So this has nothing to do with Vet School stuff except for the fact that I REALLY LOVE EXOTICS!!!! I surprised Brian to a visit to a Big Cat Sanctuary in Wisconsin! It was truly amazing!! The website is here:
www.wisconsinbigcats.org and if you want to check it out and donate feel free!! They have at least 22 large cats - bengal tigers, african lions, siberian tigers, black leopards (aka panthers), spotted leopards, and one serval! They saved a bunch from a backyard breeder who had 20+ cats in two tiny cages built with the space for only one or two cats! They also got a couple from zoo's in wisconsin and illinois that shut down or didn't have room for them. They let people walk along the cages (not to close of course) and read about the cats' lives on a self-guided tour. Brian and I stayed about 2 hours and did two really slow laps! Kahn, a siberian tiger, was just like our cat Dood at home. We were the only ones there for a bit and he was rubbing up on the cage about 3 feet from us and making their funny snorts and we were snorting back! He enjoyed my talking attempts and when Brian and I decided to go on to the next cage he flipped over on his back all playful like he wanted bellyrubs!! The whole time I was there my heart was overjoyed at these people who have saved these animals lives and made it their lives work to care and protect them! I want to do as good of things as these people and I know being a veterinarian is the only career path that would suit me and allow me to do those things!
IT WAS A TRULY GREAT DAY!!!
Tiger striped Mickey Mouse with half of the cages in the background.
Kahn being all playful
Kahn showing us how handsome he could be
I believe this was parker, but he was pacing back and forth snorting at me and trying to get our pheremones, hence why his tongue is out at us! He liked talking to Brian and I!
3 of 4 leopards (one had his own cage). Boy on the top level, two females on the bottom level all came to the sanctuary together.
Two males which rarely live together but have been together since they were very little so they don't know that they are different species!
Two sisters!! <3
Avalanche the BIG male (literally twice her size) and Snowflake the small female!!!
Tiger striped Mickey Mouse with half of the cages in the background.
Kahn being all playful
Kahn showing us how handsome he could be
I believe this was parker, but he was pacing back and forth snorting at me and trying to get our pheremones, hence why his tongue is out at us! He liked talking to Brian and I!
3 of 4 leopards (one had his own cage). Boy on the top level, two females on the bottom level all came to the sanctuary together.
Two males which rarely live together but have been together since they were very little so they don't know that they are different species!
Two sisters!! <3
Avalanche the BIG male (literally twice her size) and Snowflake the small female!!!
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