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In March, we reported on a wild bobcat that had been hit<\/a> and dragged by a car, who also got her head stuck in the car\u2019s grill. As if things could get any worse, the wild feline arrived at Raven Ridge Wildlife Center in Pennsylvania on a Sunday, and the nearby veterinary practice was closed. But thanks to two lucky acquaintances, a mobile x-ray machine was brought in, revealing that the bobcat had broken two legs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thanks in part to the fact that her bone fractures were clean breaks, her team decided to risk a surgery. The next morning, two surgeons operated on the bobcat contemporaneously. After the operation, Tracie Young, director of the Raven Ridge Wildlife Center, told Popular Science<\/em> that she was doing \u201cfantastic\u201d and \u201cstarting to act like a bobcat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In her great misfortune, the cat<\/a> has been rather lucky\u2014and it seems like the luck is holding. Two striking coincidences have now come together to get her a custom-made cage for her rehabilitation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter two months of recovery, the bobcat now needs to be moved outside for exercise and to begin building muscle tone,\u201d the wildlife center wrote on social media<\/a>. \u201cWe had to devise a safe and creative way to get her outdoors, necessitating the construction of special caging. We determined that a custom dog kennel would be the only viable option.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the problems were twofold: time and money. The dog<\/a> kennel builders the wildlife center contacted needed at least eight months to build the rehab cage, and the project would cost thousands of dollars. But then Raven Ridge\u2019s photographer Dawn called her neighbor Glen for suggestions, who turned out to be the owner of a kennel-building business and could build the kennel in two weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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And if you think that\u2019s enough of a coincidence, it gets even better. The very day construction commenced, Raven Ridge Wildlife Center received a letter with a generous donation. A woman named Raven Minervino has passed away, and her husband wrote that she had consistently supported the wildlife center. After she died, her husband had asked that rather than getting flowers, people make donations in her memory. The letter had a donation in her memory large enough to pay for the custom bobcat cage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to all this support, we successfully moved the bobcat to the new enclosure, where she is now exploring, exercising, and much happier,\u201d reads the social media post. Raven Ridge plans to (or perhaps already has) put a plaque in Minervino\u2019s memory on the cage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both of the bobcat\u2019s broken legs have healed, and since having the custom cage, she has put on ten pounds, bringing her to the much healthier total of 19 pounds. Adult female bobcats weigh approximately 15 to 20 pounds on average<\/p>\n

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