By Colleen Grzan, werc@werc-ca.org
A third bobcat kitten has just arrived at the Wildlife Education Rehabilitation Center. “Cruz”, who was found abandoned in Santa Cruz, is a feisty 12 weeks old who has joined the other two bobcat kittens, Morro and Fresno, in the indoor nursery. All three will be transferred to the outside enclosure at W.E.R.C. this Wednesday, where they will have plenty of room to run and climb and play bobcat games. Their surrogate mother (a human in full-body bobcat costume) will continue to bring them their daily diet of small rodents and reinforce hunting behavior through “play”.
Two videos show how W.E.R.C.’s successful bobcat rehabilitation method works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsts86_WeMs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cp4emaOZXg
Watch this blog for periodic updates on the three little kittens.