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Caracal at Big Cat RescueCACHANGA Male Caracal

DOB 12/1/94

Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 2/16/96


Cachanga was imported from Africa in February, 1995. His parents were being used in an Educational program. In 1995 we believed the "new" bloodlines were a valuable acquisition to help strengthen pedigrees in the U.S. When we first began we only had the guidance of those who bred and sold cats and believed that what they said was true.  We started breeding some cats under the misguided notion that this was a way to “preserve the species.”  A few of our cats were purchased with this in mind, although invariably we were also giving them a home far better than what they were destined for if we did not purchase them.  I had not then figured out what seems so obvious to me today, that breeding for life in a cage an animal that was meant to roam free was inherently cruel, and that most of the “homes” these animals would end up in were places where they would live in unsuitable conditions. Cachanga has since been neutered to insure no accidental births.