{"id":573893820,"date":"2021-11-22T21:43:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T02:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573893820"},"modified":"2021-11-22T23:50:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T04:50:51","slug":"seeing-the-big-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/11\/22\/seeing-the-big-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the big cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

We took my in-laws to the Exotic Feline Rescue Center<\/a>. Really cool place with a great mission.<\/p>\n

We provide permanent homes for exotic felines that have been abused, abandoned or for some reason have nowhere to live out their lives, while educating the public about these beautiful cats.<\/p>\n

\u00b7 We do not buy, sell or breed cats<\/p>\n

\u00b7 We do not allow public contact with the cats<\/p>\n

\u00b7 We give big cats a home for life<\/p>\n

The EFRC owns approximately 260 acres of land in Center Point, Indiana where a staff of around 15 employees, as well as many interns and volunteers care daily for over 100 big and small exotic cats, give educational tours, sell and ship merchandise, construct and maintain enclosures, and many other tasks. We have cared for over a dozen different species throughout the years. There are just a handful of sanctuaries in the US that provide the same services that we do. We work and cooperate with many organizations including: Indianapolis Zoo, USDA, Louisville Zoo, Indiana DNR, US Fish & Wildlife and New York DEC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Everyone loves visiting there. And if you’re ever nearby, you should definitely plan a few hours and make a visit for yourself. Here are a few pictures.<\/p>\n

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And more of those tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We took my in-laws to the Exotic Feline Rescue Center. Really cool place with a great mission. We provide permanent homes for exotic felines that have been abused, abandoned or for some reason have nowhere to live out their lives, while educating the public about these beautiful cats. \u00b7 We do not buy, sell or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573893820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-family","category-monday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573893820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573893821,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893820\/revisions\/573893821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573893820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573893820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573893820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}