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WE ARE NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. We are often asked, “Why Not?” The answer is: Sara’s Sanctuary is NOT a zoo. We are a rescue facility that was created to provide animals in need a quiet, predictable. safe and loving home, something many of them never known before. Because of their backgrounds, many of the animals that are here can be unpredictable and reactive negatively around humans they don’t know. Many of animals were illegally purchased, abandoned and subsequently confiscated by city or county agencies before they were brought to us. They are innately wild animals and many need to be protected from the stress of further human exposure and interaction. The animal’s daily care and well-being has to be our number one priority. We hope that you will be able to better know who these wonderful and deserving babies are through the information and pictures on this website of our many wonderful babies, and that you will better understand our mission for the animals that come to us.
Very soon, there will be many baby critters out there, trying very hard to survive with nature and us HUMANS. There will be many squirrels, cottontails,”wild rabbits,” raccoons, and fawns (baby deer), which might seem like they have been abandoned. Please stop – before you make that decesion to pick them up. Usually, the situation is OK, and the mother has just been scared off by humans or other animals, or typically they are off feeding themselves. They are probably waiting nearby to continue to care for their babies until you go away! Please resist picking them up! If you truly think they are injured or orphaned, only then – pick them up and intervine, and then you MUST take them to a licensed rehabilitation facility. Please read the Baby Cottontail Information located on our “Contact Page” before you try to make that determination. |
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Jess the Serval
This is the Beginning a Better Life for This Wonderful Serval.
We were called to help with a Serval that the owners could no longer care for. This little girl, was being kept in a back yard in a busy crowded neighborhood. Her enclosure was a very unsecured small pen, put together with small zip ties and wild bird netting. The owner told us that this cat probably had an abscess and that they had done nothing to treat it. When we first set eyes on her, she was huddled in a corner gnawing on a growth on her leg. It was obvious that it was not an abscess, but a very large tumor.
Prepping for surgery
She had not received any medical care for this very painful, long-time growth. This owner knew it was illegal to own this type of exotic cat in the State of Washington without a USDA license. Probably one of the reasons that he did not seek medical help for her.
When we picked this serval up, we immediately took her to our vet and had her health issues assessed. The tumor was removed the next day and the pathology report came back. This is a very aggressive form of cancer. Although she is in no pain now, we will have to wait to see if she will be able to keep the leg, or even survive this cancer. Because this tumor was left for such a long time, it might have already metastasized to her lungs.
The tumor is finally out!
She is a very happy kitty now! She is experiencing things everyday that are new and exciting – especially with the other animals around her. Only a few days after surgery, she is climbing on platforms, to levels of 15′. She want’s to pounce on her prey and she is getting the diet that she has needed all these years. Jess is already a different serval compared to when we first met her. These cats so deserve to live in the wild, not be somone’s pet in their powder room or garage.