Rare Sand Cat Kittens Born In Israel

So, when Rotem's original mate Sela died, the Safari people began combing the world's zoos for a replacement and last September, chose the husky male Kalahari, 3, from Sweden. It was not love at first sight. We had expected that after the two young cats had met and been exposed one to the other properly, they would take to one another, but they didn't, says Horowitz. When put together during the day, the cats neither locked lips, nor talons for that matter. They didn't engage in hostile actions – they didn't expose fangs, for instance, she says. What happened is we put them together - and nothing happened. They would look at one another but kept it platonic.