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Wildlife Rescue Featured in Cat Fancy Magazine
 Wildlife
Rescue Featured in Cat Fancy Magazine
by Lynn Cuny, Founder & Executive Director
For those of you who are particularly fond
of felines, you will be interested to read the "Foster
Focus" story in the April edition of Cat Fancy
magazine, which hits the newsstands in March. This feature
is, as you can see by its name, usually about foster care
that is provided for domesticated cats, but the writer wanted
to extend the scope of both the publication and her column
by telling the story of Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation
(WRR) and some of the bobcats whom we have rescued.
We are hoping that this article will do much
to not only tell the many readers of this publication about
the life-saving work carried out by WRR but, equally important,
about the plight of this beautiful and misunderstood cat.
Many of the bobcats rescued by WRR would have been just fine
if their mothers had not been hunted and killed; still others
would have been allowed their rightful place in the wild but
for the greed and ignorance of certain individuals who wanted
to again, kill their mothers, so the babies could be sold
into the so-called "pet" trade. All too often for
these cats, by the time they are brought to us, they have
been declawed and defanged and consequently will never be
able to return to the wild and never enjoy a life of freedom.
Fortunately, most the of the bobcats we take
in can indeed go back to the wild and live as they wish and
as nature intended. This striking, spotted cat receives absolutely
no protection in the state of Texas and is often hunted for
his fur. WRR has rescued bobcats from as nearby as Austin
and as far away as California and Oklahoma. The first permanent
resident at WRR over 30 years ago was a bobcat kitten who
was liberated from a "pet" shop where she had been
declawed with a pair of pliers and left sitting in an aquarium
in a pool of her own blood. To this day the logo for Wildlife
Rescue & Rehabilitation is understandably a bobcat.
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