An injured cougar that was diagnosed as blind and taken in by an Argentinian animal rescue center has learned to respond to his carer’s voice and the pair have formed a unique bond.
Kai Pacha, 54, is the president of Pumakawa Animal Reserve, a nonprofit conservation, rescue, and rehabilitation center in Villa Rumipal in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.
It was the summer tourist season of 2017 when an injured, one-month-old cougar was brought to the reserve by a concerned family who found him on the roadside.
Pacha told The Epoch Times: “He was run over by a combine harvester. … He was transported in a small cage. He was very careful with the family: parents and two adolescent children. They were very worried about his contortions, and they believed he had epilepsy. Only when I saw him, I knew he had a severe stomachache.”…