Two bobcat kittens turned over to San Antonio animal control likely won’t return to their mother in the wild, according to the wildlife rescue group now caring for them.
Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation, Inc., says the window of opportunity to reunite them has most likely passed because the people who found the kittens weren’t honest about where they came from.
The family originally told San Antonio’s Animal Care Services they found the kittens in an alley and brought them home. They thought they were Bengal kittens, and realized they weren’t when the cats bit them and tore up the bottles they tried to use to feed them. However, the family changed their story, according to KSAT. A woman told them her brother found them in the attic in a shack in his property in McCoy, and, still thinking they were Bengal kittens, offered them to her.
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A few days later, they turned them over to officials.
“If the people who took these bobcat kittens would have had the moral courage to be honest about where they came from, WRR would have a better chance of reuniting them with their mother,” Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation wrote in a Facebook post. It alleges the people who found the kittens “were going to be kept and bred, and have their babies sold.”
Now, it says the bobcats will be in its care for more than a year, with the hope they can be released. It says people who want to donate to help the cause can do so on the group’s website.
