Bali Hai Bengals, who are located in Sutton Creek, California, currently have two litters of brown rosetted bengal kittens available which will be ready to go to forever homes in Sepember. Kittens will be TICA registered, vaccinated etc. They are raised indoors and are well socialised. See breeder ad for further details and contact info.
We’d like to welcome BonsaiLeopard as new advertisers on the website. BonasiLeopard are located in Aeugst am Albis, Switzerland, and currently have a litter of 6 brown spotted bengal kittens for sale. Kittens will be TICA registered and ready to go to new homes on 29.09.2008. See breeder listing for further details.
The Netherlands: A Dutch tabby cat has adopted a red panda cub, which was abandoned by its mother at a zoo.
The adult panda, Gladys, rejected two cubs after they were born on 30 June. The Artis zoo in Amsterdam initially kept them both on an incubator, but the zookeeper’s cat had just given birth to four kittens, and allowed the pandas to join the litter. One of the cubs died last week.
Red pandas are a rare species only distantly related to giant pandas. When fully grown, they are not much bigger than a domestic cat.
“The young panda is doing well in the circumstances,” the zoo said in a statement.
“For it to survive, it is very important that it gets enough food and grows. We will see if this is the case over the next few weeks.”
The cub does not have a name yet, but the zoo says that anyone willing to sponsor her will be allowed to name her.
The red panda is an endangered species that lives in Himalayan regions in China, Bhutan, Nepal, India, and Burma.
Serrano Bengals, of Placerville in California, have Silver Rosetted and Brown Rosetted Bengal kittens available. Kittens will be ready to go to forever homes from July 06th onwards and will be TICA registered, wormed and up to date with shots.
Owlsdene Bengals have two male blue eyed snow marble bengal kittens available for sale. They are GCCF registered and are now ready to go to new homes. See breeder ad for further details.
We’d like to welcome Moonmoor Bengals as a new advertiser to the website. Moonmoor are located in Tavistock, Devon in the UK and currently have a litter of brown spotted and blue marble bengal kittens for sale. They will be ready to go to forever homes on th 14th July. Kittens will be GCCF registered, vaccinated, insured etc.
West Bengal: An Indian fisherman whose father was killed by a tiger twenty years ago has survived a similar attack.
The Bengal tiger struck on Tuesday as Fatik Halder was crab fishing in the Sunderbans mangrove forest. For 20 minutes he was embroiled in a life or death battle with the animal, which bit and clawed him repeatedly.
Mr Halder then had to survive a traumatic journey to Calcutta to get treatment injuries to his upper body. As Mr Halder fought the tiger he remembered that his father, Gour, had been killed in a similar attack.
“Around 10 o’clock in the morning, when I jumped into the water in Benifeli forest and threw in the [fishing] net, I suddenly felt a searing pain, I didn’t know, for a couple of seconds, what had hit me.”
Realising that he was under attack from a man-eater, Mr Halder decided to fight back. He thought of his two children and wife, who were at home waiting for him to return. He frantically dug his heels into the mud and levered his fingers under the tiger’s jaws.
“The pain was becoming unbearable. I don’t know how I managed to dodge the blows,” he said.
The animal’s teeth pierced his right shoulder. It tried to wrestle him to the river bed with its paws but the water and mud made it difficult for it to keep its footing and it finally gave up.
Bleeding and traumatised, the injured fisherman then had to survive another ordeal - the 10-hour journey to Calcutta for medical treatment. Fatik’s heroic survival has already passed into local folklore. He now insists that his fishing days are over and that he will be looking for some other job. But perhaps he should consider himself lucky to be nursing his injuries alive. A day before he was attacked another man, Narayan Das, was savaged by a tiger which clawed him in the neck inside the Sunderbans reserve. It happened when Mr Das’ boat became stuck in one of the numerous creeks that criss-cross the mangrove forest and he and other fisherman jumped into the water to push. By the time his friends managed to fend the tiger off using kitchen utensils, sticks and other items, Mr Das was critically injured. He was officially declared dead in the nearest town 100km (62 miles) away. His family will not get any compensation, forestry officials say, because the fishermen were trespassing in the tiger reserve.
A lion cub is being hand-reared by the director of a Cambridgeshire zoo because her mother would not feed her. Zara has been bottle-fed daily by staff at Linton Zoo after her parents struggled to cope with their newborn. She was just 2lb 4oz and would have died without human intervention, but six weeks on she weighs a healthy 10lb. Zara, who lives at Kim Simmons’ home, has also made friends with the family cat Arnie - but it is hoped that ultimately she will be freed in Uganda.
Mrs Simmons said: “We only hand-rear the cubs if it is absolutely necessary, but this was Safina’s (Zara’s mother) first baby and she couldn’t feed her due to her young age and inexperience.”
Mrs Simmons said Zara had become “great friends” with her ginger tom cat Arnie since moving into her home, on the zoo site.
“She’s got an absolutely wonderful personality and is very laid back and affectionate. “Arnie the cat loves having cubs in the house and the two are great friends, but we’ll have to guard him as Zara gets bigger and stronger.”
Zara is the latest addition to a family of five lions’ at family-run Linton Zoo, near Cambridge. Her parents Safina and Zuri and her grandparents Riziki and Karla are all at the zoo which has been operating since 1972.
Safina and Zuri are expecting another litter of cubs in October and Ms Simmons believes their brief experience with Zara will help them to be more able to cope next time.
All lions born at Linton Zoo will be moved to Uganda as part of a joint project between West Midlands Safari Park and Paradise Wildlife Park in Hertfordshire.
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We’d like to extend a warm welcom to Blush Bengals who are advertising on the website with us for the first time. Located in Staffordshire in the UK, Blush Bengals currently have two litters of bengal kittens which were both born on the same day. Available from these litters are brown spotted, silver spotted and blue eyed snow spotted kittens. They will be ready to go to new homes on the 11th August and will be GCCF or TICA registered. More photos and contact details can be found on the listing.
