Well my, my my...
Posted on 09/26/2019 11:01:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sept. 25 (UPI) -- A Tennessee woman who rescued a kitten she spotted running across a road brought the feline into her car and took it home before discovering the creature actually was a baby bobcat.
Jill Hicks of Chattanooga said she was driving recently when she spotted the kitten running across the busy road and decided to rescue it.
"So I pulled over and surprisingly it didn't run from me," Hicks said in a Facebook post. "I put it in the car with me and it climbed all over me like a kitten would do, got in floorboard under my feet, and after stopping a couple of times to get it nestled into my lap, I finally got home with it."
Hicks named the animal Arwen. She said it wasn't until a neighbor came over to look at the kitten that its identity was revealed.
"I was going to go home from dinner, give her a bath, put her in the bed with me and when we decided she was a bobcat, I was like I probably better not do all of that," Hicks told WDEF-TV.
Hicks took Arwen to the For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue, where rehabilitators confirmed the young animal was a bobcat.
Rehabilitator Juniper Russo said people can look for signs to determine whether a kitten actually is a young bobcat.
"Bobcat kittens always have spots in some form or another, whereas actual spotted markings are really rare in domestic cats and a bobcat kitten will sometimes, but not always, have black tufts on the ears, which are also possible in domestic cats, but pretty rare," Russo said.
Russo said Arwen will be cared for until the animal is old enough to be released back into the wild, likely around March.
Hicks said she has no regrets about her actions.
"Even though I thought she was a kitten, had I known she was a bobcat, in that small and in that high-trafficked area, I still would have done the same thing," she said.
[[”I was going to go home from dinner, give her a bath,]]
Give it some catnip before ya bath is- makes the bath go so much better
Well my, my my...
There was an incident years ago of a country music person who lived on the Cumberland plateau
He had exotic pets
His bobcat killed and ate his child....don’t recall if the child was an infant or toddler
A bobcat killed and ate my cat in 2009
Bobcats or lynx....Rufus something much like Caracol in Africa do what they do
They can decimate neighborhood outdoor pets under 50 pounds
In 1964 my father was hunting at our lease in Tensas parish Louisiana on the Mississippi around 35 miles south of Vicksburg on the West Bank
He climbed into his stand not knowing a bobcat was resting there.....in the gun metal dawn
The cat naturally attacked him and bite and clawed him till he could get to his Browning ought six and he dispatched the cat
He had to go to the county hospital in Newelton since closed .....to get treated and stitches
We gave the cat to the black overseer A.O. who ate it......
Cats are not really domesticated. They just find hanging with humans easier than working for a living.
A bobcat kitten could easily come to the same conclusion...
Hawww. Just shoot up here amongst us, one of us need some relief - Jerry Clower
Wasn’t this more a case of a mistaken kitten turns out to be a bobkitten?
Around 20 years ago a feral female house cat began hanging around my house. She was fairly easy to tame and I noticed she caught a lot of rats.
This was way out in the country. The cat pretty much made a home of the very large pump house. One day I was walking around carrying a .22 magnum when I saw a large black cat sneaking away from the pump house. I knew what he was up to and shot him.
I carried him a few hundred yards away and threw the carcass into a briar patch. He was far, far, bigger than I had thought. Probably weighed over 20 pounds. He must have had some wild cat in him.
My cat had five all black kittens a few months later. I knew who their daddy was. I tried several times to tame them and just couldn’t. They were wild and would not be tamed. I think the wildness is inborn.
“stupid woman”
That’s funny.
The woman on the link...
The hipster lesbo
Is not the woman who found the cat
That woman is rather fetching and soccer mom looking
This is wrong but I am laughing a bit....
:-)
LOL!
Or the non-PC movie Mr Magoo which is unofficially banned.
You first!
Outdoor life can be tough on a pet. Especially a domesticated cat. If the cat can’t defend itself from predators, it is an easy meal. There are other cats, cars,...
Snowflake idiot. One of the first ones on the menu when the lights go out.
I would love to sleep with him. :)
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