# @MemphisZoo on Twitter

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://twitter.com/MemphisZoo/status/1839680541098119345
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33762646-MemphisZoo-twitter
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- **Posted:** 2024-09-27T14:56:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Memphis Zoo (@MemphisZoo) — https://gondola.cc/MemphisZoo

## Caption

Everyone… meet Puddles! 🐱🎣 He doesn’t mind the rain!

This handsome boy came to Memphis Zoo recently as part of a breeding recommendation from Oklahoma City Zoo (@okczoo), and we are thrilled to have this local celebrity join our Cat Country exhibit!

Associate Curator of Cat Country and Zambezi at Memphis Zoo, Anna Chaney, manages the AZA fishing cat program and holds the studbook for the AZA population. Unfortunately, fishing cats lost their SSP status in 2023 as only a few zoos have them and their population is quite small. Because of this, Anna is working with the remaining zoos in the nation with fishing cats and establishing a Fishing Cat Consortium.

According to Anna, Puddles is a “spicy” boy as most fishing cats are, however, he is also very smart. He was born at Oklahoma City Zoo on March 31, 2018 by caesarean delivery at the Oklahoma City Zoo’s Joan Kirkpatrick Animal Hospital to first-time mom 11-year-old Miri. This was the first successful cesarean delivery of a fishing cat among Association of Zoos and Aquariums member zoos in North America. Puddles was trained to do many behaviors, and his keepers did an incredible job caring for him. He is trained for many basic behaviors as well as voluntary subcutaneous fluid administration and voluntary blood draw. 

Puddles and Korra, Memphis Zoo’s female fishing cat, have already gotten to know each other day by day and are doing great! 

Puddles is much larger and stockier than Korra with a big round head so it’s easy for our you to tell them apart. Head on over to Cat Country and give our new friend a warm welcome. ❤️

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