BABY WILDCATS HAVE NEW KITTY CAT MOM

Domestic tabby in SC adopts abandoned bobcats
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- In just a few months, three baby bobcats found in South Carolina could be a danger to a gray tabby named Zoe. But these days, the fuzzy felines are just members of the family for the nursing mother. The bobcats, orphaned after the abandoned house they were living under in Newberry County was demolished, are being nursed by Zoe at Carolina Wildlife Care near the Saluda River a few miles northwest of downtown Columbia.

The nursing is expected to last about four weeks and is intended to give the bobcats a feline on which to imprint, said Joanna Weitzel, executive director of the wildlife rescue group. "It's important they get that nurturing and care from a species similar to their own."

After five weeks, though, their razor-sharp teeth and claws could hurt Zoe and Zoe's kittens - an orange tabby and a calico that now dwarf the three bobcats in their kennel. The bobcats


are expected to grow over the coming months to the size of large dogs - about 22 inches tall and up to 70 pounds - while their adoptive siblings will likely max out around 10 pounds.

DISGRACEFUL,BARBARIC ANIMAL CRUELTY NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE

They don't have to chase these intelligent creatures. It is their instinct to come to humans trusting. Only to be murdered. Shame on you Denmark. Have you not evolved? Everyone joins in to murder the Dolphin calderon. DENMARK..you join the muslims with their shameful EID holiday.SHAME!

Reminder..these cute lil thangs are MEAN!!

GOD BLESS THE RESCUERS

CUTE ZOO BABIES

In the early morning hours of April 1, Red River hog mom Mvula gave birth to her second litter of adorable little Red River hoglets at the Calgary Zoo! The three babies and mom are now ready to come out to play after spending time bonding in their off display nursery over the past two weeks. ZooBorns covered Mvula's first batch of little piglets in April of last year.

MORE NEW BABIES:

Just a few of the hundreds that CrossingPaths have found new homes.Lucky babies

BABY FOX SOAPY HEADS

PLAINFIELD-- Problem: three curious red fox pups with their heads stuck in a storm drain grate, their mother screaming for them from their nearby den.

Solution: dishwashing detergent.

A Starkweather Road resident discovered the stranded pups Friday about 6 p.m. and called police. Animal Control Officer Karen Stone responded and called local firefighters for help.

The firefighters were able to pry the grate up a bit, but they had no tool to cut the thick metal, Stone said Monday. So she tried oiling their heads with Vaseline to push them back through. That didn't work. Neither did corn oil.

Finally, Stone said, she soaped the pups' heads with Dawn dishwashing detergent, and through a laborious process — the pups straining up the wrong way, biting at her gloved hands, the mother continuing to wail — she was able to push their ears down and through the grate. The third pup, which had a larger head than the other two, was the most difficult, Stone said.

Stone placed the pups in a dog crate in her van, drove them up near the den and released them. They scampered away toward home.

"Except for being a little soapy, I think they were OK," she said.A boy riding his bicycle had seen two of the pups stuck in the grate on Thursday. The third one popped up Friday. Just how they got snagged no one knows, but a dead mouse was lying near the grate on Friday and the pups may have been after that, Stone said. Or the mother may have placed the mouse there to try and coax her babies out.

Nothing can be done to prevent the pups from repeating their predicament, but Stone said she drives by now and then to check the grate. "Hopefully, they learned their lesson," she said.

The red fox mother is familiar to residents of the remote area. In years past, the fox family has entered the 6-inch diameter pipe that opens in the road drain and a culvert in a nearby field, Stone said.

He loves them.But just a matter of time before they kill him.

He loves his bears. They love him as much as they can being that they are wild animals. Now his state has convicted him of doing what he loves to do.
After nearly a year of legal wrangling, Charlie Vandergaw, who for 20 years fed and coexisted with the bruins at his Mat-Su cabin, has pleaded guilty to eight counts of intentionally feeding game.Charlie Vandergaw has been coexisting with bears this way for the last 20 years, and he wants to be left alone. That is not likely to happen now that the state is using a beefed-up law to prosecute Vandergaw for feeding bears.
Long unhappy with Charlie Vandergaw's intimate relationship with wild Alaska bears, state authorities are moving to put his Bear Haven out of business. Vandergaw has already been cited for feeding bears, but the charges levied against him next could go much farther.

Charlie Vandergaw - Alaska 'Bear Man Mat-Su 'bear man' pleads guilty to charges of feeding game

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