Reply With QuoteWe adopted "Hope" a few years ago. She is the Black Jaguar.
I've never seen anything about this place on here and since its winter time and boring I thought this might be of interest.
About 3 years ago we took the G.D. (3-4 yrs old) to this place and it was pretty awesome. It is NOT A ZOO but instead a place that provides safe haven for abused animals such as Elvis, a huge maneless male lion, he got that way because of some idiot entertainer who wanted a lion, they will tell you the sad storyThere are many species of anything imaginable, tigers, cougars, wolves, panthers, birds, lizards etc. The place survives on donations and a small entrance fee The name is ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
"Keepers of the Wild" located on historic Route 66 (Hwy 93 I think) in Valentine Az. about 29 mi north of Kingman at mile marker 87. Its in the middle of nowhere! 928-769-1800 www.keepersofthewild.org. A very worth while tripHeres a few pic's for you.... NSF
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We adopted "Hope" a few years ago. She is the Black Jaguar.
We adopted "Hope" a few years ago. She is the Black Jaguar.
Beautiful animal and nice to see them so close up. Word of note: I noticed that the big cats seemed to always have their eye on the G.D. so the guide said that's about the size they like for food:jawdrop: I havent seen the new digs for them as they were just building it so the animals would have more room to roam.
Cool, even though I hate to see cats or any animal caged up like that. In late September I was bow hunting and had a momma bobcat and 3 of her kittens come in and bed down for a nap about 30 yards from me. I watched them playing and napping around for about 30 minutes. It was cool as shit.
The coyotes are really putting the pressure on the bobcats competing for food. I see fewer and fewer bobcats each year.
Beautiful animal and nice to see them so close up. Word of note: I noticed that the big cats seemed to always have their eye on the G.D. so the guide said that's about the size they like for food:jawdrop: I havent seen the new digs for them as they were just building it so the animals would have more room to roam.
yup, Anne Hjelle got attaked at whitting ranch and she is pretty small. And Mark Reynolds was bending down fixing his bike chain when he got attacked at the same place. They found him eaten after they went down to rescue Anne.
Cool, even though I hate to see cats or any animal caged up like that. In late September I was bow hunting and had a momma bobcat and 3 of her kittens come in and bed down for a nap about 30 yards from me. I watched them playing and napping around for about 30 minutes. It was cool as shit.
The coyotes are really putting the pressure on the bobcats competing for food. I see fewer and fewer bobcats each year.
That would have been really cool to see. Hey, most of our cats are not caged either.
Wanna go on a night mountain bike ride? lol these pics were taken with cameras hooked up to motion sensors.
Be carefull if you are hiking in So Cal. Cats are displaced after the fires.
Big daddy
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momma and her cubs (thought they died in the fires but have been seen lately)
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Bobcats are really cool. There is one at Chino Hills that comes right up to you.
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foxy
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'yote
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I bet this eagle would like to snatch Parris Hiltons lil purse dog if given the chance. lol
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another puddy cat
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Looking to woff down this nice doe
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Those are some great pics. I was bear hunting in Eastern Washington about 7 or 8 years ago and the dogs struck a big cat and after running it around a little valley a few times, it treed. We made it over to the tree and there was this huge male cougar sitting on a limb about 15 feet up the tree. The guys I was hunting with talked about how much fun it was to hunt cougars but that they didn't see that many any more. Dude whipped out his 7 mag and as he was taking aim on the cat. I pushed his gun away. Well they didn't take to well to that but I managed to talk them out of shooting the cat. We put the dogs on a leash and headed back to the truck. Went back to hunt with them a couple of years later and one night while sitting around the campfire they told me that they thought I was crazy for stopping them from shooting that cat that night. But after thinking it over they decided I was right and there might be a chance that all the cougars could be gone one day. They didn't want to see that so they decided they would no longer kill cougars. Those boys were hardcore hound hunters. I was a little surprised that they gave it up. I don't know how long they live but I kinda hope that big tom is still running the Eastern Cascades.
Now I will kill the hell out of yotes. They get no mercy from me.
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