December 22, 2007

Walking a Puma


Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!


Right now I am volunteering at a very unique animal refuge in Central Bolivia. You can check out their website (and donate!): http://www.intiwarayassi.org/. My job is to walk a three year old puma named Leoncio. His Mom was shot by poachers when he was a baby and he was sold on the black market to a family as a pet. When he was 9 months old the mother of the house beat him so hard they his back legs broke in three places. Leo and I are buddies now but for the first few days he 'tested me' (i.e., attacked) all the time.

The work is very tough and wet (I am covered in cat scratches and mosquito bites) but it has been amazing. There are also monkeys, birds and loads of other animals at the pàrk. The monkeys are very cute but you have to watch your cookies and cameras because some were trained as pickpockets before coming to the park. So far they have only gotten two oreo cookies from me, the puma seems to scare them off.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Merry Christmas!!! Did you get our Christmas Card?

Anonymous said...

Good to hear you pasted the puma test.

Brent

Anonymous said...

passed

Mark VanderVen said...

Was it easy to piss the puma test?

He's a cute fellow!

The Snack Artist said...

i miss you so much! i'd like to say i can't believe all of the amazing things that you are doing - but i can believe it. you're kellie.

Anonymous said...

?Como esta tu espanol? !Te extrano!

Anonymous said...

forget presents, snow, and good whiskey, you walked a PUMA for X-Mas....now that is right on point PJ ;-) hope all is well and safe with you

-KB

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