Unlikely buddies

November

This has been floating around awhile, but finally made it’s way across the country to me. The Jesusita fire in Santa Barbara , Ca., this summer caused these two to take shelter together. The fawn is 3 days old here and the bobcat about 3 weeks.
The fawn came from somewhere in the fire and the bobcat from Carpentaria. They immediately bonded and snuggled together under a desk in the Santa Barbara County Dispatch Office for several hours. get-attachment.aspx

Animal Planet reported the kitten was rescued near Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ranch, where it was dehydrated and near death. They rescued the fawn during a wildfire. Although wild animals, especially of separate species, are never placed
together due to regulations, in this emergency situation, they had no choice. During the mayhem of the fire, they were forced to put animals anywhere they could, since they had run out of crates large enough for the fawn. The kitten ran to the fawn, and it was instant bonding. get-attachment-1.aspx

Aren’t kids so much smarter than grown-ups?

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 1:00 pm by Laurel Babcock. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Category: Animal behavior, Animal rescue, Animal safety, Animal weirdness, Cats

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3 Responses to “Unlikely buddies”

ilb2001 November 18th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Picture of the year? I’d say so.

Did you mean to say the animals are smarter than some humans?
Laurel Babcock November 18th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
That goes without saying…...
Linda November 18th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
great story, awesome pic

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