Cutest. Webcam. Ever.
I've been posting this all over the place, so might as well keep up the obnoxiousness over here. :)
Kitten Cam
Short backstory: Big Cat Rescue is an exotic cat rescue facility here in Tampa. I've been there a few times and posted pictures here, but am too lazy right now to go hunt down those posts. Anyway, they rescue exotic cats from people who mistakenly thought they could have them as pets, and from circuses and wildlife parks that treat them badly and give them a safe place to live out the rest of their lives. It's a really great place. Recently, a hunter in Alabama killed (not sure if it was intentionally or not) a mother bobcat, orphaning her 3 kittens. He took the kittens with the intention of giving them to his kids (idiot), but luckily contacted a local vet for advice on raising them, so they were quickly taken from him and brought to the attention of BCR, who took them in. They found a mother cat at a local shelter who willingly adopted the kittens as her own (apparently this happens sometimes, but is rare), so she's not nursing them along with 2 of her own kittens, and they have a webcam set up with a live stream for people to watch. It's too freaking adorable. My entire work day has been shot, because I can't stop watching teh cute.
I always feel bad for mother cats, though, when I see how demanding kittens can be. Mama (our outside feral cat) always looked so exhausted when she had a litter. This one kind of looks like that, too.
Kitten Cam
Short backstory: Big Cat Rescue is an exotic cat rescue facility here in Tampa. I've been there a few times and posted pictures here, but am too lazy right now to go hunt down those posts. Anyway, they rescue exotic cats from people who mistakenly thought they could have them as pets, and from circuses and wildlife parks that treat them badly and give them a safe place to live out the rest of their lives. It's a really great place. Recently, a hunter in Alabama killed (not sure if it was intentionally or not) a mother bobcat, orphaning her 3 kittens. He took the kittens with the intention of giving them to his kids (idiot), but luckily contacted a local vet for advice on raising them, so they were quickly taken from him and brought to the attention of BCR, who took them in. They found a mother cat at a local shelter who willingly adopted the kittens as her own (apparently this happens sometimes, but is rare), so she's not nursing them along with 2 of her own kittens, and they have a webcam set up with a live stream for people to watch. It's too freaking adorable. My entire work day has been shot, because I can't stop watching teh cute.
I always feel bad for mother cats, though, when I see how demanding kittens can be. Mama (our outside feral cat) always looked so exhausted when she had a litter. This one kind of looks like that, too.