[FEL-L] Woman Runs Retirement Home For Big Cats

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Woman Runs Retirement Home For Big Cats
POSTED: 9:52 am EDT July 2, 2007  
AP
 
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WELLINGTON, Fla. -- A Wellington woman is running a retirement home for big 
cats. 
Judy Berens houses the cats in leafy enclosures separated by chain link 
fences on her ten-acre horse farm called Panther Ridge Sanctuary 
She has a leopard, two jaguars, one serval, one caracal, four clouded 
leopards, five cougars and six ocelots. 
Berens said she goes through 100 pounds of meat a day and $150,000 a year 
caring for them. She said she pays for caring for the cats with fundraising 
through her nonprofit organization and donations. 
Berens is careful to point out that although some of her big cats are social, 
they are not domesticated. She has been scratched and bitten enough times to 
remind her they're still wild animals.
 
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