Safe travels, and run free, little lady – May 2019 

JosieJosie was the second wildcat to come to WildCat Ridge back in 1998. She came from a facility in Georgia that couldn’t keep her. Josie was just six months old when she arrived and she became BoBo’s lifelong companion. She was twenty-one years old when she had a seizure in May of 2019. We rushed her to the clinic but found a huge tumor on her heart and she had thrown a blood clot  As heartbreaking as it was, we didn’t wake her up from the anesthesia.

Even though we knew the time would come sooner than later, losing her was still unexpected. Caring for her and being part of her life for so many years it’s still hard to process that we’ll never see her putting silly things on her head, or hear her purr or watch her cuddling with BoBo. She taught us about bobcats and made us want to do all we could for the ones that came after her. Josie was so dear to us and she leaves a huge hole in our hearts. Safe travels sweet girl, we miss you every day.

Posted by Cheryl Tuller