Bobcat rescued after being hit by car and getting stuck in grille

A.J. Michaels was driving to a restaurant in north Scottsdale, Arizona, on Friday night when he hit an animal in the road.



When he arrived at the restaurant, Michaels walked around his vehicle checking for damage and discovered the object he had hit. He saw a bobcat, alive and apparently okay, stuck in the grille of his car "I felt very badly it had been hit," Michaels said.



"I thought I killed it. You have the fact that it had basically not used up any of its nine lives," Michaels added. Experts from the Arizona Game and Fish Department then had to figure out how best to rescue the bobcat.


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From all indications, the animal was not bleeding. Rescuers were successful in freeing the animal. Upon further examination, the bobcat appeared to have suffered a back injury.

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