Orphaned bobcats put on 8 times their body weight before return to CO wilderness
A pair of orphaned bobcats were ready to go back to the Colorado wilderness after putting on more than eight times their body weight, officials said.
The kittens spent the year growing and gaining weight at a wildlife rehabilitation facility in Colorado, wildlife officials said.
“We released 2 bobcats May 28 at Bosque Del Oso State Wildlife Area in @CPW_SE region after they spent 11 months at CPW’s Frisco Creek Wildlife Rehab in Del Norte,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s Southwest Region said in a June 5 post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “When the orphaned kittens came to us last July, they weighed 1.5 and 2.5 (pounds) each. Now they’re both 20 (pounds)!”
Video shows officials coaxing the bobcats out of a metal cage one after the other.
“At Frisco Creek, the bobcats were kept warm and fed in an indoor structure until they were big enough to go outside and learn how to hunt on their own,” officials said. “They were released at the end of May to correspond with higher numbers of available prey to ease the transition back to the wild.”
