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Judi Lynn

(160,645 posts) Wed Aug 26, 2015, 04:40 PM Aug 2015

Mexico airlifts big cats, coyote to US wildlife sanctuary

Mexico airlifts big cats, coyote to US wildlife sanctuary

The Associated Press
Posted: 08/26/2015 12:34:25 PM MDT | Updated: 93 min. ago

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican environmental authorities loaded eight lions, two lynxes, a puma and a coyote aboard two military planes for a trip to a Colorado wildlife sanctuary on Wednesday, after the animals were found mistreated or abandoned.

The flight aboard two Mexican Navy transport aircraft was the second instalment in an airlift that will eventually take about two dozen animals to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado.

Biologist Ignacio Millan said it was the first time Mexico's Navy had participated in the animal relocation effort.

Millan said the lions, lynxes and puma had been taken from private homes, zoos or circuses where they were often mistreated.

More:
http://www.dailycamera.com/state-west-news/ci_28706607/mexico-airlifts-big-cats-coyote-us-wildlife-sanctuary

LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141189434

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Mexico airlifts big cats, coyote to US wildlife sanctuary (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2015 OP

Oh no !! Mexico sending us their worse animals SummerSnow Aug 2015 #1

Does the Donald know about this? packman Aug 2015 #2

The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado is enormous. Judi Lynn Aug 2015 #3

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

1. Oh no !! Mexico sending us their worse animals

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Aug 26, 2015, 04:45 PM

Aug 2015

packman

(16,296 posts)

2. Does the Donald know about this?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Aug 26, 2015, 04:50 PM

Aug 2015

Illegals with claws .

Good cooperation between Mexico and US - Will they be released in the US after recovery?

Judi Lynn

(160,645 posts)

3. The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado is enormous.

Reply to packman (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 27, 2015, 06:24 AM

Aug 2015

Here are images of the place from google images:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1182&bih=595&q=Wild+Animal+Sanctuary+in+Keenesburg%2C+Colorado&oq=Wild+Animal+Sanctuary+in+Keenesburg%2C+Colorado&gs_l=img.12..0i24.675.675.0.2220.1.1.0.0.0.0.165.165.0j1.1.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.1.163._veI47mUTZE

Other animals in similar circumstances from all over the Western Hemisphere have been moved there after being rescued from circuses, etc., and it is expected they will live out their days in a new, free environment after so much suffering at the hands of cruel people.

Already they sent beautiful, but badly abused lions from a Bolivian circus, who were delirious with joy in their new homes.

I may be wrong, but I believe an organization with Bob Barker created this haven for them years ago, and they are safe there. Hope it will be permanent. It's really needed.

(I imagine these aliens with claws would make a straight line right for that thing on Trump's head!)

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