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If anyone living/visiting LA gets a chance, I highly recommend the tour of "Shambala", Tippi Hedren's (The Birds, Melanie Griffiths mother, etc.) big-cat rescue/preserve. It's not like a zoo, as you can get up close/personal with some of the cats.
Before starting the tour, they advised us not to rest against, or put our fingers through, the chain-link fencing. To demonstrate, a handler put a piece of chicken through the fence of a run containing a panther (black mountain lion) who had a balance issue (he wobbled around like a drunk sailor). This cat, as f-ed up as he was physically, made it from one end of the run to the other (about 30') before you could freakin' blink, and snatched the chicken out of the handlers grip. The handler barely had time to pull his hand back before that thing hit the fence.
After seeing that demonstration, you start wondering what a healthy cat could do. Nonetheless, no-one stuck their fingers through the chain-link the rest of the day.
Last edited by Danny_Ocean; 07-03-2008 at 08:03 PM..
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