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JP Morgan Chase October 3, 2004 See Photos
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The great people at JP Morgan Chase helped Big Cat Rescue in a big way today! They donated much needed supplies, such as shovels, rakes, axes, limb loppers and gloves and then pitched in to use them! Don Bush, an engineer who has donated his time to helping us solve drainage problems, was kind enough to draft the plans for the flood alleviation and then instead of supervising, jumped right in to dig. In the photos you can see Nicole Rodriguez, Trevor Chin, John Mcloughlin, Raymond Papineau, Lisa Fursanic, Brian Andress, Sherry O'Donnell, Holly Alterson, Margaret Garrett, Kris Chapman, Marilyn Gardner and Don Bush digging ditches to drain flood waters away from the cats. This is especially important to the health of the cats because these lands used to be cow pastures. The criptosporidium that can lay dormant for more than 20 years surfaces in the mud caused by heavy rain. The cats lick their paws and become infected. Keeping the cat-a-tats dry is critical to their health. After four hurricanes in six weeks, the ditches we had were just not sufficient. Thanks to the folks of JP Morgan Chase giving up their Sunday we now can better drain a large portion of the area.
An ongoing issue is cage maintenance. With more than 120 cages we always have several that are in need of repainting. Once the ditches were dug everyone jumped in and started painting. Afterwards when Howie gave the exhausted volunteers a tour he commented that one of the Ocelots just didn't know what to say because she had never seen people with spots before. The White Serval below impressed all of us by catching a snake, but Operations Manager Scott and Intern Steve quickly came and freed the snake. Fortunately, the snake was not poisonous and did not appear any worse off for having been paraded by Tonga all over the place.
Thanks again and a big Woo Hoo from the cats for all of your team's hard work.
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