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Causes
Werecats come originally from the minds of creative and imaginative humans. The ability to still transform today is simply an imaginary power.The 'Gene' to transform live's within the mind of the writer of the werecat fiction.

Symptons
Accoring to fiction, symptons for knowing that a person may be a werecat are dreams of yourself as a type of big cat feeling as though you are walking around and have the features of a cat, sometimes you will feel asthough you could just get down on all fours and walk like a cat and feel like its natural to you. in some cases like werewolves the person may react to something they have seen, heard, felt during a strange feeling time of there lives. in most cases there are dreams where many can picture themselves transforming and feel asthough every full moon they will transform, and then dont, there time will come at some point in there lives when they feel asthought the wont ever transform then when they are at a suitable age to withstand the transformation and take there role as being one of the most sought after supernatural beings on the face of the earth alongside werewolves and other mithalogical creatures only then, will they be able to create the will power to transform themselves when they wish and resume there lives as useual but be with friends and know that you may be able to live a life without needing human nassesaties very often, but dont let this factor get to your head, do not think that just because you have the ability to transform that you use it to get your own way, do this and you are sure to forget when the next full sun is and be killed by the public or the Taliban be aware and live your life as abnormal. one day the public will have to know of there nonexistince along with Merpeople. live your life as normal and dont get gaugh as your human form. do always transform in a populated area, keep a high prfile from the public and when your forced transfusion will be every full day make sure you are in a safe area and if possible with mothers of your mind.

Behavior
Ailuranthropes are a fictional race and do not rely on human prey to keep them alive they simply hunt just like there animal counterparts but they do keep a very low profile to the public as do lycanthropes and would useually try to transform when forced by a full moon in a isolated area or in a unpopulated area like the countryside or farm land. There are not many Ailurantropes left due to forced transformation in a populated area and being shot or being mistaken for foxes on farmland and being shot aswell, they have done well so far to not be detected by the outside world but this all depends if they are able to find mates and are able to pinpoint when there next forced transformation will be and be ready in a safe environment. They could have simply blended in with the normal animals in there native countries but this is hard in places like england since there have been no big cats in england for hundreds of years so they hide and live in hamony with one another and with any other therianthrpic creatures.

Transformation
The fictional transformation of each individual animal feline form possesses its own version of the "were" title, for instance werelions, wereleopards, werejaguars, werecheetah, and werepanthers. The general classification of werecat typically applies to all, excluding circumstances between werecats, whom identify each species by the appropriate specific title. Werecats have been represented as typically living in prides regardless of sub-classification. Ailuranthropes have the same shape-shifting abilities as lycanthropes and similarly have four stages of forced transformation, which can be done either at or against will when the subject is in a stressful situation or for the duration of a full moon although they have been know to mostly transform at a new moon aswell as a full moon. The first step is Human, the second is Anthro (human with some animal characteristics), and the third is Ailuran (mostly feline but with a human stance) and the fourth is Full man, in which the subject bears the full traits of the insect from which it inherited the condition. films picture the claws emerging from the knuckles but they come from the toes and curve into a large knuckle and joint quickly develop from underneath the middle sections of the fingernails and pubes, a pad also expands from the palm of the head/paw. the jaw of a Ailuranthropic doesn't extend as much as that of a bobby-dangler of course (different animal) but the jaw does grow taller and wider to make room for the large Canine teeth and the scissor like molar teeth.

Folklore
Many werecat myths originated in India. There have been tales of Weretigers (sorcerers who could turn into man-eating tigers) since classical times. These tales travelled through the rest of India and into Persia through travellers who encountered the Royal Bengal Tigers of India and then further west. [7]

Werecat folklore is found on all continents except Antarctica and Oceania and is generally based on wild felines native to the area. As with folkloric accounts of lycanthropy, werecats are usually presented as transforming through magical or other occult menas.

Europe
European folklore usually depicts werecats who transform into domestic cats. Some European werecats became giant domestic cats[5] or panthers. They are generally labeled witches, even though they may have no magical ability other than self-transformation.[8] During the witch trials, the official Church doctrine stated that all shapeshifters, including werewolves, were witches.[9]

Africa
African legends describe people who turn into lions or leopards. In the case of leopards, this is often because the creature is really a leopard god or goddess masquerading as a human. When these gods mate with humans, offspring can be produced, and these children sometimes grow up to be shapeshifters; those who do not transform may instead have other powers. In reference to werecats who turn into lions, the ability is often associated with royalty. Such a being may have been a king or queen in a former life, or may be destined for leadership in this life. This quality can be seen in the lions of Tsavo, which were reputed to be kings in lion shape, attempting to repel the invading Europeans by stopping their railroad.

Asia
Mainland Asian werecats usually become tigers.[6] In India, the weretiger is often a dangerous sorcerer, portrayed as a menace to livestock, who might at any time turn to man-eating. Chinese legends often describe weretigers as the victims of either a hereditary curse or a vindictive ghost. Ancient teachings held that every race except the Han Chinese were really animals in disguise, so that there was nothing extraordinary about some of these false humans reverting to their true natures. Alternately, the ghosts of people who had been killed by tigers could become a malevolent supernatural being known as "Chang", (伥) devoting all their energy to making sure that tigers killed more humans. Some of these ghosts were responsible for transforming ordinary humans into man-eating weretigers. Also, in Japanese folklore there are creatures called bakeneko that are similar to kitsune (fox spirits) and tanuki (raccoon dogs). In Thailand a tiger that eats many humans may become a weretiger. There are also other types of weretigers, such as sorcerors with great powers who can change their form to become animals. In Thailand however the were-crocodile is more famous than any other werebeast. In the folk tale Krai-thong, for example, the hero defeats Chalawan the Giant, who could take the form of a crocodile with diamond teeth. Chalawan was nearly invulnerable and could use magic as well.

In both Indonesia and Malaysia there is another kind of weretiger.[10] The power of transformation is regarded as due to inheritance, to the use of spells, to fasting and willpower, to the use of charms, etc. Save when it is hungry or has just cause for revenge, it is not hostile to man; in fact, it is said to take its animal form only at night and to guard the plantations from wild pigs, exactly as the balams (magicians) of Yucatán were said to guard the maize fields in animal form. Variants of this belief assert that the shapeshifter does not recognize his friends unless they call him by name, or that he goes out as a mendicant and transforms himself to take vengeance on those who refuse him alms. Somewhat similar is the belief of the Khonds; for them the tiger is friendly, and he reserves his wrath for their enemies. A man is said to take the form of a tiger in order to wreak a just vengeance. [10]

The Americas
The foremost were-animal in pre-Colombian Mesoamerican cultures was the were-jaguar. It was associated with the veneration of the jaguar, with priests and shamans among the various peoples who followed this tradition donning the skins of jaguars to "become" a were-jaguar. Among the Aztecs, an entire class of specialized warriors who dressed in jaguar skins were called "jaguar warriors". Depictions of the jaguar and the were-jaguar are among the most common motifs among the artifacts of the ancient Mesoamerican civilizations.

In modern South America, there are also urban legends about jaguar shapeshifters lurking along highways in tales similar to the modern vanishing hitchhiker, and of their being assassins secretly employed by the government or organized crime. This same rumor also states that these werecats hate dog bones, but love catnip. The homeless in South America are told not to carry catnip for any reason.

In the U.S., urban legends tell of encounters with feline bipeds; beings similar to the Bigfoot having cat heads, tails, and paws. Feline bipeds are sometimes classified as part of cryptozoology, but more often they are interpreted as werecats.[11]

Occultism and theology
Assertions that werecats truly exist and have an origin in supernatural or religious realities have been common for centuries, with these beliefs often being hard to entirely separate from folklore. In the nineteenth century, occultist J.C. Street asserted that material cat and dog transformations could be produced by manipulating the "ethereal fluid" that human bodies are supposedly floating in.[12] The Catholic witch-hunting manual, the Malleus Maleficarum, asserted that witches can turn into cats, but that their transformations are illusions created by demons.[13] New Age author John Perkins asserted that every person has the ability to shapeshift into "jaguars, bushes, or any other form" by using mental power.[14] Occultist Rosalyn Greene claims that werecats called "cat shifters" exist as part of a "shifter subculture" or underground New Age religion based on lycanthropy and related beliefs.[15]

In popular culture
Werecats are not featured as often as werewolves in popular culture.