14 DAY TRIAL // Thanks to folks at the Oregon Zoo, three orphaned cougar cubs rescued last month will soon have a place to call home.
Thus, two of the cubs, who have been living at the Oregon Zoo since the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife found them and brought them here, will soon move to Kansas to live at the Lee Richardson Zoo.
The third one, who has also been living at said facility over the past few weeks, will be sent to the New York State Zoo at Thompson Park.
According to Zoo Borns, the cubs are all females. Not at all surprisingly seeing how they are born predators, none of them seems willing to behave like a proper young lady.
“They are tiny and feisty,” keeper Michelle Schireman says. “They’re only 8 pounds [2.26 kg] right now – about the size of small house cats – but with feet the size of hockey pucks. They still have blue eyes and fuzzy spotted coats, which they will eventually grow out of,” she adds.
Because they were very young when they were found and would therefore have serious trouble trying to survive in the wild, the cubs will spend the rest of their lives in captivity.