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Canada Lynx at Big Cat RescueSHATIA Female Canada Lynx

DOB 5/17/93-4/14/09

Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 6/26/93

Shatia came to Big Cat Rescue 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!

We tried introducing them back together but they didn't get along and we had to separate them again.  They seem to like each other best as neighbors rather than room mates.

Shatia died in her sleep at the age of 16. 

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