Tennessee-based breeders used a domestic shorthair cat with a naturally-occurring genetic mutation to create the Lykoi (pictured) which has a ‘strong prey drive’.
C’mon, now. You can’t really call it a wereWOLF if it is in fact a wereCAT. Even though they say it behaves more like a canine than a typical cat. This isn’t impossible. I once knew a man who had a pet bobcat. He’d rescued it as a cub and it was very tame. He told me the pet, named “Leroy,” behaved much more like one of his dogs than one of his other cats (he owned several of both), lacking the aloofness often found in felines and possessing the territorialism and loyalty so frequently attributed to dogs. It always met him at the door when he came home, he told me, and guarded the house when he was away. But stressing that this new breed of cats, the Lykoi, or “wolf-cat,” possesses a “strong prey drive” to differentiate it from other cats? Please. ALL cats have strong prey drives. Just ask any mouse.
But okay, let’s say that these cats act like dogs and look, kinda, if you squint, like werewolves. Or, more correctly, they look like those actors, faces partially covered with yak hair, from old monster movies. What I wanna know is, how much does one COST?