女子救下的小貓原來是只美洲獅

這是一個瘋狂的故事。

An Argentine woman rescued a cuddly abandoned kitten — only to learn two months later that the new pet was actually a wild puma.

一位阿根廷婦女救了一只可愛的被遺棄的小貓，但兩個月后她才知道這只新寵物其實是只美洲獅。

Florencia Lobo said she and her brother found the furry feline along with another young kitten next to a dead adult in the Tucuman Province in northwestern Argentina and took them both home.

弗洛倫西亞·洛博說，她和她的兄弟在阿根廷西北部的圖庫曼省發(fā)現(xiàn)了這只毛茸茸的小貓，旁邊還有一只小貓，再旁邊是一只死去的成年貓，他們把它們都帶回家了。

“We thought that it was an abandoned cat who had given birth,” she told Reuters.

“我以為這是一只被遺棄的貓生下的孩子，”她告訴路透社。

One of the kittens was too weak and didn’t survive, but the second, a male, made it through the ordeal. Lobo nursed him back to health and named him Tito.

其中一只小貓?zhí)撊?，沒能活下來，但另一只，一只雄性，挺過了這場磨難。洛博悉心照料他，使他恢復(fù)了健康，并給他取名蒂托。

Two months later she took Tito to the vet for a checkup and got an unexpected prognosis.

兩個月后，她帶蒂托去獸醫(yī)那里檢查，并得到了一個意想不到的預(yù)后。

“The vet didn’t know what it was but said it was not a normal cat,” Lobo said.

“獸醫(yī)不知道它是什么，但說它不是一只正常的貓。”洛博說。

At the vet’s recommendation, she took Tito to the Horco Molle nature reserve, where staffers confirmed that the cat was a jaguarundi, a small wild cat found in South American and southern North America.

在獸醫(yī)的建議下，她帶蒂托去了霍科莫爾自然保護(hù)區(qū)，那里的工作人員證實這只貓是美洲虎，一種生活在南美洲和北美洲南部的小型野貓。

Tito now calls the nature reserve home.

蒂托現(xiàn)在稱自然保護(hù)區(qū)為家。