Sioux is a female bobcat who was born in 2013 and sent to the Mobile Zoo in Alabama along with another bobcat named Lakota.
Some say they were taken from the wild, and that they are siblings, but no one seems to know for sure. What we do know is that the zoo owner, John Hightower, was arrested on 28 counts of animal cruelty.
When native Florida bobcats come to us we rehab them for release back to the wild, but because Sioux’s heritage is unknown, and she spent her first 4 years in a zoo surrounded by people, she’s not a candidate for release.