Two orphaned bobcat sisters were released into the wild near Powell River, B.C., on Friday, 10 months after they were found malnourished near a logging road.
Last July, Merrilee Prior from the Powell River Orphaned Wildlife Society (PROWLS) says she got a call about two kittens being found by someone driving up a logging road near the Sunshine Coast city.
Prior says the kittens were perhaps two weeks old, and their mother had been killed a day or two prior. Their eyes had just opened, and the two bobcats were “very, very hungry.”
“You should have heard them roar as we tried to put food in their cage,” she told Jason D’Souza, host of CBC’s All Points West. “They snarled and sounded like something from a sci-fi movie.”
After …