You’re in Texas… Don’t the big cats get awfully hot in summer?
It does get hot in Texas, but all the big cats have shade enclosures and fans that come on automatically when the thermometer hits 90F. The tigers, in particular, enjoy water (in the wild, tigers regularly like to go swimming) so we add large water-filled troughs for them to splash in whenever they want to. The tigers also have cool-water misters in their pens for additional comfort. One of the items on our “Dream List” is the construction of “Tiger River”. This would be an artificial river that runs through all the tiger enclosures. The estimated cost to construct “Tiger River” is about $50,000, so we’re hoping to find a corporate sponsor for the project. (If you can help us with this, please don’t hesitate to contact us!) Do you have a favorite tiger, lion, or cougar? It’s hard for us to pick “a favorite”! Each of the PrideRock big cats has their own distinct personality and quirks. For example, lions are very social big cats, and like to form family groups with others, even if those
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- We want to implement Feline-ality but we have so many cats, with more coming in all the time, that we don’t know how we can assess them all. How should we proceed?
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