PILIBHIT TIGER RESERVE: Wildlife Safari, Research, Conservation, Awareness
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Last Night a successful Leopard rescue in a small village
Total Time spend in operation 16 Hours
Result – Leopard release in forest
By Advocate | January 1, 2013 at 4:45 pm
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The Wildcat Sanctuary’s director has a quote that often rings in my head. “We cannot rescue ourselves out of the captive wildlife crisis.” I’ve only been at the Sanctuary a short time and I humbly admit now that when I started here I thought we COULD rescue our way out. I thought if we and other accredited sanctuaries just took in all the unwanted, exploited abandoned cats, we could “fix” the problem.
Now, six months later and countless desperate phone calls from people wanting to surrender cats or report abuse, I know the truth. We cannot rescue our way out of the captive wildlife crisis. For every cat we rescue, a breeder somewhere is making six more. For every exotic pet we have surrendered to us, there are hundreds more left in tiny cages, chained to the ground or ignored in backyards.
While this information came as a huge disappointment to me, and a stunning reality check that has kept me awake on more than one night, it has also inspired me to learn more about how we CAN make a difference.
I often think back to the 1970′s impactful public service announcement showcasing a Native American man in a canoe 
shedding a tear for the environment. Back in the 70′s, it was commonplace for people to throw trash out their car windows. Fast food bags, pop cans, empty cigarette packs and even diapers were tossed with no regard for what it may be doing to the environment.
Through the years, we realized the error of our ways. We woke up to our ignorance of the truth. If everyone uses the earth as their garbage can, there will no future for our children. I don’t think the people of the 70′s and before were any meaner, or less intelligent than we are today. They were just ignorant, uninformed and not educated on the environment.
Likewise, I think this is the very root of the captive wildlife crisis. People do not realize that when they attend circuses or pet a tiger at a roadside zoo they are greasing the palms of the people whose greed has led to the problem of homeless and abandoned exotic pets in the first place.
If people continue to buy these “pets” from breeders instead of adopting one of the millions of appropriate pets from a shelter, they will continue to perpetuate the problem. I don’t believe the general public would condone or celebrate the captive, exploited existence of so many of these animals – they just don’t realize how they contribute.
If, every day, those of us who speak for the animals touch one person and ask them to touch another and so on, be it in conversation or through Facebook or in other creative ways, we can make a difference.
Just as our children now know that they can’t throw their garbage out the window, I trust that one day their children would not think of not spaying or neutering their pets or going to a circus or petting a baby tiger at the mall or getting a serval as a pet.
Just like the Native American man who shed a tear for the environment, I like to believe that every tear we shed today will spare a tear for future generations. I know that we can’t rescue our way out of the exotic animal pet trade. But we can educate our way out. As we begin 2013, please join us in continuing to spread the No More Wild Pets message.
Together, we can change the future!
Holly Henry – The Wildcat Sanctuary, Communications Manager
Posted on December 31, 2012
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The AVMA has strengthened its opposition to declawing captive exotic and other wild indigenous cats for nonmedical reasons by condemning the practice.
A cheetah’s whiskers are significantly less developed than those of other cats, including the nocturnal big cats such as lions and leopards. A cheetah depends far more on sight than on other tactile signals.
I’m a baby ocelot (Leopardus pardalis). I just wait to recover my health and to find my new home in Senda verde ((www.sendaverde.com.) They told me I need a special cage, food, medicine and exclusive care. Please, would you
I’m very little, I’m the size of a domestic cat. They have taken me away from my mom and my brothers. I hope they haven’t killed them all while they defended me.
I traveled a lot in the dark and I was really afraid! I went to an ugly place where some human were yelling and exchanging things. They also exchanged me for some little papers.
They took me to a building… I was alone! I was afraid! And my mom wasn’t there! They feed me with things I wasn’t supposed to eat, but I was really hungry. I got a stomachache because of that. I miss my mom’s delicious milk. But my nightmare didn’t finish there for me. Everyday I was hurt! These humans didn’t get tired and even thought up some new awful things to hurt my little body. They pull out my claws and cut out my whiskers, my eyebrows too… all my sensor hairs!!!
One afternoon, I heard some voices. I knew they were looking for me. I run to see and they also looked at me!! I heard they were POFOMA and Animales SOS people. I didn’t understand anything about the discussions, but they rescued me from that horrible place. I’m so thankful!!!
Now I’m in some other place. I didn’t find my mommy here, but they cleaned up my little ears, and now I can hear better. My food is still kind of different from the one my mom used to gave me, but I like it and I eat it a lot. After a week I’m recovering my mood and I’m cleaning myself again. I want to play like other kitties, but I trip over the thing I find on my way, it’s really difficult to jump without my whiskers and claws. I really feel like a handicap. I listen they say :”poor little creature, how could they hurt him like that? After you suffered such thing, why are you so tender and obedient?” They also say “It’s so cute! It’s a beautiful cat!”.
Now, during the nights, I sleep on a bed sucking the fingers of the person who’s taking care of me. During the mornings I listen them say that every night I shed tears… do you know what I see in my dreams?
Some WCS doctors visited me and examined me; they took some blood and other fluids from my body. They explained it was to know what diseases the other people and animals infected me since my capture. And this will also help me to heal.
I know I would never be able to go back with my family. I dream about the forest, the wind, also about the rain. Here they talk about a wonderful place where they take care and love wild animals as helpless as me. I want to go to Senda Verde (www.sendaverde.com ) and have my new home. I’m a wild kitty and I need your help! More than 300 wild animals found a good life and they also wait for you to open your heart.
I need a special cage (it costs about 2000 $us), why? Because we, cats, depend on our whiskers and sensor hair to move, any damage to them could make we couldn’t measure distances, or we could crush with things. A cat without sensor hair could hurt his eyes while walking in the weeds, because he couldn’t receive the sign to close them at time. They also could get trapped in narrow places, which not only could be dangerous, but also a life or dead matter in case an enemy is chasing them.
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They told me that in Law 1333 (Environment Law) Art. 111 bans the possession of wild animals and penalize the commercialization of those creatures. Supreme Decrees Nº 22641 (Permanent general ban decree) and Nº 25458 (Modified ban), are the ones who talk about wild fauna trade.
Now you know about my story and you know that the man who kidnapped me should be in jail.
Please, everybody must obey the law, so that all of us could live with our parents and brothers. You should think that a wild animal NEVER offers his cubs for adoption. For every wild animal that comes to the illegal market, 9 of the same specie have died.
I, the ocelot, I’m gonna heal and grow up. I hope my claws grow back, not just to defend myself, I want to climb trees, the same as my whiskers and eyelashes to know where I’m stepping, where I walk and jump and not hurting myself with objects that are around me. They don’t defeated me! I’ll grow up to be big, cute and a strong male ocelot! Mommy, you’ll be proud of me!!!
And… by the way… I’M NOT A PET!
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They told me that in Law 1333 (Environment Law) Art. 111 bans the possession of wild animals and penalize the commercialization of those creatures. Supreme Decrees Nº 22641 (Permanent general ban decree) and Nº 25458 (Modified ban), are the ones who talk about wild fauna trade.
Now you know about my story and you know that the man who kidnapped me should be in jail.
Please, everybody must obey the law, so that all of us could live with our parents and brothers. You should think that a wild animal NEVER offers his cubs for adoption. For every wild animal that comes to the illegal market, 9 of the same specie have died.
I, the ocelot, I’m gonna heal and grow up. I hope my claws grow back, not just to defend myself, I want to climb trees, the same as my whiskers and eyelashes to know where I’m stepping, where I walk and jump and not hurting myself with objects that are around me. They don’t defeated me! I’ll grow up to be big, cute and a strong male ocelot! Mommy, you’ll be proud of me!!! And… by the way… I’M NOT A PET!” width=”403″ height=”403″ />
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