Please write to use our Contact form) if you are interested in supporting our organisation or if you like to (symbolically) adopt one of the resident cats at our sanctuary.Today we are going to explore these categories – from wildcats, tabby, feral cats, to domestic cats to understand the nuances between the groups and better understand the evolutionary process of domestication that takes place when certain species come into close proximity to Homo sapiens over generations. If you support Wild Cats World – you support all the cats at our sanctuary, wild or tame, big or small. On these photos you can see some of the cats, with all different colour variations. All of course get daily food, water, love and when necessary medical treatment. The biggest group living in our yard, the African wildcats are homed separately on our farm and some loved to be promoted to domestic cats. Lots of them found a wonderful home on our property. Then we also have the feral/wildcat program – giving home to 30 feral and (semi) African wildcats, and helping farmers to capture them in order to fix and vaccinate them. Paypal Stichting Wild Cats World ABN AMRO BankĪt our sanctuary it is not just heaven for the bigger and smaller wildcats such as leopards, cheetahs or servals/caracals… also the smaller African wildcat (pure blood) and Black-footed cats (currently homed at a separate place) are having a safe place at our sanctuary. On this page we will publish the full story and all up-dates. Thanks to Mariette at Zebula and foremost the guest who picked him up and by doing so was the initial rescue of this poor fellow.Ī special donation page on Facebook will be created soon and we appeal to your generosity to support us to provide the best of (medical) care for this civet and all animals/cats like him. When he can leave the vet again, not sure when that will be, we will give proper care until he is well enough to be released again. He tried to stand a few times which is good, but the bad concussion gave too much problems still. The vet gave anti inflammatory and put him on a drip. It was still in shock of course, very cold and wet. X-rays were done and other tests, to find out this was a “lucky one”, to have nothing broken, and no vital organs damaged. It was difficult to see what chance the civet cat still had to survive, and to see what really was wrong, so we had the vet take a look. So we quickly rushed there to see how we could help. The ears were twitching a bit but that was all the movement left in the poor civet. Warning, photo’s of culled animals below!Įarly Saturday morning (26/3/22) we were contacted by a ranger at Zebula Game Reserve about a civet cat that had been hit by a car and found on the road by a visitor. Large feral cat side by side with Kangaroo.It should be all the more reason to help find a better resolution to the feral cat issue in Australia such as this one I have brought forth. With this warning, please do not blame me for the discomfort you may feel seeing dead cats. WARNING: PLEASE BE AWARE that some images are graphic as they contain culled cats. It would certainly thrill many people to have the possibility of owning an apex predator as a pet and I believe it provides an alternative humane way of curbing the feral cat problem in Australia to outright poisoning or shooting like this.īelow are pictures of large wild feral cats that were located in the Australian outback, far from any settlement. Therefore removing them from the wilderness and exported to foreign families. The increased demand and potential media attention will bring light to the situation. These are not the average free-roaming moggy in the outskirts of Perth that ventures into nearby wildlife areas to wreak havoc. Please bear in mind again that I am only referring to the successive generations of feral cats living in Australia’s remote outback since the 1700s-1800s. The establishment of these large naturally evolved cats as a unique breed may bring awareness to them and create a demand for these new exotic cats. Similar to the natural development of the Maine Coon and Sokoke cats or the Cimarrón Uruguayo dog breed.įeral cats that have been apex predators in large swathes of land for generations should be captured, tested and seen if segments of these feral cat populations have developed into new landraces of cats. I believe that studies should be done on the reason behind these Felids growing to immense sizes, among other adaptations, to the various environments they have thrived in. They were originally cats that had come along on ships from Europe. As a result of a lack of competition over hundreds of years, these wild feral cats have adapted to the many landscapes where they have been introduced.
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