Watch Couple Who Live With Two Bobcats As Their Children!

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A childless couple has spoken out about their lifestyle and revealed why their two bobcats fulfill their family and act as their children.

Melissa and Mick McAllister from Texas have two unusual children, Gypsy and Monaco the bobcats, whom they couldn’t be prouder of.

“They’re just like children. The father, they know they could rough house with and mom they want to cuddle – they can come to me,” Melissa said in an interview with Barcroft TV.

“When I was a kid I found a bobcat, wrestling around in some hay in a barn and I didn’t know any better because I was a kid – so I scooped it up and took it inside and I showed my aunt and said ‘I want to keep this and right away,’” Mick added.

“I talked her into allowing me to keep it and he was about three to four months old before it gets hit by a car. It was very affectionate so I remembered that as a kid and thought if there is ever a point in time as an adult where we could try again with one, I really want to give it a shot.”

As the couple revealed, their first bobcat, Basil, went through an unfortunate disappearance and they’ve never seen it since.

“Our first bobcat’s name was Basil and we got her when she was like literally a little bigger than a cell phone. We brought her home, raised her as a baby,” Mick said.

“One day Basil came up missing. She was so calm that we would let her out in the backyard. She would roam and chase birds and stuff like that, and then she would come to the backdoor just like a puppy would when she was done and ask to come in.

“One time she was out there in the weekend and a bad storm rolled in, and I think it just spooked her. She experienced something she never known possible and that was it, she was gone. We spent almost seven months looking for her.”

To cope with the loss, the couple started volunteering at a sanctuary for bobcats where they learned a lot about handling the wild cats.

“Well, in our efforts to try to find Basil we actually found a lady named Val. She owns a sanctuary,” Melissa explained.

“What we found was at the sanctuary she had near 60 bobcats. Some that were injured and some of them were owner-surrendered. We decided that we really loved her and we loved other bobcats, so we started actually volunteering our time there.”

Thanks to their new hobby, the couple soon came across two bobcats they decided to adopt and take care of.

“It got to the point when Val was like: ‘You know what? We have a couple of cats that were bred and they were brought into a home. They can never be re-released. And they would be much happier in a home than in a cage,” the woman added. “It was supposed to be just one. But we ended up having two.”

Fast forward a few months, the couple brought Monaco and Gypsy home and started getting used to their life together.

“I totally understand the controversy of people saying from the outside that we are taking these wild animals and pulling them from being wild,” Melissa shared.

“These bobcats can’t be released and so it is the choice of them living in a cage or living in a home where they were raised to begin with and so this is all that they know.

“They are very happy and they are very comfortable here so I am not a proponent of breeders. I really wish they wouldn’t breed bobcats but there are certain circumstances where they have been bred and this is the best opportunity for them.”

As the couple added, their two “children” got used to the human way of life pretty fast considering they are still wild cats.

“So in the house as soon as they find the toilet, that’s their preferred place to go to the bathroom because it hides their scent which is so cool,” Melissa explained.

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