Answer:
What has four paws nine lives And are lazy
It is a cat but not a kitty, You'll never catch on in a city. Its fangs are huge and so its claws, A death machine with paws and jaws. In its own way a royal fellow, Striped with black and clothed in yellow
Stealthy as a shadow in the dead of night, cunning but affectionate if given a bite. Never owned but often loved. At my sport considered cruel, but that's because you never know me at all.
I am a animal that is cute but dangerous, what am I?
What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.