As veteriniarian Dr. Jocelyn Woodd right, removes an IV tube, her daughter Jessica, 11, helps calm a three-week old cougar cub at the Mt. Spokane Veterinary Hospital, Thursday, in Mead, Wash. The cub was found in Kettle Falls, Wash. without a mother and will now be heading to ZooAmerica in Hershey, Pennsylvania. (SR photo: Colin Mulvany)

A mountain lion kitten – with killer blue eyes, but too young and weak to prey on anything larger than a butterfly – is getting a one-way ticket from Eastern Washington to a Pennsylvania zoo. A Kettle Falls homeowner found the 3-week-old male kitten dehydrated and malnourished on the front porch. State Fish and Wildlife officers responded to the homeowner’s call and searched the area for signs of the mother mountain lion, but didn’t find her, said Madonna Luers, department spokeswoman. The kitten was brought to wildlife rehabilitators at Mt. Spokane Veterinary Hospital for treatment. The very-young cougar will survive with a lot of attention from certified wildlife rehabilitators, but it won’t be returned to the wild, Luers said/Rich Landers, Outdoors. More here.

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