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At the Carolina Tiger Rescue Center. Just down the road from where we live in NC. They rescue big cats from failed zoos and animal exhibits as well as private owners. Tigers, lions, leopards, mountain lions, servals, caracals, ocelots

littlejohn22:
OMG, that is so amazing, are some of them approachable?
budoviking:
@littlejohn22 The center has a very strict "do not touch" policy.  The only time a cat is actually touched by a staff member is when they are under anesthesia.   A lot of the cats arrive at the center very stressed by (crappy) human interaction. So the goal is to de-stress them and give them a good place to live out their lives.  In one of the lion photos you see the white tube- they are fed through that.  Meat "falls from the sky"  as the staff says. :-)