Gotta admit I was a tad nervous

Is your hand still attached?!

Would love to get that close

J evro wrote:

Gotta admit I was a tad nervous

It's ok, -she loves children,
But she couldn't eat a whole one, today

I had my 'safety vest' and flip flops on to protect me,

That's awesome power contained right there, I walked alongside another one with my hand on it's back and you could feel the power and muscle so god knows what they're like when they're fighting etc ?

Couple of years back I went 'Walking with Wolves' at the Wolf Conservancy not far from Reading.
Interesting day walking out with a Wolf which was chained to TWO handlers!!

Have also visited the Big Cat conservancy near to Stevenage, getting close to Jaguars and Snow Leopards, but not handling them though!

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Looks interesting , we live quite near a zoo and you can walk outside of it and your only separated from their wolf pack by a chain link fence , some times they completely ignore you but on a few occasions a couple take an interest and start staring and stalking you the others seem to sense it and join in and they always send a scout around the trees and it pops up in front of you .......although they can't get out at you it's still very unnerving and my dog hated it

KurtVerbose wrote:

J evro wrote:

Gotta admit I was a tad nervous

Ya' big pussy!

johnboyairey wrote:

It's ok, -she loves children,
But she couldn't eat a whole one, today

Funniest bit was when we fed them chicken breasts on a stick , they swiped it off with a claw and threw it down their necks like it was a tablet


And the keeper had these all in a 'builders belt' around his waist the whole time ( I did mentally give him a wide berth from the off )

I was more nervous in with four of these as they reminded me more of a normal cat and they were loose / running about all over the place between your legs and the likes and they were all sharp teeth and claws


Another great experience to be in with them but I had to leave early and leave the mrs in with them while I offered to take some photos of her

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These were from the Photo Day at the Big Cat Conservancy out near Stevenage. The Jaguar has a trick of posing for photos then launching himself at the sides of the cage! You don't need any Ex-Lax when that happens!!

The people that run the place (all their cats are from private collections / zoos ) had to remove the signeage from the main road because people thought they rescued cats and were dumping domestica cats over the fence, much to the joy of the Snow Leopards and Jaguars!!


This is the web site

http://www.photography4bigcats.co.uk/

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