Jill Hicks of Chattanooga, Tennessee, saw a kitten running across a road and captured it for its own safety, as one does. When she showed the rescued kitten off to a neighbor, she was informed that she had actually picked up a bobcat kitten! Hicks then took the bobkitten to For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue. The organization posted the story and a picture of the bobkitten, now named Arwen, and some of the responses were rather strange.
On September 26, For Fox Sake mentioned that they had received a lot of requests about people wanting to adopt Arwen. "There is a 0 percent chance that Arwen, or any other bobkitten, will grow up to be a suitable house pet,” they wrote. “Even when raised by humans, bobcats are unpredictable, territorial wild animals with a powerful prey drive and no desire to please human beings.”
In other words: Sorry, but you won’t be able to adopt a bobkitten. And if for some reason Arwen won’t be able to be re-released into the wild, the rescue said she would go to a zoo or a nature center.
For future reference, "Wildlife Rescue" is very different from "Animal Shelter." You can read that story at Mental Floss. You can keep up with Arwen, who is battling anemia, in daily updates at Facebook.
(Image credit: For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue)