Wildlife Day

It's a wild one today, as you can see from my photo for this week's Wordless Whiskers Wednesday. That's because we're celebrating Wildlife Day, raising awareness for wild cats and other wildlife, and at the same time highlighting the great work of wildlife sanctuaries and charities helping these endangered animals

As this is a cat blog here are some beautiful and majestic wild cats 🦁🐯🐆

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YOU can help change an animal's life. There are currently 4,825 dangerous wild animals licensed for private keeping in Great Britain. Wildlife should not be held in captivity. Raise the red flag on our website to report your captive wild animal concerns anywhere in the world, including at home. 🚩 @british_airways Holidays

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Climate Change poses new challenges to the ghost of the mountain. . Temperatures are on the rise across the mountains of Central Asia. The Tibetan plateau, home to more than half of the remaining snow leopards, has already gotten 3 degrees warmer in the last 20 years. The changes impact the entire ecosystem: vegetation, water supplies, animals – and they threaten to make up to a third of the snow leopard’s habitat unusable. Our everyday choices and actions are therefore intricately woven with the snow leopard. . #climatechange #snowleopard #centralasia #threats #wildlife #catsofinstagram #wildcats #wildcatsofinstagram #snow #ghostofmountain #cameratrap #climateaction #climate

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YOU can help change an animal's life. There are currently 4,825 dangerous wild animals licensed for private keeping in Great Britain. Wildlife should not be held in captivity. Raise the red flag on our website to report your captive wild animal concerns anywhere in the world, including at home. 🚩 @british_airways Holidays

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Purchased online by a Minnesota man wanting to have a fur farm, Stelter lived in tiny suspended cages in his backyard. No shelter from the elements except a plastic barrel 😢. When his granddaughter got too close and was scratched, the family reached out to us. From where they came to where they are today, it truly makes our hearts sing 🎶❤. THIS is what your donations help make possible 👏 and we thank you. #wildcatsanctuary #sanctuary #wild #tiger #whitetiger #lion #lioness #bobcat #lynx #cats #cat #catsofinstagram #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #photo #photooftheday #picture #pictureoftheday #pictures #animalplanet #WWF #bigcatrescue #jacksongalaxy

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We attended a meeting with Michael Gove this week to discuss banning the import of hunting trophies into the UK. It was quite a heated meeting and you can read an account if it by clicking on our website link in our bio. #lions #banliontrophyhunting #banliontrophyimports

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Sapphire is always curious about her neighbors!

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When it's goodnight for the rest of us... it's Purrfection the Ocelots time to shine! #nocturnal

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Just some photos on what went down in India on #GlobalTigerDay last month 🎉 An estimated 2967 wild tigers are roaming in India alone! This was announced on the day itself. 📷: Cover by @suyashkeshari

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Sunday Selfie #TinyTigers4Tony

My selfie today is in support of Tony, a Siberian-Bengal tiger who has endured more than ten years of misery at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, Louisiana. 

He is living at an isolated gas station parking lot. Can you imagine the stench of fuel and the drone of those diesel engines? This is horrible and so very harmful to an animal with such sensitive hearing and an acute sense of smell. 

The Animal Legal Defense Fund has been fighting for Tony for seven years, and are now waiting for a court decision that could finally grant Tony his freedom to be relocated to a reputable sanctuary, where he can live out the rest of his life getting the veterinary care and environment he deserves. 

Please help by simply printing out the “Free Tony” sign and snapping a photo of your tiny tiger with the sign. Then you can post it on social media with the hashtag #TinyTigers4Tony to help raise awareness of Tony's plight. Come on, Tiny Tigers, let's help our dear furriend!

 

The Sunday Selfies Blog Hop is sponsored by our lovely friends The Cat on My Head 

We are thinking of all our dear furriends and their people in the path of Irma. Please stay safe 💚🐾

Graphic by Zoolatry

Meow Music Monday

Last week we had some merry tunes from the smaller kitties but this week it's the turn of the big cats! 

Hope you enjoy this excellent video and hope you have a great Christmas!

Tiger Tuesday

It's Tiger Tuesday  and Mum's just opened some Whiskas treats for me and I can't wait for her to give me some!

Mum and I realize that most of you who follow this blog live in the US so this probably won't apply to you at all. But I'm sure you'll appreciate this post and find it informative anyway!

At least you can all enjoy this video I hope!


How To Help:

Purchase a special Help Protect A Tiger pack of Whiskas.
New packs supporting WWF are now in stores across the UK! Each pack purchased will help to raise £500,000 for WWF's Tigers Alive initiative, which aims to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022 - the next Chinese Year of the Tiger.

If you buy any of these packs for your cat, be sure to share a photo with the #ProtectATiger hashtag.

Become a Catservationist 
Visit www.whiskas.co.uk/WWF/Catservation and upload your cat's photo to one of the 11 tiger territory maps. For every cat photo that is added, Whiskas will donate £1 to WWF's Tiger's Alive Initiative. Don't forget to share your picture once it's uploaded to help spread the word and encourage lots of other kitties to join the Catservation cause!

Text to Donate 
You can donate £1 to WWF simply by texting TIGER to 70123. More information is here: http://bit.ly/TextWWF

Adopt A Wild Tiger
For a small monthly donation you can adopt Kamrita, one of 120 Bengal tigers left in Nepal. https://support.wwf.org.uk/whiskas-tiger/?pc=ANC003001


Disclaimer: Mum and I are in no way affiliated with the companies mentioned in this post.

Tiger Tuesday - Sumatran Tiger

Mum always calls me her "little tiger" and she loves all cats, big and small, so when we were approached by Whiskas.co.uk to help in their “Help Protect A Tiger”campaign how could we refuse?

Today is the first Tiger Tuesday of the campaign, in which each week Whiskas and the WWF shine a light on one of the endangered tiger subspecies to help raise awareness around the plight of tigers in the wild. 

So today on this first Tiger Tuesday we are showing our support for the endangered Sumatran tiger. 

The Sumatran tiger is the last surviving tiger subspecies in Indonesia and the smallest of the 6 tiger subspecies: the other two native tiger subspecies, the Bali and Javan, became extinct in the 1940s and 1970s respectively. 

With less than 400 individuals holding on for survival in the few remaining patches of forests on the island of Sumatra, they are still under immediate threat from poaching and habitat loss.

From 1998-2002 at least 51 Sumatran tigers per year were killed, with 76% for the illegal wildlife trade and 15% due to human-tiger conflict. (Source: Shepherd and Magnus 2004 IUCN RedList)

At least 66 Sumatran tigers – one seventh of the surviving population – were killed in one year between 1998 and 1999. (Source: Nowell (2000) Far from a Cure: The Tiger Trade Revisited TRAFFIC)

The new Whiskas “Help Protect A Tiger” TV advert features two Sumatran tiger cubs, called Argo and Dhjala. They were born in February this year and were 2 and a half months old when the advert was filmed. 

You can view the Whiskas “Help Protect A Tiger” TV advert here: 

Argo and Dhjala currently live at Champrépus Zoo in France with their mother, Chandra, and you can read more about them on the zoo website: 

Other ways you can help:

Purchase a special Help Protect A Tiger pack of Whiskas

New packs supporting WWF are now in stores across the UK! Each pack purchased will help to raise £500,000 for WWF's Tigers Alive initiative, which aims to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022 - the next Chinese Year of the Tiger.

If you buy any of these packs for your cat, be sure to share a photo with the #ProtectATiger hashtag.

Become a Catservationist

Visit www.whiskas.co.uk/WWF/Catservation and upload your cat's photo to one of the 11 tiger territory maps. For every cat photo that is added, Whiskas will donate £1 to WWF's Tiger's Alive Initiative. Don't forget to share your picture once it's uploaded to help spread the word and encourage lots of other kitties to join the Catservation cause!

Text to Donate

You can donate £1 to WWF simply by texting TIGER to 70123. More information is here: http://bit.ly/TextWWF

Adopt A Wild Tiger

For a small monthly donation you can adopt Kamrita, one of 120 Bengal tigers left in Nepal.

https://support.wwf.org.uk/whiskas-tiger/?pc=ANC003001

So, come on my furry pals and your lovely humans, let's join together to help our big cousins!

Disclaimer:
Mum and I are in no way affiliated with the companies mentioned in this post.