cougar kittens found in Burbank!

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2 lion cubs were found starving in Burbank CA under a parked car. They were picked up by animal control and are recovering at an animal sanctuary. From the Glendale Press

http://www.glendalenewspress.com/news/t ... 8861.story

Rescued mountain lion cubs to live in animal sanctuary

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One of the female cubs is photographed at the California Wildlife Center in Calabasas. (Courtesy of the California Wildlife Center)
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December 22, 2011 | 1:51 p.m.
Two emaciated mountain lion cubs rescued from the streets of Burbank on Tuesday will not be reintroduced into the wild, but rather live out their days in an animal sanctuary.

The female cubs, believed to be between two and three months old, were not with their mother long enough to learn life skills, such as hunting, said Cindy Reyes, executive director at the California Wildlife Center in Calabasas where the cubs were housed this week.

The cubs — which were days from starving to death when Burbank animal control officers rescued them from under a parked car after some residents tried hitting them with broomsticks to shoo the cats away — face many months of rehabilitation.

“When they came in they were very dehydrated as well and suffering from physical ailments — vomiting and that kind of thing,” Reyes said.

They are eating and drinking, but at 10 pounds each are about half the weight of healthy mountain lion cubs their age, Reyes said.

“Their behavior is good,” she said. “They are vastly improved from when they came in two days ago.”

The cubs are being treated for external and internal parasites, she added.

After they recover, the cubs — temporarily named No. 1 and No. 2 — will be too accustomed to human beings to survive on their own, Reyes said.

“You can’t take a grown up mountain lion who is used to people and release him into the local mountains,” she said.

No. 1 and No. 2 are to be transported to Zoo to You, a nonprofit conservation and education organization in Paso Robles, where they will remain indefinitely. Caretakers there will also give them permanent names.

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Photo: One of the female cubs is photographed at the California Wildlife Center in Calabasas. She and her sister, rescued from under a parked car in Burbank earlier this week, are slated to be transferred to sanctuary in Paso Robles, where they will live permanently. Credit: California Wildlife Center