What is this poor thing?

[gingervere]

Found this on etsy

It's as if it was frozen in a moment of absolute terror. D:

Does anyone know what species it is? I agree with the seller that it doesn't look like a domestic cat...

Comments

[nightmer]

Wow. I'd guess very squished young bobcat.

[sharpecostumes]

Going along with Night. I wanna say that's a bobcat kitten:

[curiousmagpie]

It's an Asian leopard cat. I've seen them listed on ebay all the time. I truly don't believe this one is vintage at all- just bad taxidermy from Asia.

[curiousmagpie]

Also, I should add that it might not be an actual "leopard cat" but a domestic hybrid of some sort. But the mount screams "I was killed inhumanely and stuffed horribly in Indonesia or China".