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Author: jagdale35

Animal Organizations

All Animal Organizations are NOT the Same 

Wildlife rehabilitation facilities provide care to injured, sick or orphaned animals with the goal of being able to return them to their natural habitat. Some animals are humanly euthanized if they are suffering and medical care would be fruitless. Other animals may recover but are still unable to survive in the wild and then live their life out at the rehab center or an education facility.

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General Cat Facts

White Tigers and Novelty

Stunning. Beautiful. The stuff of fantasies and fairy tales. These are all valid descriptions of the magical white tiger. There is no doubt that these impressive snowy creatures with ice-blue eyes arrest the attention of countless admirers. Their charm is such that few people ever question just what a white tiger really is.

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General Cat Facts

Keeping a Wild Cat as a Pet

In some U.S. states exotic cats can be obtained through private breeders and dealers. In others the private ownership of cats is strictly regulated and is illegal without a license. As an example, residents of California must have two years of full-time experience working with wild cats at a licensed facility before they can apply for a license of their own. If an unlicensed person is caught with an exotic cat it will be confiscated by the State Fish and Game Department. Given that there are few rescue facilities with enough cage space to deal with a confiscated wild cat,

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Cat Hybrids

Ligers, Tigons, and Bengal Cats, Oh My! 

Hybrids between wild and domestic cats, as we see in the now popular ‘bengal cat’ (a cross between a domestic cat and the tiny Asian leopard cat*) has been described as an attempt by pet owners to own something which is wild looking without being wild. It is also described as a chance to breed an exotic looking pet in captivity without risking the depletion of wild populations.

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Cat Controversy

Catablog #02 – Cat Controversy

Many people, from all walks of life, take an interest in wild cats. Where there are people, there are opinions. These spark debates on a wide range of subjects, from the problems of captive husbandry to private ownership. Some of the arguments are logical and some based on gut instinct and personal feeling. Under the circumstances it is almost impossible to reach a consensus.
The purpose of this page is to develop a deeper understanding of some of the issues. The following essays cover a few ‘hot topics’. They are written in the knowledge that not everyone will agree

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General Cat Facts

CataBlog #01 – First blog, Let’s get it correct

I have been working with cats for almost 25 years now and the one thing I can always count on is that the facts about cats we thought to be true in the past may change in the future. I can give a big list of facts, or maybe I should call them ideas that we thought were true but they ended up being our best guess at the time. Here are a few examples:

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