--- title: Stray Cat Enters St Petersburg Russia Zoo, Becomes Friends With Lynx description: A very important new animal friendship canonical: https://time.com/2894336/stray-cat-befriends-lynx/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-18T15:34:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:53.403Z og:title: This Stray Cat Broke Into a Zoo and Became Best Friends With a Lynx og:description: Our favorite new animal friendship og:url: https://time.com/2894336/stray-cat-befriends-lynx/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Stray Cat Broke Into a Zoo and Became Best Friends With a Lynx twitter:description: Our favorite new animal friendship twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Stray Cat Broke Into a Zoo and Became Best Friends With a Lynx by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 18, 2014 3:34 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 18, 2014 3:34 PM UTC A few months ago, we got really excited when an amicable meerkat[ befriended a husky](http://time.com/70135/meerkat-befriends-husky/), because unlikely animal friendships are what we _live_ for. Today, we’d like to highlight a new animal friendship. It’s not quite as surprising as a husky and a meerkat, but we promise it’s just as adorable and heartwarming. It all began when a homeless calico cat made her way into the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Zoo, [according to ](http://kfor.com/2014/06/18/watch-a-stray-cat-makes-its-way-into-the-st-petersburg-zoo-and-you-wont-guess-what-happens-next/)KFOR. The stray found food in a lynx’s enclosure, and the lynx accepted the cat into her life. Soon enough, they became besties. Watch the video above to see this dynamic duo in action. And here’s a gallery of adorable pictures: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2894336/stray-cat-befriends-lynx/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2894336/stray-cat-befriends-lynx/"},"headline":"This Stray Cat Broke Into a Zoo and Became Best Friends With a Lynx","datePublished":"2014-06-18T15:34:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:53.403Z","description":"A very important new animal friendship","url":"https://time.com/2894336/stray-cat-befriends-lynx/","keywords":["Newsfeed","russia","animals","cats","Zoo"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2894336/stray-cat-befriends-lynx/","name":"This Stray Cat Broke Into a Zoo and Became Best Friends With a Lynx"}}]}] ```