Bobcats mistaken for domestic kittens brought into Texas home
Three people in Texas were bitten when the kittens they thought they were handling turned out to be bobcats.
"Hey listen," wrote the city's Animal Care Services on Facebook. "Wildlife really should remain IN THE WILD and it's up to us to help make that happen! These bobcat kittens are now orphaned and under quarantine with our partners at Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation because someone thought they looked like house cats. Several people were bitten."
The caretakers thought the cats, found in Atascosa County, were Bengal kittens — a rare domestic breed — and brought them inside a nearby home.
Animal control was called and Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation took the cats in, where they remain quarantined.
San Antonio's Animal Care Services is working with Texas State Parks and Wildlife "to investigate the potential criminality of the animal’s capture and relocation."
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Adorable Kitty. I would have liked to handle them... with long leather gloves, LOL.
Awwww, there so damn cute. I want one.😼
Now there are some dumb ass people.
AWww
Ooops
Ouch
Damn
Why do you say that?
So Cute.. But NO Thanks.
IMO Wild animals aren't to be "played" with. Usually it seems when ya do sooner or later it comes back to "Bite" ya in the ass.
I kept saying that about the crocodile hunter guy, he thought it was so cool to "play" with deadly wild animals again and again ... unfortunately for him and his family , he found out the hard way that can be deadly.
I even hesitated watching and was ready to turn off your video link quickly in case the cuteness disappeared and the claws and canines came out.
lol
I'm curious, of those that have replied so far, how many of you have pets?
Do you guys laugh when far left, tree-hugging liberals get eaten by the wild animals they befriend? Just wondering...
Bobcats need to be in the wild. I used to see a family of them at night when I worked the graveyard shift. They were interested in us but we never got closer than maybe 10 yards from them, even when we would leave dog food for them.
Only if it's on Lake Placid 😐
All domesticated animals at one point were wild animals. I don't presume to know the history of that cat, however from my perspective the video shows a bobcat showing affection and scent marking someone he feels something for.
I agree, but it is doubtful at this stage that he/she could be reintroduced into the wild and hope to survive.
I have three cats, all rescues. They are like the Three Stooges come back to life.
I do belong to that group (I think).
note how both the dog and bobcat eyeball the ditka when it first come in the room.
LOL and I thought I lived in a zoo. Ya got me beat by a mile...lol
Neither of those videos are mine.
I think that there's a major marketing opportunity here. Think about it, those that are strictly cat people would have the chance to adopt a companion that might actually be capable of defending their "people".😀
Bobcats, like Servals and Bengals, are not house pets. They should be in the wild where they belong.
I love cats and they seem to like me, but I would never want any of these larger cats as a pet.