{"id":17554,"date":"2013-01-07T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T16:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17554"},"modified":"2013-01-07T12:02:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T16:02:17","slug":"monday-cat-blogging-369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17554","title":{"rendered":"Monday cat blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, we went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolinatigerrescue.org\/\">Carolina Tiger Rescue<\/a>. Very cool. It's a place where wild cats (that is: big cats and small cats, but not house cats) can live out their days, after being rescued from people who try to keep them as pets, or from being abused in show biz, or whatever. They have cats of all sizes: from speedy little ocelots and servals, to giant tigers and lions. It's not a zoo, but they do tours to help support their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The facility is two miles (as the swarms of turkey vultures who compete for scraps from the tigers fly) from our house. So, I'm happy the many fences are tall and extend underground and are anchored in concrete - and that the small, climbing cats have fences on top of their enclosures.<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130107-110728.jpg\" alt=\"20130107-110601.jpg\"\/><br \/>\niPhone\n<\/p>\n<p>This guy, named 'Nitro', is blind. He knows his way around his enclosure well enough, though. And he seems to love the tour guides.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers and lions are <em>enormous<\/em>. 600-700 lbs is average for an adult tiger. But a cougar is what I would be most afraid to meet in a dark alley. They just look mean, and agile, and hungry. <\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption><a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130107-110044.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130107-110044.jpg\" alt=\"20130107-110044.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\niPhone\n<\/p>\n<p>The center will accept roadkill donations, as long as its fresh. They also accept Christmas tree donations, because tigers like to play with Christmas trees the same way house cats like to play with clean laundry.<\/p>\n<p>About the only wild cat I have to worry about in NC is the bobcat. I wouldn't welcome a <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/01\/07\/16395401-it-gave-me-a-bear-hug-bobcat-attacks-massachusetts-family?lite\">bobcat attack<\/a>, either. But I'd take one over a cougar, if forced to make the choice.<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/bobcat.jpg\"><br \/>\nNikon D100, 75-240mm. NC Zoo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, we went to the Carolina Tiger Rescue. Very cool. It's a place where wild cats (that is: big cats and small cats, but not house cats) can live out their days, after being rescued from people who try to keep them as pets, or from being abused in show biz, or whatever. They have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}