Here's a good link to Joette Snyders blog. She'll tell you all about the people trying to help our Wild Cats. Here is one of here latest works entitled: Watching
http://drawing-wild-things.joettesgallery.com/drawing/
It's amazing to think of these huge cats roaming the countryside. When you get over the fear and realize that WE are at the top of the food chain they are all the more awesome. Am I crazy? I wouldn't seek them out, but I have seen an adult cross the river in front of our ranch, and one time I had a rare siting of a youngster as it left its investigation of our home... and last winter the biggest paw prints were seen crossing our empty pasture... thankfully the horses were in the barn.
I suspect it's common for the horses to see the big cats as our cluster of old Pinion Pines had one hanging out among its limbs when we first moved in. They live here too, I guess. And here I thought it was only bobcats and coyotes and bunnies... lots and lots of bunnies. They are the featured attraction on the wildlife menu. We raise'em here.
If you want to see a youngster (rare) and watch it grow up... and help out the people raising it you can go to the California Living Museum outside of Bakersfield CA where they just received an abandoned cub named Willow. She is gorgeous... I'm painting her portrait for you!
love,
Chela
Here's a link to CALM : California Living Museum Home Page
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www.calmzoo.org/