After Horror in Bandon, Four Rescued Big Cats Are Finally Learning What It Means to Feel Safe

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Louie paced endlessly. Nasha was found soaked in urine in a dark den. Lyla desperately wanted to get away. Bently had been declawed and lived with severe arthritis. More than a year after their rescue from Oregon’s West Coast Game Park Safari, their lives look almost unrecognizable.

There’s something remarkable about a jaguar doing absolutely nothing.

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Louie might be stretched out in the grass or sitting quietly beneath the Minnesota sky. He may notice a caretaker nearby and decide he doesn’t particularly care.

And that, perhaps more than anything else, is the point.

Louie before his rescue. The Wildcat Sanctuary

Because when Tammy Thies first saw

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