If you think you've got pet problems—a dog who piddles on the carpet, a parrot that repeats swear words it picked up from your Netflix binges—just imagine adopting, and living with, a literal, honest-to-goodness cougar:
An 80-pound cougar was removed from a New York City apartment where she was being kept illegally as a pet, animal welfare officials said Monday.
The owner of the 11-month-old female cougar surrendered the animal on Thursday, Kelly Donithan, director of animal disaster response for the Humane Society of the United States, said in a news release.
The cougar, nicknamed Sasha, spent the weekend at the Bronx Zoo receiving veterinary care and is now headed to the Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas, officials said...
Donithan said this cougar was relatively lucky because her owners, who live in the Bronx, recognized that a wild cat is not fit to live in an apartment and surrendered her.
Here's video of the big cat:
Uh, yeah, I'm sure they did indeed "recognize" that a living, breathing cougar is "not fit to live in an apartment."
You know who else "recognizes" that? Literally everyone else in the world. It's pretty self-evident. You know why? Because a cougar is designed by God to do one thing, namely:
Here's to hoping Sasha the Cougar has happy days living her best life at Turpentine Creek!
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