maybe because big cats are so similar looking to pets or because they look pretty/cool compared to buffalo. it may also be because you're used to seeing prey animals dead rather than seeing predators dead
Whenever I see an animal like a buffalo, getting eaten by other animals like big cats or wild dogs, it doesn't disgust me.
But when I see a big cat, a lion for example, that has got hit by a car, or a pile of tiger skins, or a picture of a man with a gun standing over a lion he's just killed, it DOES digest me. Why is that?