Collisions with cars don’t often end well for wildlife, but one lucky bobcat is recovering at DuPage Wildlife Conservation Center after a rescue involving multiple partners.
The saga started last week in Oregon, Ill., when a homeowner found a semi-conscious bobcat in her front yard, near a busy highway. She called a wildlife trapper, who brought the cat to Oaken Acres Wildlife Center in Sycamore, where rehabbers quickly realized the cat needed more help than they could provide.
The cat, a young female likely less than a year old, was “pretty gosh darn spicy” on arrival at Oaken Acres and “we were afraid we would either further injure the cat or one of our staff if we tried to remove it from the trap without sedation. We do not have those drugs available to us,” Oaken Acres staff shared on social media…