The new cub claiming system at the giving tree gave me an idea.Just like how you can encounter a lioness you should be able to encounter a cub that someone chased.Like it hasn't been found by the monkey yet.I even have and idea for the encounter dialogue:

< You come across an abandoned cub.Its looks at you with tears it its eyes.What will you do?>

Kill, ignore, comfort

If you comfort it you will get this:

< "Thank you for being nice to me.Can i go home with you?"The cub says.

Your options will then be Leave, Adopt or Teach.The Teach option will let you teach the cub basic survival and hunting skills so that it can live on its own, similar to what you do in the Poacher event.The teach option will give positive karma, kill will give negative karma and the other options are karma neutral. it doesn't have to give karma though

I figure the art for when you enitialy encounter it will be a sad, crying cub sitting by itself.After you comfort it you will see what the cub actually looks like.I think this could be a really heartwarming option and you would be making a better bond with it then just enticing it with an item.The cub can be an adolescent as well, the game designers can decide if the adolescent gets its own encounter sprite.

After seeing a suggestion for a karma neutral option for the giving tree i had a better idea for this.if the karma neutral giving tree option was implemented those that were given up using that option would appear at the tree only.Chased cubs and possibly nature reserve cubs however would have a chance at appearing as an abandoned cub encounter with their family and stats gone from their records, similar to an ncl that was a chased lioness. It would be a rare encounter. If it is preferred this encounter could be reserved for the Poacher event only since you run into orphaned cubs during the event anyway, thus making the encounter even more rare.Also any training they had would be reset to zero but their stats would remain the same.This could also work for the encounter with the dying mother and cub encounter in August. If you choose to take in the cub there will be a small chance of it surviving and you will get a random cub that someone chased.