Wild Cats
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We Interview Tippi Hedren on Her Big Cat Shambala Preserve
The actress made famous in Hitchcock films has been an advocate for wild animals -- and an opponent of breeders and traffickers for 30 years.
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Big-Cat Caretaker Dana Fredsti Still Finds Time for the Kittens
Volunteering at a conservation center for leopards and lions by day and fostering feral kittens by night, Dana Fredsti is the ultimate cat lady!
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I Got to Pet and Play With a Baby Tiger!
Last week I had the most amazing opportunity — I got to pet and play with a baby tiger! His name was Jiruani and he is almost three months old. He has his sister were rejected by their mom, and McCarthy’s Wildlife Sanctuary was asked if they could take them in and care for them. …
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Adorable Baby Tiger Quintuplets Born in China
Can’t see the video? Watch it here. An 11-year-old Manchurian tiger recently gave birth to quintuplets in a zoo in China’s Heilongjiang Province. “They are very healthy and their conditions at this stage are stable, says Ma Guoqing, the breeder. The record number of cubs born at one time was set by another Manchurian tiger …
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Rare Wild Cats Born from Pre-Katrina Embryos
ORLEANS — The latest rare wildcat kittens at a New Orleans conservation center were born from embryos frozen before Hurricane Katrina. The two male African black-footed cats are among the worlds smallest felines. Theyll grow to about one-third the size of the average housecat. Scientists in Omaha, Neb., collected and froze the fathers sperm in …
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$80,000 Service Cat Missing in Longview TX
Motzie, a 22-pound Hybrid Savannah Cat, is missing in East Texas. He Houdinied his way out of a hotel room Wednesday night by taking advantage of a door that didn’t close properly. He’s a rare Hybrid Serval-Savannah cat, estimated to be worth $80,000, but the companionship he gives his owner, Deborah Ann Milette, is priceless. …
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25 Bolivian Lions Find Happy Ending on 80 Acres in Colorado
A herculean international effort to rescue circus lions from horrific conditions in Bolivia has come to a very happy ending. Most had been housed for years in cramped rusty cages in which they could barely turn around, but will now live out their lives on 80 acres at the Wild Animal Sanctuary northeast of …
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Cross-Eyed Puma Hopes to Capitalize on Cross-Eyed Possum’s Fame
The Tiergarten Delitzsch Zoo in eastern Germany is hoping that Frank the cross-eyed jaguarundi (a type of puma) will catapult them to fame in the same way that another 4-legged German, Heidi the cross-eyed possum at the nearby Leipzig Zoo, enjoys. 14-year-old Frank is thought to have been born with crossed eyes and the head …
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Who’s Creepier? Stalking Cat Man or Leopard Man?
Extreme body mods are not for the squeamish. In this example, 44-year-old Dennis Avner has transformed himself into a stalking cat. He’s no pussy when it comes to body modification: tattoos, silicon implants on his face, pointed teeth, surgically pointed ears, piercings, attachable whiskers, claws, a bifurcated top lip and even an animatronic tigers tail. …
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Cub Cuteness — Seeing Spots!
Darling two-month-old cubs Viento and Estrella curl up next to momcat Sara at the Berlin Zoo. How many spots do you see? [SOURCE: SFGate.com]
