Okay fine, the page says cougar baby, so I guess your were expecting photos of baby, here you go.

Now lets get on with talking about Baby the cougar, this is her page, I know she didn't mind sharing it with the baby photos for a few minutes

                                             Now About Baby

Baby the last of the 8 cougars, left alone on a mountain top with no hope of finding a home for her she was the last of the 8 cougars I spent 6 months of my life trying to find homes for.  After thinking it was over and they all had homes the people who were to take her backed out leaving Baby without a place to go. So once again I was off and out in cyberspace looking from list to list to find someone to love this little girl.

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It wasn't long after the information about Baby went out to the lists I received an email from a person who I knew a little bit about. This person was a responsible caring person, who already had experience and the necessary permits to take this little girl. But there was one problem no pen was built and I was asked of I could keep her until all things were ready for her to go to her new home. I said I would and now we have 3 of the 8 homeless cougars here, and we love everyone of them.

Baby has become the resident clown here, doing her ritual kill the toys every day at feeding time, she see's you heading for the shed in the morning or evening and she is off to kill the toys in the cage. She continues her antics until the food is in sight then it's hide and wait for it to come in sight, then attack the feeding station waiting for the food to drop down

                     

         Baby  now enjoying life               Rushing to say hello     Happy & recovering after surgery

 

              Baby and her near death experience.

Some time after Baby arrived the decision was made after weighing all the pros and cons to have her spayed. What should have been a simple procedure almost killed her. Baby was loaded up and off to the vet to be spayed. The surgery went off without any problems. She recovered and seemed to be doing well, but then it started, she wanted food so I offered her a small amount, she tried to eat it but couldn't. She kept having problems eating, I tried all kinds of different things to get her to eat. She desperately wanted to eat but turned away after taking a bite. This kept getting worse, days had gone by without food. The days turned into weeks, we tried everything we could think of to get her to eat, we rehydrated her and gave her shots of B vit. nothing was working. The weight was falling off her and her ribs were now showing. My greatest fear was she would die of starvation and we did not know why.

Then one day a suggestion was made from Joe Taft of EFR who has had these problems before with cats. He suggested getting Carafate and Pecid in her to see if that would help. I called the vet and had him call in a prescription for her and picked up a bottle of pepcid. Now the challenge of squirting cherry flavored Carafate down the throat of a cougar twice a day lay in front of me. The first dose was not easy but after she opened her mouth wide to hiss at me I took that opportunity to squirt it down her throat, and followed the same procedure that evening. I offered her a small amount of food that night with a crushed pepcid tablet on it, this time she ate it and it stayed down and she was looking for more. This went on for several days and finally after 18 days without food Baby was eating again. We built her a sick bay in the cage and let her out in it to move around more after being in the squeeze cage for several days. This was the only way to get the medicine down her. Now that she was eating again and drinking she could have more room to move around.

Sickbay under construction even 7 yr. old  Bradley helped with the work so Baby could move around again. After several days stuck in the transport cage where she had to be to get the medicine down her, she was now eating again and drinking. So it was time to give her more room to move. She was happy to stretch and move once again, purring and saying thank you for making me feel better.

   

           

           Stepping Out                                     Finally Free                          Feeling good enough to play

Baby has come a long way since she got so very sick, she has made up well for all those missed meals and now is fat and sassy. Her health is back, she loves to play and can't wait for you to bend down so she can give you a big fat cougar slobber right on your mouth. We have grown very attached to her and when it is time for her to go to her new home she will be missed greatly.

Below is Baby after her surgery, very skinny, but now after her recovery you can't keep her still. She is always playing and having fun, she is a sweet happy healthy girl now.

Hard to believe this is the same cougar, but after her recovery from the nervous ulcer brought on by her surgery, Carafate and Pecid brought her back to us and now she is fat sassy and  healthy.

She is very smart, you tell her to get the ball and she knows what your saying and she's off like a rocket to attack the balls in her cage. Her favorite is the blue one I filled with pebbles so it makes all kinds of noise when she is smacking it around the cage.

      

"When the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again."           W.Beebe.

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