So the cougar rescued the bobcat. 
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.
You are not going to hold a Bobcat or Lynx by the tail... Fact... lol :)
I’m hoping the little guy picked up enough smarts to survive and just took his place in the German forest.
That’s what I’m hoping.
Plus he had all of his vaccinations, unlike the ones raised in the woods, so hopefully his is out there living large with the girls..
I suspect it is; something we didn’t know at the time we adopted him.
My older son and his wife had adopted a snowshoe kitten. As it got older, she and their other cat weren’t getting along so well. I’m sure that wasn’t a problem for the snowshoe.
It’s even more important that they respect the owners.
That’s real classy.
Or A Manx Cat.........
It’s been around for ages.................
Look up “Benjie the Bobcat” on youtube. Tragic story of a family who adopts a bobcat kitten & it grows up to be a loving pet. They make the mistake of notifying wildlife management who come and confiscate the animal which is already too domesticated to survive in the wild.
They release it in the wild anyway and it is later found dead. Government knows best.
Still a sick joke.
So the cougar rescued the bobcat.
I wouldn’t mind being rescued by her...................
I’ve never seen it, but now I want to!..............Leslie Neilsen is great!...............
Agreed. Maybe the guy was a girl and she found a mate and had kittens.
Scariest words ever - We are from the government, and are here to help.
And you would be surprised, while there is always the chance they can turn wild on you at any moment, at the the same time they follow your lead as aggressive or not and return the like kind respect.
I have heard they are kind of retroactively wild?
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