Welcome to our Walk on The Wildside!   "Wild @ Heart Highlanders"   Walk on the Wildside is proud to offer FOR SALE, the LOOK OF THE WILD in THE HEART OF THE TAME for those who would love an exotic cat but laws forbid you to own one, we now have a more domestic alternative, The Incredible Highlander!! We are now breeding and offering for sale to qualified homes, Highlander kittens, visit our site and find one that will steal your heart  "Wild @ Heart Highlanders" http://www.wildathearthighlanders.com TICA & REFR reg. kittens. Our kittens help fund our rescue and help us to continue our work saving the exotic feline and giving them a permanent home to live out their lives.                                                    Enter now if you dare!!                                                                                              "My Precious, my Precious" We are dedicated to the exotic feline here, providing a safe and permanent home for the uprooted and neglected. A home where they can live out their lives in peace until they pass from this earth. We are a small rescue dealing in quality care, not quantity. We will not take on more than we can handle this is a promise to all the cats here. They will get the love and attention they deserve. Far too many places take on more than they can handle and the animals pay the price because they have to many cats to care for and they do not get the individual attention and love they deserve each day.  We pride ourselves on what we can do for these cats, not what can this cat do for us.  We hope you will take the time to meet and learn about the residents here, and help us continue.  With your help we may not change the world but maybe we can change the life for one more. If you have always dreamed of having an exotic feline of your own, learn as much as you can first. Read, study, educate yourself before you take on this responsibility read "Till Death Do US Part" This may give you some idea of things you need to know and learn before you make this life changing decision.  Beware of breeders, research who they are before you buy, do your homework first.                                             THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS!! Our  sincerest thanks go out to those who have donated and given their support we have now been able to build our much needed perimeter fence.  Also we will be able to add a new cage and hopefully in time a large run for the cats to play and run in. You are the saviors of these wonderful creatures and we have been blessed you chose to help them. Our gratitude and thanks to those who helped us achieve this goal you are special people. FUTURE GOALS   We are trying to also raise the much needed funds for 2 surgery's on the female cougars here. They have been drawing in a wild male all summer and I feel he will not be going anywhere. As long as the girls keep getting his attention he will be close by. This would not be a problem for the adults here but we also have 3 young children living here from age 2 to 10 and summer has been spent indoors because of the intruder. The children can not go outdoors unless an adult is with them at all times. The wild male seems to have no fear  of humans and these kids are prey size for him. Because we do not want any harm to come to the children or to the wild male we would like to add more perimeter fence around the yard to keep the cougar away from the children. So we are in need of funds to expand the fence around the property. Our future goal is to build a habitat for the cougars and give them more room to run free and play. If you would like to help it would be greatly appreciated.  A habitat with a small pond and trees to lounge under, towers and rock formations to climb.  We also want to increase the size of some of the smaller cages, giving them more room to run and play.                                                         WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN A pledge we made when this all began was we will never take on more than we can properly feed and care for out of our own pockets. We know counting on donations to support this rescue would be stupid on our part. We don't house the big cats, we took on the ones who don't get the big donations and corporate funds to care for them. This are the ones that are not in the news, these are the forgotten out there. The small exotic, not news worthy, and easily lost to the world. While the Tigers, Lions and other Great Cats, or endangered make news around the world, the  insignificant small cats from bobcat to cougar are the lost souls, who are being ignored. But they live, the breath, they feel pain and fear. They too need a safe place where they can live out the remainder of their lives in peace. This is the promise I made to those who have come to us, they are safe now, they are home.  Help us keep them safe.   Below the Iberian Lynx the most endangered spieces in the world. Don't let her disapear from our earth. HELP HER PLEASE!!!! Learn more about them here and how you can help them survive at www.soslynx.org/       This cat is not only endangered to the brink of total extinction but also unknown to the majority of us.  It is getting wiped out in silence. Do not let her go silently into the night. HELP SAVE THEM !! WITH ONLY AN ESTIMATED 150 POPULATION THE IBERIAN LYNX IS EUROPES BIGGEST CAT SPECIES AND ITS EXTINCTION WOULD BE THE FIRST FELINE EXTINCTION IN THE WORLD SINCE PREHISTORIC TIMES. Iberian Photos  http://www.garyrobertsphotography.com Thank You Gary for letting us use them.

Draco upon arrival, very thin, in poor condition.          Backbone and ribs were visible, stomach sunken in, severely under weight. You will get to meet some of the cats of Walk on the Wildside and tour their homes, and learn a little about how they came to us. All the cats here have a story and have  come to us in need of help, we could not turn them away.                                 Learn about our visit to the reserve in Ecuador as Touch the Jungle struggled to save a small piece of heaven on earth Playa de Oro Reserva de Tigillos, a 25,000-acre rain forest reserve, created for the protection of margays, ocelot, and oncillas.           Precious one of our newer arrivals        The destruction of natural habit grows everyday, man continues to pillage the forests and the rainforests, and threatens the very existence of so many creatures that depend on these places to exist. A species that is threatened is only one step away from endangered, the next step is EXTINCT!! ......EXTINCTION IS FOREVER, once they are gone they will never be again.             Baby the newest cougar, learning to be a tree hugger to save her natural habitat for all her wild friends

Draco today . Much happier and healthier Our nonprofit is dedicated to saving the exotic feline , one cat at a time and giving the abused and uprooted a permanent safe home, and to educate the public about the wonders of these cats. We have information available to you on our links page, some wonderful informative sites to learn from.               Missy African Caracal With laws changing every day the animals pay the price, they loose their home and security, uprooted and now in need of being relocated. Our goal is to help educate the public and the law-makers before more are uprooted and loose their secure homes. We will continue our work with your help. With your support and donations we can continue to build cages and habitats for more Exotic Feline. With your support we can provide permanent homes for others in need.            Draco today living the good life  "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. Nabacha one of our new girls           African Serval Nyla arrived early Spring 2007

Please help us continue caring  for the cats by making a donation. Become a part of our rescue through your donations. The cats are counting on your help. Please give so others can live.   EXTINCTION IS FOREVER!!!     Free Site Counter