This handsome cat is an ocelot. He was taken from the wild when stil too young to care for itself and his whiskers were cut off. I was helping him rehabilitate which meant making him get used to being a wild, solitary animal, not in the continuous presence of people, and learning skills like foraging, jumping. In order to achieve that he was on a leash a few hours p/day so a person - me at the time - could work with him and still be safe (very sharp claws & teeth) when out of his leash's reach.