A mountain lion cub left with a skull fracture and severe head and eye trauma after being struck by a car in Orange County earlier this year has made a sharp recovery and could soon return to the wild, the San Diego Humane Society announced on Saturday, Apr. 5.

The male cub was roughly four months old when he was found on the side of an Orange County road around Jan. 10. The location was not available on Sunday.

He was treated by the Serrano Animal & Bird Hospital in Lake Forest, and then transferred a few days later to the San Diego Humane Society’s Wildlife Center in Ramona for specialized rehabilitative care.

The 13-acre center is one of two facilities in California equipped with the proper medical tools and enclosures to rehabilitate mountain lions.

The organization said the young cub underwent intensive treatment, including nutritional support and pain management, after he suffered a skull fracture, along with head and eye trauma, and exhibited lameness in his left hind leg.