Just six months ago, when Man Bahadur went to the forest in search of wild mushrooms, he heard something tweet. The tweet almost sounded like when a person whistles. When he approached the place the tweet was coming from, he found a pair of tiny red panda cubs, white and brown in color. The cubs were the "size of baby rats" and were both on the ground and helpless. At the time he thought they were fox pups, and he brought them to his cattle herding station and kept them in his goth (small hut). Man Bahadur assumed that their mother had died, likely as prey to a natural predator of red pandas. He assumed it was a natural death, and not poaching, because the forest from where he found the cubs is located near a community where Radio Ganatantra is stationed. Radio Ganatantra is a partner of Red Panda Network and regularly airs red panda conservation programs which have helped to increase local red panda awareness and stewardship.

On the first day he brought the cubs to the goth, they survived without eating anything, as he had no idea what to feed them. On the second day, he brought them home to the village, and his wife suggested he feed them goat's milk. After trial and error, the couple taught the cubs to drink goat's and cow's milk. After three weeks the cubs were able to feed by themselves. One day, Man Bahadur thought they could eat meat, as they looked like carnivores, and fed them a small amount of meat, but it seemed they couldn't digest the meat and vomited. Later on, when Man Bahadur saw that the cubs' waste was greenish in color, he suspected they might be eating grass. When he watched them, he found out that they were eating immature leaves of barley and corn. He then started to feed them leaves of bamboo and reduced the amount of milk.