People asked for more pictures of the cannibal kitty, thought I'd deliver
# Follow up to [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/CATHELP/s/oHUdNiHJrl)
His name is Baby Jesus. Sorry to disappoint everyone who wanted him named Hannibal lol.
He is 7 years old, \~17lbs, has been perfectly fine away from other cats since 2025.
He's fed canned food with raw toppers— chicken hearts, gizzards, salmon belly skin, dried liver, & raw chicken necks to gnaw on to clean his teeth. (***Raw*** bones *are* safe for cats) He occasionally gets dry food if I'm not gonna be home to feed him and I just have to leave a big bowl out.
I take him outside only on a harness & extendable leash, usually after midnight so he can wander around in the grass while I sit on a bench. He's not terribly fast, I think he has something wrong with his legs (a deformity not an injury), he's never been able to outrun me on the like 3 occasions he's ever managed to get outside. He doesn't really even seem to try. His fastest speed seems to be speed walking and he has an odd gait.
Regardless, nowadays, he will snap out of whatever he's doing and run back to me if I call for him, so I'm not concerned.
He's started to get his voice back, he meows and trills at me when I talk to him! My parents thought he might've been mute with how quiet he was.
Answering questions from the original post:
1. He doesn't like string toys, he just looks at my hand. I think he knows they're fake. He likes the sort of toys with batteries that roll around on the floor randomly
2. He has no reaction to a mirror, he seems to understand there's not an actual cat in front of him. He'll sniff it, inspect it, then move on.
3. My parents also kept him with a very large (\~30lbs) & friendly maine coon mix which belongs to my dad since 2021. He didn't seem to understand any of the larger cat's attempts to communicate. Baby jesus would ignore the hissing/growling, and got his ass handed to him when he just sat there and didn't back off. He was never aggressive to my dad's cat, likely because of the size difference. They would mostly just avoid each other. It seemed like both were mutually scared of each other.
4. He's afraid of dogs larger than him, will puff up and try to hide. He swats when cornered. Small dogs seem to get him curious the way any other small animal would, so he's never been left alone with one. I think he'd try eating a chihuahua.
5. He IS missing about ⅓ of his tail from an old injury he had when my parents got him. The bone at the end healed weird giving him a little puff at the end of his tail.
6. He does play rough. But you can get him out of play mode pretty easy. Sometimes he bites my hand a little when I mess with him. If it's too hard he'll let go with a strong "hey-", he'll also chomp on my feet to get my attention when it's time to give him a can of food. He's very good at making himself impossible to ignore.
7. His face does just look like that. He loves eye contact and will start purring if you look at him.
8. No he doesn't freak out if I smell like another cat. He just sniffs/licks my hand if I've recently touched another animal.
9. I don't know anything about how he was raised. I got him as an adult, as did the last person.
Nobody asked, but he loves to eat bread. Like regular white bread. It's one if his favorite little treats, he begs whenever anyone has a sandwich.