“Don’t pick up wildlife,” warned officials after a Colorado Springs woman, on Wednesday, just put a 20-pound (9-kilogram) bobcat inside her car, inches away from the safety seat where her 3-year-old son was.
Bill Vogrin, the spokesman for the Colorado Parks and Wildlife, states that the woman saw the injured adult male bobcat while driving, and wrapped it in a blanket and put it in the back of her SUV.
Agency officials told her to get her boy and herself out of the vehicle when she called to ask what to do.
Vogrin says District Wildlife Manager Sarah Watson responded to the call, opened a door and slammed it shut when she spotted the 20-pound (9-kilogram) cat.
Watson used a trapping device to remove the animal, which was hissing and resisting despite severe internal injuries and paralyzed rear legs. The mortally injured cat was euthanized.
Hopefully the bobcat is in bobcat heaven now, but this is still sad news.
(Image Credit: Colorado Parks and Wildlife via AP)
The woman was just trying to do a kind deed - maybe she's just a ramp shy of a cloverleaf. At least the poor bobcat didn't die a long, lingering death.
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