The Big Cat Rescue

After decades of wanting to go to the Big Cat Rescue -I finally got around to doing it. Okay, so it hasn’t really been decades of passionately wanting to see these magnificent felines, but knowing that one of Tampa’s finer animal attractions was only a stones throw away from my home and I hadn’t been there was making me feel awfully awful. To be honest I’m not close to being a cat lover. I’d prefer a beautiful Rhodesian ridgeback in my arms over a purring kitty rubbing against my calf, but I love to learn and there was much to soak in as our guide Denny took the large Saturday morning tour group around the sanctuary grounds. I could tell he’d been volunteering with the Big Cat Rescue for quite sometime as he told each big cat’s story as if they were one of his grandchildren. Except -most of these cats come from an abused or sad past. There were a few from the circus and many who were once cool luxury pets for careless owners who later learned the difficulty in keeping a large cat in the home. I can’t tell them all the way Denny did, but I managed to catch a few shots of the animal’s very different personalities as I walked through. Here are only a few.