Jane Dinscore says she picked up two kittens and took them home with her only to discover that they weren’t house cats at all. Instead, after she, her sister, and her niece, had all been bitten while trying to feed the babies, they discovered that the furry felines were wild bobcats.

That was what Dinscore claimed when her story hit the news. She told authorities that she found the kittens in an alley in San Antonio. Now she’s saying she received them from her brother, James Dinscore, from rural Atascosa County. She still claims she believed that they were domestic cats.

“My brother called and said he had some Bengal kittens at his house in McCoy,” Jane Dinscore told a San Antonio television station. She said she took the kittens to her home, but called Animal Care Services after they became aggressive. She said she lied about their origin because she didn’t want her brother to get in trouble.

Although it is uncertain how James Dinscore acquired the kittens, the ACS and Texas State Parks and Wildlife are working together to determine if there should be any criminal charges filed for disturbing wildlife.

The babies are now being held in quarantine by the Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation in San Antonio. Officials with the group say that because Dinscore lied about where the kittens came from it isn’t likely that they will be reunited with their mother, although they do hope to eventually release the bobcats in a safe area.

“Because the fragile window of opportunity to reunite them with their other has most likely passed, our goal now is to keep them wild and after a year or so, release them to a protected habitat where humans will never lay eyes on them,” officials said. “These bobcats will be in our care for over a year as their needs are highly specialized and their developmental time is lengthened when they are in captivity.”

In general, wild animals should be left in the wild. If you suspect that an animal needs assistance, you should call a wildlife rehabilitation center or animal control organization in your area. You can learn more about helping a stray or lost domestic pet at the Humane Society of the United States website.