There is a joke among pet owners that when choosing a dog you carefully research breeders or shelters in your area, probably pay a sizeable fee and even have to pass a screening to ensure your home and family are suitable.
Yet cat adoption stories more often involve some stray wandering into your house and making itself at home.
That's what happened when 18-year-old Florencia Lobo and her brother were fishing in Tucuman, Argentina, and came across a dead cat and two starving kittens.
They named the kittens Dani and Tito, taking them home to nurse them back to health.
He shadowed Florencia everywhere and even responded to her when she whistled. She said that he seemed "a bit too active" (which is saying something about a kitten), but figured it wasn't a big deal.
Though they weren't sure exactly what Tito was, the veterinarian immediately knew that the one thing he definitely wasn't is a common house cat.
Which is definitely not meant to be kept as a pet, and Florencia surrendered the young cougar to the Argentine Animal Rescue Foundation for rehabilitation and release back into the wild.
"I miss him a lot, he was waiting for me when I arrived from school," she said, according to El Tucumano via The Mirror.
But hopefully, he'll remember her fondly as he lives in his natural habitat.
h/t: The Mirror
