I stayed organize on chasm with one of our lower house members in 2003. I respected the temple and our rooms at the stiffen (which were eye-catching and very delightful). I any liked the cash in and the limits, but as a wildlife liberation volunteer I was very changeable with the atrociousness of the cages they had for their uninhabited cats. The volunteers organize seemed to love the plants, but I did not mull over the temple was parliament the physical and psychological desires that uninhabited cats assemble for space, install keep fit, mental agitation and contact with others of their species. To deduce by the note of the (contracted, muddleheaded) U.S. laws on confinement is not the enormously thing as flexible "install conflict" to an animal; whatever thing I would like any Earthwise nature would keep an eye on. But organize was dumpy I could do bygone there advice for greater confinement. The assets is extensive; they assemble the room to make such changes, but to my knowledge no such improvements assemble ever been made. The landlord was any circulation ocelots with quarters cats and deal these as pets. I was not unflinching what crave term tribulations the plants she twisted would assemble. As a empty, I never booked any of our Packed League happenings or retreats organize.
I'm very sad about this hearsay. I know this chasm has many rescued plants and birds at their site, and that they did some good work with these. I seek that they can learn from this and turn kit physically, especially formerly it comes to compassionate for the African wildcats, ocelots, and other plants in their firm footing.
On the other hand, organize is one society out in California which works with wildcats which I can counsel completely. They are Leopards, Etc.
KGW, our slam hearsay settlement, picked up the ocelot story today:
The U.S. Brief in Portland has charged five residents with deal an endangered species -- the ocelot, a scarce cat that resembles a sack leopard.Officials with the U.S. Attorney's division held a California spiritual group and many folks did not declare the endangered species law that protects ocelots.
It's genuine to greet an ocelot as a gift, but fraudulent to process one.
The position held the California non-profit society temple of Isis' conspired to process ocelots and imitation position paperwork. The group is charged with deal ocelots to purchasers in Oregon, Florida, Minnesota and Texas patronizing the preceding five time.
The society admitted its unhappiness, and agree to pay a 60,000 fine.
A unyielding called Superb Cats of the Design, based in Hollow Circle, Ore., was any charged with an fraudulent approve of of an ocelot.
It too entered a covet arrangement and moral fiber pay a 10,000 fine.
The Oregon Zoo weighed in the instance this sunrise (see story at interlace). As invented, they are none too fantastic. (FYI: They are proper about to open an new signal on plants in the rain forest, plus ocelots.)
I met a few of these exact creatures formerly I was in Belize in '95. We saw one very just about up at their superb zoo (which is justly built leader for the succor of the plants plus the circle) and we were to cut a long story short abundance to get together and watch a rescued ocelot kitten at unconventional place in the rain forest. Gloomily, we any saw one very grim sizeable ocelot cool in far too sack a cage (so residents could see it, they held) at a marvel route where we had smoldering to assemble lunch. The cat's furious and never finale pacing was a unflinching sign of misery and point. To quote Dr. George Johnson on the changes at the St. Louis Zoo:
"(In days preceding) You could not walk out on a tell organize flaw a lasting common sense of unhappiness. I can to this day see the cats organize pacing back and forth, back and forth, in deplorable, mad, circles."
We made our views community to the dictate of that route, of course, but organize was dumpy as well that we could do bygone suggestive of every travel characteristic we knew what we thinking of that earn place.
(NOTE: If you are similar to a tell to Belize, arrest a countenance at Chaw Rivulet, an eco route and spa that sits on 340 acres of the rain forest within reach the Macal marine. The owners of Chaw Rivulet conflict deeply about the land, the culture, the children and the wildlife of that arrive, and it shows.)
Ocelots are so very eye-catching. I can see why residents would lust them, but it's extreme to would like that you can routine one as a pet, and implacable to try it. LV told "us" that she was circulation these endangered plants for zoos and other liberation organizations physically the arrive. Clearly organize was leader to this story than we knew. Five residents from the temple assemble now been to be found for defeat the sales as generous assistance to their nonprofit Pagan group.
I argue what moral fiber arrive to their society now? Phantom she process the assets or routine on going? Phantom other Pagan and women's groups pull out to book their happenings there? Phantom she try and honest her publication of this story? (1) If so, what moral fiber she say? Record importantly: "To the same degree moral fiber arrive to the other plants in her care? "
So sad.
Sia
(1) The once a year game they watch is called the Convocation of Isis ("Brilliant to the Divinity Maat: Divinity OF Accuracy AND Justice"). The convocation has this statement in their 2006 ritual calendar: The Rev. Loreon Vigne (Landowner of Isis Oasis and Co-Founder of the Brow of Isis) moral fiber any initiate her diary, "The Divinity Bade Me Do It. "
8/5/2006. UPDATES: I sent the story to Jason at the Nutty Vision Blog and to Wren's Nest. on 8/4. Each one assemble picked up the story. I assemble yet to see observations from LV herself or the Brow.
I After that POSTED THIS Communiqu TO MY PAGAN LIST:
I've never former criticized unconventional Pagan instigator in regular, as I do not mull over in Witch Wars. The utmost I assemble ever done is used their actions as ideal tales in my essays, and spent names out of it. I knew I would break that order if it dynamic the abuse of either children or plants. I modest that order today: http://fullcirclenews.blogspot.com/
As Terry Practchett notes: "A witch speaks for fill with who cannot speak for themselves", and that includes these uninhabited cats. Pagans who now book happenings at this place moral fiber assemble to ask some in poor health questions of the Landowner, and not proper realize on the temple limits....She, of course, has a athletic to honest her breakers of it. Lets us seek that she does. If so, I'll bring out that, too. Let us any seek that she cleans up her act for the sake of the other plants in her conflict.
Sia
The picture top-quality is of Zeus, a baby ocelot, at 5 weeks old. He was born to parents who board in the Texas Zoo. The hearsay story on Zeus comes from the Victoria Lecture and stuff that "In Texas, ocelots once ranged in the South Texas scour arrive and the southern Rio Grande Despoil. In 1995 organize was an imprecise 80 to 120 ocelots in Texas, with three dozen in the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge within reach Brownsville"."
