| Dusk was settling in; cold and drizzly
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| | was out that the cub was to be left to
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| damp, the kind of cold that just makes
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| | die, the Fish and Game Department decided
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| your bones ache. A single mom was bathing
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| | to pick up the kitten and place him and
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| her toddlers before tucking them into bed
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| | his two siblings, that had come in from
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| for the night. Their bellies were full
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| | the hunter's family, with Mady Rothchild,
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| and their eyelids beginning to feel heavy
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| | a licensed wildlife rehabilitator working
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| as she hurried to dry them so that they
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| | with the Animals In Distress Association.
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| wouldn't chill while she was gone. She
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| | Now they were her problem and to make
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| had to go to work and there was no one
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| | matters worse she was instructed to find
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| she could call on to keep her babies safe
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| | a zoo that would take them or they would
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| while she made a living for the four of
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| | have to be killed because big cats are
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| them.It didn't used to be so bad. The
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| | not allowed to go back to the wild in
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| neighborhood was a safe place when she
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| | Idaho once they have been handled by
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| was born here but now, three kids later,
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| | humans. It might make hunting a dangerous
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| a lot more people had moved in and they
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| | sport if the hunted were not afraid of
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| weren't good neighbors. Some of them were
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| | the hunter.With twenty years experience
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| downright evil and she made a point to
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| | in rescuing wildlife and returning them
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| try and make herself invisible when she
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| | to their rightful home, Mady did not like
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| saw one of them coming.Usually the bad
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| | the alternatives presented to her. She
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| ones were pretty easy to spot. They were
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| | knew the dirty little secrets the zoos
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| bawdy, smelled of alcohol and cigarettes
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| | hid from the public and knew that if
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| and drove noisy trucks with beds full of
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| | these siblings went to a zoo they would
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| howling, chained dogs. As long as she
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| | be used, split up and bred for more
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| kept to the shadows they were usually too
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| | babies who would live out their lives in
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| drunk to notice her. As she quietly sang
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| | prison cells. When they didn't attract a
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| her babies a lullaby she shuddered at the
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| | paying crowd anymore they would be sold
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| thought of what would happen if one of
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| | out the back door to brokers who would
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| these barbarians found her children
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| | sell them at auction to back yard
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| alone.she couldn't think about that; she
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| | breeders and canned hunts.It is legal to
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| had work to do and she had to keep her
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| | kill a cougar in a cage in the U.S. and
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| mind on the job. The family was counting
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| | call it sport hunting. It is the only way
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| on her.When the last of the little ones
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| | most hunters would ever be able to hang a
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| had drifted off to sleep she stepped out
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| | big cat head on their walls and they have
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| into the moonlit chill. She was still
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| | viciously fought to protect their right
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| trying to shake off the awful scenes that
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| | to do so in the name of freedom. They
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| her imagination had just conjured up when
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| | don't get much opposition from the
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| she stepped on a twig, snapping her
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| | public, because in most states the Fish
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| attention into the moment. As she looked
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| | and Game departments are staffed by
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| up she found that she had caught someone
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| | hunters so there is a code of silence
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| else's attention as well. She froze, hope
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| | that is hard to penetrate. The zoos, an
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| against hope that she had not been
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| | industry that proclaims to be the ark of
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| noticed, but he was close enough she
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| | the future, doesn't want to talk about it
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| could see in his eyes that she had made a
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| | either. No one would support a zoo if
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| fatal mistake.Her mind raced as she
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| | they knew what happened to last year's
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| assessed the severity of the situation:
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| | babies and babies are what pay for all of
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| He was big. He towered over her and she
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| | the salaries.Mady went online to see if
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| could smell the beer on his breath. She
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| | there were any alternatives to zoos or
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| didn't have to see the gun pointed at her
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| | death for these little ones. She found
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| to sense his lack of respect for life.
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| | Big Cat Rescue online and played a
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| She knew his kind and had witnessed the
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| | slideshow that contrasted the legacy
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| cavalier way they extinguished lives in
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| | these magnificent animals were born to
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| their lust for blood. They killed the
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| | inherit and the pitiful prisons they are
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| innocent and the unarmed to prove that
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| | confined to when man intervenes. She
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| they were men. He was too close. If she
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| | concluded that there are some things
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| ran he would find the kids. Her love, a
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| | worse than death and sending these cougar
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| mother's love, would not even think of
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| | cubs to a zoo was one of them. But how
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| saving herself and leaving her young ones
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| | could she snuff out the life from these
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| in the hands of such a perverted mind.But
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| | newborns when they had already endured so
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| what could she do? Perhaps she could
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| | much? She called and emailed the
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| bluff her way out of this. She had
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| | sanctuary with her story.Scott Lope is
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| learned enough about this kind of man to
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| | the operations manager for Big Cat Rescue
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| know that they are all cowards at heart.
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| | and knows that providing for the 150 big
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| If she could make herself look fierce
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| | cats at the sanctuary is the primary
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| enough perhaps he would run. If he did,
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| | task. He knows that hundreds of big cats
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| she resolved that home or no home, she
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| | are turned away every year because there
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| would pack up her brood and leave town in
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| | just isn't enough room and not enough
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| the very next instant.With all of the
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| | resources to commit to a lifetime of
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| courage she could muster she raised her
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| | care. He knows that the only way to stop
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| slender, 100 lb frame to look as
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| | the flood of unwanted exotic cats is to
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| commanding as she could and shrieked,
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| | change the laws so that the breeding and
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| with a sound that would make your blood
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| | dealing stops. He knows that every cat
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| run cold, her threats of what she would
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| | who is turned away was a victim and
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| do if he came one step closer.Laughing at
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| | deserving of shelter and he knows that
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| her pathetic attempt to deter him, he
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| | the fate that awaits them outside our
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| fired the gun point blank into her. The
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| | gates will be tragic, so he approaches
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| impact at such close range spun her
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| | the Founder, Carole Baskin and President,
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| around and he fired again, dropping her
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| | Jamie Veronica and asks them to consider
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| dead on the spot. He didn't see a single
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| | the situation.It would appear that
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| mom doing her best to raise a family in a
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| | agreeing to take them would be an easy
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| hostile world.All he saw was what a
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| | choice; they're cute, they're small and
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| trophy her head would be hanging on his
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| | no one wants to be the one to say, "Go
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| wall.Pulling out his knife to sever her
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| | ahead and kill them." But it is never
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| golden haired head from her shattered,
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| | that simple. How do you choose these over
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| bleeding corpse, he barely heard the
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| | any other? When your main goal is to stop
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| mewing through his gleeful stupor.The gun
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| | the flood of cats in the front gate how
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| blasts had awakened her three sleeping
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| | do you divert time and resources to
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| kittens. Their eyes weren't quite open
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| | building them an enclosure fit for three
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| yet, because they were less than two
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| | adult mountain lions? When the plan is to
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| weeks old, and they could barely focus on
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| | stop the breeding and selling of big cats
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| the scene. What a horrible sight to be
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| | so that twenty years from now there is no
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| one of the first that these young
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| | need for a place like Big Cat Rescue, how
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| innocents would ever see! Any right
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| | do you commit to provide lifetime care to
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| thinking person would be appalled to
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| | cats who could live as long as Scratch,
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| consider the horror that these little
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| | our 28 year old cougar?And what about the
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| ones must have been experiencing, but the
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| | quality of life for the kittens? While
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| hunter didn't think anything of it.In
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| | life at Big Cat Rescue would far exceed
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| fact, he was even happier at the thought
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| | the quality of life in any zoo, it is
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| of being able to raid this nest. His
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| | still life in a cage for animals who have
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| Neanderthal, pea sized brain was musing
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| | been selectively bred, through survival
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| over how cool it was going to be to have
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| | of the fittest, for life in the wild.
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| three mountain lions on leashes. He would
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| | They would be paying the ultimate price
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| raise them with the dogs; maybe drown
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| | for this choice and Mady and Carole
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| some of the bitches' puppies so she could
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| | wrestled with this aspect because both of
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| feed his little prizes for him. Then
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| | them wanted what would be best for the
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| wouldn't he be the center of attention?
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| | individual cats and best for the species,
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| Women would probably do anything for him
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| | when these are usually mutually exclusive
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| just to get a chance to pet his new
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| | propositions.During the emailed
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| cougar cubs. He would be the envy of his
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| | conversations between Mady and Carole
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| drinking buddies when he had the biggest,
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| | their lives were continuing down the same
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| baddest pets in town.He would have been
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| | paths as usual. Mady was pulling pets and
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| singing all the way home with his new
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| | wildlife from steel jawed traps and
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| little pets in a bag and their mother's
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| | treating their mangled bodies. Carole was
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| head in the back seat if it weren't for
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| | dealing with a hurricane demolished
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| one of the babies who was crying
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| | collection of 38 cats in Miami , and an
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| hysterically. He pulled over, and in the
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| | owner who had ended up with a collapsed
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| drizzling, icy rain tossed out the
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| | lung from trying to do all the clean up
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| crybaby by the side of the road near a
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| | alone. His cats hadn't eaten in a week,
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| farm house.By the next day he had sobered
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| | all the food was gone, no one knew if he
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| up enough to see that raising two
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| | was going to survive, or if there was
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| mountain lion cubs was not as easy as
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| | power to run a freezers or wells, or if
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| raising a couple of hunting dogs. The
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| | the cats had broken free when the trees
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| babies cried incessantly for their
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| | all crashed down on their cages. .Life as
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| mother. They refused to eat. They were
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| | usual for those left to clean up the
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| sick with grief and fear and wanted no
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| | messes caused by the irresponsible.The
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| part of this man and the lifestyle he had
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| | cubs' fate was decided for them and while
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| envisioned. Being the coward their mother
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| | that isn't the way it should have been,
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| had thought him to be, he had a relative
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| | it was a decision that had to be made for
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| turn the cubs in to the Idaho Fish and
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| | them due to the actions of others. Mady
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| Game Department. He claimed that he had
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| | and Carole believed that if these
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| killed the nursing mother in self defense
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| | adorable, blue eyed orphans could cause
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| and no charges were pressed.Just the
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| | enough people to stop for a minute and
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| night before the officers had gotten a
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| | THINK then perhaps the kittens would have
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| call from a man who found a screaming
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| | chosen this path to save their cousins
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| baby puma on his front porch. When he
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| | from a similar destiny. Their story would
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| asked what he should do for the kitten,
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| | be told and their mother's death would
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| the officers told him to leave it outside
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| | not have been in vain.For the cats,Carole
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| to die. Unwilling to treat any living
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| | Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue
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| creature so heartlessly, the man took the
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| | an Educational Sanctuary home
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| baby in and tried to offer food and
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| | to more than 150 big cats
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| comfort to no avail.To spare the infant's
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| | 12802 Easy Street Tampa, FL 33625
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| life the kindly farmer contacted the
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| | 813.920.4130 fax 885.4457 cell 493.
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| press with the story and once the news
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