My Nonprofit Reviews

On the recommendation of friends, we visited this sanctuary of exotic cats and bears on a nice sunny day in February and enjoyed the short drive out there from Ft. Worth to see it. This place is indeed a sanctuary for the wild animals. Even though they are safely contained in mostly individual enclosures, they have alot of room in them with pools, toys and natural habitat to live in. They are not "on display" unless they want to be, as the animals have areas to hide in if they prefer, and even some of the homes of the wildcats were avoided by our group to prevent any agitation of those sensitive animals who don't like visitors. The animals we saw all looked healthy and relaxed.

Our tour guide was an intern who works around the sanctuary and she was an excellent teacher for our group. In the two hours we walked around with her, she told us many things about each of the animals...their names, the history of each one, their personality traits, and how they respond to their caretakers and surroundings. She also showed us the nutrition center for the animals and how/where they get the foods and prepare it specifically for the nutritional and taste preferences of each animal.

The gift shop and the grounds/areas of the sanctuary are nice and clean. All the people working there seem gentle and happy around the animals. And for us on the tour it was a nice way to spend a morning enjoying the sanctuary for ourselves along with some beautiful animals in their protective homes.

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