WALK ON THE WILDSIDE Exotic Feline Rescue
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Sherabie The beginning.
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| Sherabie found abandoned in our driveway. |
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| Lost , frightened and ill this little girl now found a safe place. |
| SHERABIE |
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| OUR GUIDE TO OUR FUTURE |
| Sherabie was raised by our domestic. |
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| It was not unusual to find her curled up with a new litter of kittens. |
| Sherabie was maturing and wanted babies of her own |
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| She would steal the babies from the domestics, then spend hours caring for them. |
Sherabie came into our lives when she was around 8 or 10 weeks
old. The first part of her life was spent in the wild being raised by her mother. We found her in our driveway abandoned by
her mother, she was frightened and alone. She could put up a pretty good fight when you picked her up, but she was afraid
and alone.
We brought her into our home, she was alone and ill, we nursed her back
to health and in no time flat she was a part of the family, being raised by our domestic Persian. My domestics took to caring
for her, cleaning and grooming her, giving back to her some feelings of security, and a mother figure. In a very short time
Sherabie had settled in and become part of the family, no longer afraid or alone she was now safe and secure.
As she grew she started having siezures, they became more and more
frequent, she would have to be held down during the siezures to keep her from getting hurt. We took her to an exotic vet,
he ran all kinds of test and did bloodwork on her. He gave us all kinds of medication to give her, well don't ever try to
get a pill down a half grown bobcats throat, it's not going to happen. I did some research and found herbs that would do the
same thing as the drugs. I started feeding her the herbs over her food, she ate it with no problem. I continue this for a some
time, the siezures were happening less and less now. In time they stopped all together, the herbs had worked and she now
had her health back..
| Sherabie grew into a beautiful healthy bobcat. |
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| Sherbaie loved people and other animals. |
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She continued to grow, and bond with the family. For a wild born bobcat she dearly loved people and other
animals, she was a special girl. She could steal your heart when you meet her, she had no fear of strangers that came into
our home.
As she grew the need to nuture others became strong in her. She would lie with the kittens at the side of
the mother cat, this was her mother too while she grew up. They would all curl up and sleep peacefully together.
It wasn't long before she decided she would help raise the kittens. She would remove the kittens from their
mother and take them into the closet in my bedroom, where she had knocked down clothes to make a soft bed for the babies.
There she proceeded to clean and care for them. I would have to hunt them down and return them to mom at feeding time.
| Sherabie, mission accomplished. |
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| Now in possesion of all the babies, it's time to care for them. |
I feel Sherabie was sent to us to pave the way for what was ahead of us. After a few years the call of wild
and the need to have babies of her own, grew strong in her. At night she would call out to the wild ones in the woods, it
was sad to hear the cries, we loved her very much and she was alone with no other bobcat to keep her company.
Then one day it happened the gate to the cage was only open for a second, she leaped from her platform and
catapolted off my shoulders and ran to the woods.We searched for days without success, she was gone. Maybe her mission was
done and it was time to return to the wild.
I know she did not forget us, and one day she proved it. On a drive home from town, not far from our house,
a bobcat came running across a big open field in broad daylight. I saw it out of the corner of my eye, then suddenly
she ran right in front of my car, I slammed on my brakes and jumped out of the car. I called out her name, it was her, she
stopped at the edge of the road and turned around and sat down, I stood there for a while talking to her, she never moved.
She looked at me as if to say, I'm alright now, I'll be okay, you don't have to worry anymore, I'm happy and well.
She has shown herself to us more than once, it's as if she is letting us know she is out there and surviving.
At times I expect to see her across the field with babies at her side, this is what she wanted, and she would be a good mother
to her babies.
We all miss her very much, she had a special place in our hearts and always will. She is the reason we are
here today.
WE MISS YOU SHERABIE, YOU CHANGED OUR LIFE AND GAVE IT NEW MEANING.
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WALK ON THE WILDSIDE EFR
268 POLK 659
MENA, AR. 71953
ph. 479-394-5643
Copyright 2003, 501-c-3 Nonprofit corporation
EIN #32-00791998
Non-profit Documents
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