Big Cat Rescue's Canadian Lynx
Most of our Canadian Lynx were rescues from fur farms. The deal Our Founders made with the three fur farms we discovered in the U.S. was that we would pay top dollar for every cat and kitten they had as long as the fur farmer would agree to never buy and breed cats again for slaughter. It came at a time that the public outcry was against the fur industry. Many of these animals were purchased at auctions where the uncaring owners were dumping the cats with no concern about their welfare. There is much controversy over whether we did the right thing by paying the ransom for these cats. We still accept many unwanted cats each year, but do not pay for them and typically require that their owner surrender their license, in an attempt to keep people from just trading in their cats each year for a newer, cuter model.
Shatia
Female Canadian Lynx
Date of Birth: 5/17/93
Shatia came to Big Cat Rescue on 6/26/93 from a game farm in Ohio. She has Cardio-Myopathy, a heart condition, so she will never be as big and beautiful as the other Canadians, but she has a lovely disposition. Although declawed on all four paws, she can climb any tree by leaping up to the first branch and then climbing like a monkey, wrapping her oversized paws around each branch. She was raised in the house and has the best house manners of any exotic we've known, but she was moved to a pen with two other tame Canadian Lynxes when she came into her first heat in 1995 and began, as they all do, to spray bucket loads of urine on everything. She now lives in a huge pen next to Dances With Wolves. The pen has a magnificent old tree as its centerpiece!
Dances
With Wolves
Female Canadian Lynx
Date of Birth: 7/16/91
Dances With Wolves came to live at Big Cat Rescue on 1/23/93. She had been bottle raised and sold to someone who expected her to bond with him. His cats do commercials and ads and she was not inclined to do either. Living on Easy Street now, she can do what comes natural to her. Dances With Wolves lives next to Shatia and is much more inclined to pose for photographers as long as they don't come too near. Dances with Wolves is learning the medicine of the Dog. Dogs are fiercely loyal and will attack their adversaries with confidence. Dances with Wolves understands that these enemies are thought forms in her own mind that tell her she is not worthy of loyalty. She asks you to look at your own patterns and ask yourself if you pass on rumors or if you refuse to speak up for those who are being attacked? This is characteristic of the fear of not belonging to the pack. Dances with Wolves urges you to reclaim the power of loyalty to self and become your own best friend so that you can be a loyal friend to others.
Read the latest report from the wild HERE.
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