Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-10502460-20180502030220/@comment-9041013-20180502190418

So many questions, so little answers. This doggo is bumboozeled, much confuse, such misunderstand.

Firstly, why the fuck would a person hold onto a bloody Lynx it bothers to feed? It is like holding a mini-Tiger, do you really want one as a random hunter in the middle of so called nowhere? Probably dead, on your wall. It's just a really weird premise to have the whole conflict be between a captured Lynx and a kid, at a hunters house.

European Lynxes are the size of a German Shepherd, and Canadian ones seem to be of similar sizes, but if you're talking about the American species, I'm sorry, but there, these are the giant ones. Also, back to it just being a "crazy" wild cat, why would it try a Yorkshire if it is regularly fed? this dog is about the size of the Lynxs daily meal. Being a solitary, mostly silent animal. The Lynx would probably just try to avoid the annoying dog or simply quickly kill it (rather than turning it into tomato souce) along with obviously avoiding the child.

It has zero reason to behave like a hungry predator throughout the story given the info you present to us.

Also, how do you place a German Shepherd's worth of feline on a table? This is just way too unfitting. I just don't see how this Lynx issue translates itself into real life. I mean, I would buy into a Hyena being hungry and doing all of that but a Lynx? anticlimatic, sounds ridiculous and stupid (in story I mean) at the same time. I do mention Hyena because one theory about the Beast of Gevaudan was a trained Hyena that belonged to the hunter who ended shooting it. So this could be the case in your story too, but instead of a direct plot for whatever, it could've been an unfortunate event unfolding. You could portray the kid as misunderstanding that the Hyena is not a cat, because, lets be honest, Hyenas look like a cross breed between a dog, a cat and a giant rat and a pair of shark jaws.

All in all, I feel this needs lots of work in regards to the antagonist.

The rest of this is pretty much dandy