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I was able to get a picture of this small exotic feline known as the Geoffrey's cat. It has always been inside sleeping in the past, I fell in love with this little feline. It was trying to wake up, and had an itch. :)

Here is some info on this little feline.

Physical appearance: One of the small cats about which little is known, this cat has a uniformly patterned coat of small black spots of nearly equal size and spacing. The ground color tends to be more of an ochre color in the northern part of their range to a gray in the southern part. Black (melanistic) individuals are common. Males weigh an average of 10 pounds, and females average 8. Presence on the planet: Versatile in its utilisation of habitats, Geoffroy�s cat is at home in scrub woodlands, open bush, rocky terrain and riverine forest. Recorded at Cochabamba in the Bolivian Andes at 3500 metres, its geographical range covers practically all of the continent of South America south of the Gran Chaco in Uruguay and Paraguay, the Brazilian Rio Grande do Sul and the mountains of southern Bolivia, northern Chile and Jujuy in northwest Argentina. It is not found further south than the Straits of Magellan. Habitat: They occupy a wide variety of habitats, from the pampas grasslands and arid Chaco shrub and woodlands, up to alpine saline deserts. It is absent from tropical rain forests, broad-leaved forests, and open areas. It occupies the same areas as the Pampas Cat, but the Geoffroy�s sticks to dense ground cover which separates the two ecologically. Diet: Geoffroy�s cats hunt small birds, lizards, insects and rodents. They will eat eggs and in captivity have been observed to chew green hay stems. Cats eat vegetation to aid digestion and to assist vomiting and the elimination of fur balls. Geoffrey's CatReproduction & Offspring: After mating it appears that the male takes little part in the raising of the young. The litter size is usually small, between 1- 4 (typically two) kittens and they are born after a gestation period of approximately 72 - 78 days. The kittens weigh between 65 - 90g at birth and have been noted as developing quickly. Kittens can almost stand at about four days and are often independent of their mother at about eight months.

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