Oops...

 

I had to smile at this report from Argentina.

Florencia, 18, was fishing with her brother when they found two kittens, approximately a week old ... Florencia did a noble thing – she took the kittens and wanted to help them grow and heal.

However, only one survived, and she named him Tito. His sibling died only a week after it was rescued.

As Florencia would soon learn, Tito, who was playful and adorable, was not an ordinary cat.

. . .

When the teen took the kitten to the vet after he suffered a minor injury, something was wrong. She told the press:

"The vet didn't know what it was but said it was not a normal cat."

. . .

Since even the vet was unsure, Florencia called the Horco Molle nature reserve. The employees at the nature reserve identified Tito's species.

Upon learning that Tito, her beloved kitten, was not a domestic cat, but a puma jaguarondi, they had to part ways ... Florencia took him to Horco Molle, where he would continue to grow in a natural habitat.

Despite losing her new pet, Florencia did a noble thing and gave at least one of the two cubs a chance to live. She misses her cat dearly, though: "I miss him a lot, he was waiting for me when I arrived from school."

There's more at the link.  A brief video of the kitten may be found here.

If she'd kept the kitten until fully grown, I think the local small wildlife - and other cats and smaller dogs in the neighborhood - might have learned the hard way that there was a new predator in town!

Peter