'I guess all cats like to sit in your pants': Lonesome bobcat kitten gets rescued, and her ameowzing caretaker captures the hilarious process of rehabilitating her before she gets released into the wild

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Nov 24, 2025 10:00 AM EST

We don't know how many times we have said this before, but one of our dreams, as the cat people that we are, is to get to experience other cats - big cats. Big cats are just like house cats, everyone knows that. And yet, unfortunately, we can't actually treat them like house cats. We can try, but that will probably end up with us getting on the news for all the wrong reasons. And we can be jealous of all those people online who have dedicated their whole lives to living this dream, like the man who became part of a lion pride or the other guy who raised a cheetah cub who still recognizes him as a friend years and years later.

But all of those things are either unrealistic for us or dangerous. What we possibly could do is what the person in this story did. Rehabilitating a rescued bobcat, one who needed a temporary home, a place to be safe and happy until he's capable of being released back into the wild. Now, that is something that we would love to do.

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"Baby m*rder kitten."

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Honestly, we just have to start by saying this: we are so beyond jealous. This is like- our dream. Getting to hang out with a bobcat, getting to pet it, to love it - it is everything that we have ever wanted, and this looks even more fun that we could have ever imagined it being.
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"You have heard of cat in the hat. But what about Bob cat in the pants"

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"Welp this is a new one for me. I guess all cats like to sit in your pants."

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"M*rder kitten can has washer."

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"Come from work to find a Bob cat in my washer. The little sh** figured out the dog door. Now no place is safe for me."

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Of course bobcat kittens are just like little cats. Of course they are. We are not surprised. And yet… knowing that all cats are just cats, no matter their size is not quite the same as seeing it in pictures of a bobcat sitting in underwear and climbing into the washing machine. We- are in love.
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"Amazing how just a couple of weeks makes a difference in size. Trying to get it to stand next to a banana now that going to be the fun part."

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"The Christmas floof... Am I cute."

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"Mmmmmm finger."

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"God it i can believe how big he's gotten."

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"His favorite toy."

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"I am viscous. Your hand is mine."

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"Not aMeewwwooosed... Finally managed to get the floof with a banna"

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"Almost lost a hand on this. Of course had only 12" bannans"

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"At this point he was doen with the photoshoot. 1 min longest he has ever sat still."

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