Reply #80: Lorien, don't discount the spray bottle

[okasha]

just because Ashiki loves water. There's a bobcat at the local college's environmental center who was "rescued," probably quite unnecessarily, as a weeks-old kitten, and who's entirely comfortable with most humans, especially women. Due to some human misbehavior, however, an incident occurred in which a student was clawed rather badly. (The bobcat had the habit of jumping up into the arms of anyone he fancied. He still does it with me--likes to get on my shoulders and pull mouthfuls of hair, purring madly.) The director of the center asked advice from the curators at a major zoo and of a wildlife rescue in the area, and they suggested the squirt bottle. It's worked, and no one else has had an unpleasant experience. This bobcat also loves water. In fact, he has his own pool in his enclosure.

He's one of my favorite and most cooperative models. Here he is at about a year old: