A woman in Argentina took a kitten home after finding it near a settlement in Tucuman province and ended up with a big surprise.
When Florencia Lobo took the feline for a checkup a couple of months later, the vet told her this was no housecat, RTE News reports. (The cat and another kitten had been found near a deceased adult cat; the other kitten did not survive.)
“The vet didn’t know what it was but said it was not a normal cat and gave me the number of the [Horco Molle nature] reserve,” Lobo was quoted saying.
She soon learned that the cat was in fact a puma. It’s now being looked after at the reserve in anticipation of a return to the wild.
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