Texas Wildlife Park is an appointment-only zoo that allows visitors to get up close and personal with some of the animals that live there, like a mountain lion named Kiara. Co-founder/owner of the park, a man named Rick, has raised her since she was a cub, and has a very special bond with her, as you’ll see in this video.

Molly is the social media manager for the park, and wanted to show us all how Kiara responds to her versus how she responds to Rick. She responds very strongly to both of them, but in very different ways!

Molly jokes about Kiara in the caption, saying, “She clearly has her favorites.” That seems to be somewhat of an understatement!

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Funny Reactions to Kiara’s Response to Molly

Everybody was surprised by how Kiara responded to Molly and had some funny things to say about it. Like @Ryan Davies, who got 20,000 likes when he said, “Kiara, when you came to the fence: ‘Where’s Rick?’ LOL!” Another commenter added, “Kiara: DON’T CAREEEEEE…Where’s Rick?” Another commenter got 14,000 likes when they added, “It’s giving, ‘Where’s Rick..dontttt care. Where’s Rick?’!”

Commenter @Obm pointed out, “Oh, that’s HER man.” @NaCl clarified, “Basically, but more like, overprotective daughter.”

@Spunk McKullins joked, “You’re not a threat, you’re competition.” @noneyabusiness replied, “Man, stop lying. She’s a snack!” @Amanda added, “Typical feline lol. Favorite human and spare human!”

“How does one get a big cat best friend? Asking for a friend…”, wondered @SPARTAN. @Polina had the best reply, “One must get big cat in small cat form. Pet small cat and convince it into being the bestest friends. Small cat gets big and you have best friend.”

@Eleanor cracked us all up when she said, “See, I knew where this was going from context clues at the beginning. However, at NO point did I know he would be IN THE GODD*MN ENCLOSURE!”

Funny enough, there’s also a tiger named Kai that lives at the wildlife park who responds to Rick and Molly the exact same way that Kiara does!

This story was originally published by PetHelpful on Apr 4, 2026, where it first appeared in the Pet News section. Add PetHelpful as a Preferred Source by clicking here.