The Cactus Cat appears to be one of the more sophisticated Fearsome Critters. Described as looking like a wild-cat sort of creature, with sharp spikes all across its body to defend itself from attack and of which it could also use to attack, as well as that it was often described with a long-armored and spiky tail as well.
The Cactus Cat, like its name suggests, loves cactus, specifically using its spikes to cut open a cactus and let the cactus juice ooze out, the Cactus Cat would then return to the cactus later on whereby the cactus water would have fermented and there it would drink it and then let out hair-raising screams through the night, while intoxicated. The Cactus Cat also opened up cactuses in an attempt to attract females using the enticing smell. Females would viciously fight over a male if multiple came to the same spot.
Un-like many of the previous Fearsome Critters, the Cactus Cat is much more social rather than solitary and will mate for life, their life-length described often being twenty to thirty years. In mating, the winning female drinks the cactus juice with the male, getting drunk and then mating and having a litter within a few weeks.
Cactus Cats were also said to sometimes be dangerous to humans and other animals that strayed into their territory, as they were sometimes described as highly territorial. They would severely maim or even kill anything that entered too far into its territory. Although this was described as rare and many other stories also said they were generally indifferent to others nearby, but may perhaps give warnings, by scratching or striking the skin of someone sleeping at night in the area, where they would later wake-up and discover the unexplained injury.
Cactus Cats would survive in the harsh heat of a desert by carving open cactuses and sleeping within them, while drinking its juice. The Cactus Cat is also said to hunt bugs and scorpions as its diet and is also said to be immune to scorpion poison.
It is often believed that the Cactus Cat came about from frontiersman and cowboys out in the desert, explaining strange shrieks in the night, that most likely actually came from other wildcats such as a Puma and also to explain things such as vanishings, unexplained injuries and more. The Cactus Cat itself is also likely mis-identification of an actual wildcat or other animals such as a Porcupine.
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