Squee alert! Dallas Zoo celebrates birth of a little ocelot
Born March 20, the ocelot kitten is almost ready to explore its habitat — and meet Dad.
Mother’s Day at the Dallas Zoo was a little bit sweeter this year.
On Sunday, the zoo announced the birth of a blue-eyed baby ocelot, a small wild cat native to Texas.
The kitten was born March 20 to 6-year-old Milagre, said zoo spokeswoman Lydia Jennings.
Milagre gave birth to the kitten and has been nurturing it since in a den box the zoo built to give the pair privacy, as ocelots are very secretive animals, Jennings said.
The kitten is Milagre’s second and has been staying close to its mother, who is the sole caretaker. Milagre is “once again embracing motherhood tremendously,” Lisa Van Slett, the zoo’s carnivore assistant supervisor, said in a written statement.
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I know--who wouldn't fall for such a cutie.
well maybe one day, one of these...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_cat#/media/File:BengalCat_Stella.jpg
I do that when a cat doesn't "present" itself to me. My current cat is one I got from the shelter, but I wanted a Siamese type especially if it was a tabby point or similar. I almost adopted a pair of older Siamese mix cats that belonged together - they were found wandering together and got upset if separated. I put in my application on the first day of the waiting period after they arrived at the shelter. But the elderly lady that owned them recovered the pair. They'd been let loose by a delivery person and she'd been frantically searching for them. Everyone was happy they could go home.
The shelter didn't have any other Siamese at the time and no other cats appealed to me so I left my application with them and decided to go back in a few days. The next day they called me - someone in a neighboring county had turned in a litter of feral kittens and one was a Siamese. I drove in and adopted the little guy - I thought about adopting a sister but the rest of the litter was spoken for already. They had held the Siamese mix for me!
That was 14 years ago and that kitten has acquired a lot of color on his body, but he's still very distinctive:
your post is useless without pix 
When I was on safari in Kenya, I was in the dining area at one of the camps and I saw something small and orange dart out from under one table and go to the table right next to ours. Then it peeked its head out. It was a Serval.
They are really cute.
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
"I'm looking for a terrorist and an ocelot."
"What?"
"Not necessarily in that order. "
Archer is currently the biggest squee-er over this!
