
Have I mentioned I absolutely love animals?
I do. All animals.
I refuse to kill spiders. I put snakes I find in my yard in little boxes and drive them out to the desert. I carry a bag of alfalfa cubes in my car in case I run into a burro. (Never feed them along the roadway, though! Duh.)
Anyway – I love creatures of all sorts – which is why I LOVE LOVE LOVE this little scamp.
May I present: Mr. Murderbritches.
Watch these wildlife officials struggle to stay alive as they release the world’s most badass bobcat kitten back into the wild. The bobcat, who we’re calling Mr. Murderbritches, was relocated after he was caught eating 🐔🐔🐔 in Kanarraville, UT.
Long live Mr. Murderbritches! pic.twitter.com/j0ABaR8cqk
— Center for Bio Div (@CenterForBioDiv) December 5, 2018
I WANT HIM.
HE’S SO CUTE AND FEISTY AND AAAANGRY. (Just like me.)
According to Fox News:
The video, initially posted by the Utah DWR on Nov. 26, went viral after the Center for Biological Diversity, a non-profit organization based in Arizona, reposted it with “quotes” from the feline himself.
“I GET U BOI,” the bobcat “says” while snarling and swatting at Carver in the video. “I SAVAGE U,” he adds with a hiss.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the video had more than 700,000 views on Twitter.
An embarrassing amount of those views were from me…
Carver was first made aware of Mr. Murderbritches after a homeowner in Kanarraville spotted the feline in their chicken coop on Nov. 21, the day before Thanksgiving. The cat was in the coop but hadn’t killed any chickens at the time. He was let out by an Iron County sheriff’s deputy, Carver told Fox News on Tuesday.
A live trap was promptly set up just in case Mr. Murderbritches returned, and he did: The following day the cat was found in the trap. He was subsequently held for one night in captivity and was later released away from the property.
But Mr. Murderbritches was a determined young thing…
But the cunning feline somehow found his way back. This time, he successfully killed and ate a chicken from the coop.
Carver then took the cat to a mountainous area west of where he was first found. But little to Carver’s knowledge, this wouldn’t be his last encounter with the feline. Mr. Murderbritches then made his way to an isolated property miles away from where he was freed. There, he was found stuck in a dog kennel.
“He was probably looking for an easy meal and got scared [by the dog],” Carver theorized.
Carver captured the cat once more, feeding him a delicious meal of roadkill deer and a pheasant killed by an eagle before releasing the feline even farther away near Indian Peaks, an area Carver said provides “a lot of food resources.” The conservation officer hasn’t seen him since
STAY AWAY, YOU MURDEROUS, ADORABLE SCAMP!
Carver said bobcats typically leave their mother at about six months of age. While Mr. Murderbritches appears to be small, his willingness to hunt for food — even trekking for miles to do so — is a good sign for the juvenile.
“I do everything in my power to protect wildlife,” Carver said. “The best case here is to try to [help him] make it on his own. If he wasn’t doing well we wouldn’t have released him; we would have looked for a rehab center to take him to.”
And while the Mr. Murderbritches’ behavior may scare some, Carver found it amusing.
“I get a kick out of wildlife being wild,” Carver said, noting the cat was “too mean” for the conservation officer to tell if the animal was male or female at first.
Reaching out and getting [swatted] … he cracked me up,” Carver said, noting he never expected the video of the first release to go viral.
“I liked his attitude,” he added.
Me too! He’s a fighter!
And because I just KNOW someone’s gonna come at me with some “I’d just SHOOT it in its cage.” crap, let me just say this: You don’t deserve the world God made us. I’m not sorry. I hope you don’t leave your house much. You should stay inside where big bad mean baby animals don’t threaten you.