'Throwback to when I unknowingly raised a baby bobcat': Person finds an abandoned "kitten" at their friend's house, rescues her, raises her, but quickly realizes that she's getting a bit too big for a regular cat

Big cats and house cats are all just… cats. And that is especially true for kittens. That is what this story has taught us, really. When you look at a kitten, sometimes, it's a little hard to tell whether said kitten is going to grow up into a silly house cat or into a meowgestic wild cat. Because they're all kind of the same when they are younger - just as silly, just as clumsy, with the exact same meownnerisms. It's no surprise then that sometimes… people trying to do the right thing just get it wrong.

We've seen it countless times at this point - people accidentally rescuing Norwegian Forest cats, accidentally adopting Siberian cats, accidentally raising puma cubs, and, what seems to be the most common one of this uncommon bunch, people accidentally rescuing bobcat kittens. All of these people were trying to save the abandoned cats, thinking that they were just regular kitties that they could adopt and live with, happily ever after. And all of them got the surprise of their lives when they realized that they have something special in their homes. This story, in that sense, is no different. And no less purrfectly adorable.

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It's a little bit hard to say, based on looking at these pictures alone, what exactly this person has adopted. The clues can be interpreted in a whole bunch of ways. But… according to an interview this person gave to Newsweek, this woman, who thought the same thing as the rest of the commenters under her video - that this was a regular bobtail kitty - took the cat to the vet for a checkup, and it was the vet who told her that the kitty was a mix between a bobcat and a stray. The vet told her that if the kitty does not get aggressive, she has the green light to keep it.
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Things are never that simple, of course, and unfortunately, before she could get confirmation about whether this cat truly was a bobcat or not, he ran away. So… this woman no longer owns the cat. But she did continue and say that four months after running away, the kitty came back as "his full-grown bobcat self." At that point, he was a wild animal, nowhere near being a pet, and causing some trouble. "He’s come as close as 20 feet from us just a couple of weeks ago and snagged a duck," she said. "So we chased him throughout our neighborhood, trying to find where his den or home was and never found it."
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We suppose we'll never know whether this boobcat was the original cat that they had adopted. The woman believes that she recognized it, but there is a chance that these were two random unrelated encounters. Still, we choose to believe. Because thinking that someone had adopted a baby bobcat, even for a short while, makes us so ridiculously happy, we cannot even explain it. Would be happy if this happened to us, just sayin'.
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