hit by a car, and her brother wouldn�t leave her.

The puppy�s sister was hit in the middle of the street. She was killed, but he refused to leave her side.

For days, he stayed by her side and barked if anyone got too close to her body.

Even when a hole was dug for her body, her brother jumped in and refused to leave.

Eventually, the local animal shelter collected this heartbroken puppy, buried his sister and began caring for him.

20 Dream-Like Photo Manipulations by Caras Ionut

Some photography purists resent photo manipulation, but others enjoy how it has opened up photography to new people and new ideas. Caras Ionut is a Romanian photographer and digital artist who makes a great case for digital art and photography. He has created an extensive body of images that are beautiful, enchanting � and impossible.

Ionut says that his imagination and his work are captivated by dreams and by the autumn and winter seasons. Although positive dreams are a big theme in his work, he says he also likes �to visit the darker side of what people may see of dreams, not necessarily what one would see as negative, but possibly a dream that one could not quite understand or may feel alone.�

He does a pretty good job of creating a dream-like mood in his works. The combination of soft and hazy colors with often impossible subjects makes for beautiful compositions.

One interesting note is that, besides just offering prints of his beautiful works on his website, Ionut also offers numerous Photoshop tutorials and classes. If you like his work or if you�d like some help with trying to create images of your own dreams, we suggest checking him out!