'He was kept in this cage for over a year': Beautiful wild ocelot that was held as someone's pet feline gets rescued and released back into the wild

When it comes to stories like these, where people capture big cats to keep them as pets, oftentimes, the change that the cats go through is irreversible. Many of these cats lose their instincts, and therefore, cannot be released into the wild and have to start looking for other purpose. Of course, when kind humans are involved, these cats can still live full lives with a new purpose, whether it's a bobcat becoming a foster momma to other bobcats and helping them be released into the wild, or if it's a lion becoming friends with a dachshund and finding joy in that.

But there are those rare times, those rare and joyful times, that the change is not irreversible, and the cats still have enough of their instincts to go back out into the world on their own and live their lives the way they were meant to be lived. This is one of those times. This ocelot got rescued early enough and that gave him a second chance at life. 

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