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CHATTANOOGA, TN — A Tennessee woman thought it was the right thing to stop her car one evening earlier this month and scoop up and rescue a young cat romping in the grass dangerously close to a busy highway. It was the right thing — just not the right thing Jill Hicks thought.
The little tabby wasn’t a kitten that would grow up like Gracie Lou, Hicks’ cat.
She was a bobcat cub, the kind of cat that, now that it’s in the care of a wildlife group, has a chance to grow up to be a stealth hunter able to pounce up to 10 feet to capture rabbits, birds, mice, squirrels and other small game, but also prey much bigger than she is.
As the story of the unintended bobcat rescue unfolded on Facebook, a small animal running around in a yard caught Hicks’ eye as she was driving the evening of Sept. 20. At first, she thought it was a bunny, but on a closer look, it appeared to be a kitten. So she stopped.
“Surprisingly,” she wrote on Facebook, “it didn’t run from me.”
And the little bobcat cub acted just like any other kitten. She climbed all over Hicks. The pretty, furry animal explored the floorboard under her feet, “and after stopping a couple of times to get it nestled into my lap, I finally got home with it,” Hicks wrote.
The kind-hearted woman made a nice place in the garage for the animal she’d rescued. She filled a litter box, set out food and water, and made a bed in a box with a soft sweater. She wanted to find a home for the cat and posted her notice on Facebook, calling it a “bobtail cat.”
Hicks said that when she “started really looking at her with my neighbors, we decided she might be a bobcat kitten.”
The next morning, she sent pictures to a woman with a wildlife rescue group.
“Yep,” the woman reportedly said, “that’s a bobcat.”
The cub, named Arwen, is now getting tender care at For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue, a nonprofit in Chattanooga.
She’s eating formula and gaining weight — Arwen only weighed 10 ounces when Hicks took her to the rescue — and will be released to the wild when she’s strong enough.
You can help with the care of Arwen and other wildlife in the care of For Fox Sake by donating items on an Amazon wishlist page.
Even if she’d known Arwen was a bobcat and not a kitten, Hicks would still have stopped her vehicle that day.
“As close to the busy road as it was, I’d still have saved it,” she wrote, adding:
“I honestly just thought it was a really pretty kitten! … I was concerned that someone had thrown out a kitten, and we have coyotes everywhere. … No way could I just leave her to fend for herself being that small.”
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Wildlife officials say the cub is about 5 weeks old, still young enough to be with its mother.
Hicks said she’s not sure if Arwen “got lost from [her] momma” or how she came to be along the road that day. Bobcat mothers sometimes leave their offspring in a safe place while they’re hunting.
“It made me sad to think … I took this one from her and she spent all night searching for her baby but I had no idea it was a bobcat,” Hicks wrote. “I thought it was a kitten and just wanted to keep it from getting hit by a car or eaten by coyotes.”
Hicks wrote that she has strong feeling Anwer “will live happily ever after.”