Sick Tiger Cub Gets Rescued From Circus, Makes Incredible Recovery And Finds Love
SHES BLEPPING IN THE LAST PHOTO HELP ME
Since so many “tiger rescues” aren’t really rescues at all, I did some googling on this one.
Good news: This is a legit rescue, carried out by Tigers in America. This organisation rescues tigers from horrible situations like this.
If you’re an animal conservationist looking for an organisation to support, Tigers in America is worth looking into.
In-Sync Exotics – the place this cat lives – is a legitimate sanctuary, but this whole piece is actually just a rip-off of a Dodo “article”. The clickbait sentence above is the title and probably supposed to be an embedded link. I’m not a fan of the fact that this post doesn’t bother to name the facility currently housing her.
Aasha was brought to In-Sync with massive ringworm (what you see in the photos above) along with open wounds that were possibly bite marks. The In-Sync Exotics website doesn’t say where she came from – just that she was bouncing from situation to situation – but the Dodo article (which I am purposefully not linking to, because they are trash) says she was seized from a circus by the USDA. I can’t source that, and I generally mistrust the Dodo because they can’t fact-check their way out of an open door, but they did interview the sanctuary’s founder so it’s likely at least close to the truth.
“By the time Aasha came to In-Sync she was almost completely bald. We were told that she was believed to be about 7 months old and stunted in growth making her about the size of a bobcat. Weighing in at 37 pounds told us that she was around 4 months old. She wasn’t underweight but was covered all over with ringworm. Her tiny feet were swollen and red; the skin on her tummy was raw, red and cracking. For 4 weeks we had to give Aasha baths with medicated shampoo and dip her in a special dip. She also had to take two kinds of oral medications to help clear up and sooth her skin.Since Aasha has been here she is healing and becoming more like a tiger cub. She enjoys playing with her enrichment and has learned to play with the water from the hose. She hasn’t jumped in her tub yet but we know it is just a matter of time. All of us at In-Sync are looking forward to a long happy healthy life with Aasha and a lot of great laughs.“
As the photos above / Dodo “article” show, Aasha is now housed with another adult tiger – a male named Smuggler. Contrary to the messaging espoused by some of the big cat sanctuaries with a large internet presence, it is actually entirely okay and a fairly normal practice to co-house adult big cats… IF their personalities are compatible. Introductions are done slowly, starting at a distance, and they’re set up for success and to minimize any incidence of resource guarding or territorial issues. Some big cats – even tigers – really like having companionship. Some don’t. Both are fine and good.
In-Sync is not accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries, but after looking through their site and from what I’ve heard about them over the years, I’m not worried about that. It sounds like their tours are self-guided (you walk around on your own, like you would at a zoo), which is something GFAS standards prohibit. There are any number of reasons a small sanctuary would choose to prioritize having self-guided tours, but the most probable is that guided tours take a lot of extra staff and/or volunteer time and training. Most of their organization is volunteer-run, and if they’re going to focus on animal care instead of having docents shepherd people around, that’s a reasonable choice.
Tigers in America is not really a great metric to use for if a rescue or a facility is one to support, because they’re basically a membership organization for sanctuaries with tigers. Their founder is on the GFAS board, and honestly, given how he’s been talking since 2014 about how TIA facilities collectively have more tigers than AZA’s conservation breeding programs do… I’m not sure how much stock I put in them. They’re supposed to be a collection of the “best” big cat sanctuaries, but I can’t find the metric they’re using to determine that. They’ve got a lot of high-profile members, like Big Cat Rescue, and some really weird places, like The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado – which has over 500 carnivores that they’ve imported from across the glove, has an very strict no-photos policy, won’t let you in the gate unless you give them a ton of personal information, and puts their employees and visiting professionals under incredibly tight non-disclosure agreements. There are other credible big cat sanctuaries, such as Tiger Haven in Tennessee (where the cats owned by Ringling went), that are not part of the TIA network. You’ve really gotta do your own research into each and every place you think you want to support.
hate the fandom idea that if you criticise something it means you hate it and hate everyone enjoying it. that’s false. i can’t stop criticising overwatch, but if you’d look at my blog for 3 seconds you’d also see i love the game. every book i’ve read in the last couple of years has contained things i criticise them for, and yet i’ve read my top favourite books of all time during that time as well.
the idea that you can criticise a creator’s work and the idea that you can still enjoy it can co-exist. acting like everything you consume can never be criticised is dangerous, because it means people won’t talk about improvement in, for example, portrayal of minorities. it also shows how extremely privileged the anti-discourse part, the “just enjoy the work” part, of fandom is, because complaining about artistic discourse purposefully shuts down voices that aren’t white, cisgender and heterosexual: it’s white fans that complain about how fans of colour ruin their fandom by bringing up racism; it’s cis fans that complain about how trans fans ruin fandom by bringing up transphobia within the work; it’s heterosexual fans that complain about how lgbt fans ruin everything by bringing up homophobia.
criticising media is healthy, it’s good, and it’s what improves what we consume. criticism is a part of the artistic culture, part of a discussion between consumers and its creators, and fandom needs to realise that it can’t separate itself from that.
Y’all gotta watch what you say to kids and in front of kids. I was working with some young black kids today and one of the girls asked me why I had my hair natural. I told her I’m just taking a break from weaves and braids and all that and she said oh girl no we too dark to have our nappy hair out like that. She was 9. She said she doesn’t leave her house without it flat ironed because people will think she’s broke and ugly. This is also the same girl that last summer told me that we needed to go inside out of the sun because boys don’t like girls with dark skin. Little kids don’t come up with this stuff themselves, they hear their parents or other people talk about things and internalize the self hate or will tell these hurtful untrue things to their darker peers.
I work at a library, plenty of kids say shit like this. Since I like art, I draw dark skin girls with them everyday. I draw natural hair. Dark brown eyes. Draw with them all the time. Sneak in messages about self love. I try to tell them frequently I love their natural hair no matter the length or even if it’s damaged, let them know they are beautiful it’s not fucking cute that people demand black girls, and these are children, to be literally perfect. That’s not okay. I show them pics of dark skinned girls etc. like it’s up to us to help them and we all can do so much even with very little. Their parents might be trash, but positive encounters with people combats the toxicity and it does help I’ve seen it myself
“I’m Dale Hanson, it’s getting harder to enjoy the day” lord jebus have marsy!!!!
I love dale hansen so much
I FUCKING SCREAMED AT WORK I LOVE THIS MAN PREACH SIR PREACH
Remember, Dale Hansen is also the one who spoke up about African-Americans taking a knee during the national anthem/White privilege (hint: He’s pro-knee)
And also about rape on college campuses (how it’s not the woman’s fault – warning, very personal):
AND about Michael Sam coming out (hint: he’s calling homophobes out)
Dale knows what’s up. Take note: This is how to be an ally. Especially in Texas.
This man is amazing!!
Here’s one more for yall on trans athletes. I love this guy, especially for his clear willingness to work on his own areas of bias and ignorance
this tweet goes from surreal to hilarious when you realize that she was the CEO of Reddit
Casual reminder that while she was CEO at Reddit she created a salary negotiation policy that evened the playing field for women employed by Reddit.
Not-at-all-casual-reminder that she left Reddit in 2015 after being forced to resign because Reddit lost its collective shit at her when the site banned 5 subreddits for harassment; not-at-fucking-all casual reminder that Ellen Pao was the CEO of Reddit when it banned revenge porn after The Fappening.
One of the subreddits that was banned that led to her resignation was r/fatpeople hate. The others were transphobic and racist.
In her time at Reddit Pao did more than the site had ever before done to fight harassment from its user base and for that someone started a subreddit calling for her firing and trying to make nazi and ISIS imagery come up in searches associated with her name.
If *anyone* in the tech industry knows what the blackpill subculture is like and how vile and toxic groups spawned in subreddits can be it’s Ellen Pao.
This isn’t someone who’s oblivious to the fact that her former company is a source of the problem, this is someone who is speaking from personal experience with online harassment campaigns orchestrated by people who want the freedom to post celebrity nudes who were *enraged* that she made it harder for them to do so.
(also basically the rest of her twitter is about #metoo, the need for labor regulation and worker protections, and salary transparency so maybe go check her out)
I’m out. I introduce myself to people with my name and pronouns.
In my email signature, my pronouns are directly underneath my name in an only slightly smaller font.
It’s February, and I already have secured a summer internship.
I’m in the top 25% of my class.
You can be nonbinary, and you can be out, and you can still succeed. You don’t have to compromise. There’s going to be transphobic people, there always will, but being out does not mean you can’t pursue the career you want.
The most important thing, the most necessary thing, is to find support from other trans people and from allies who use your pronouns publicly and without shame.
Cudjo Lewis, who was born as Kossola, was nearly 90 years old and living in Plateau, Alabama. He was thought to be the last African man alive who had been kidnapped from his village in West Africa in 1859 and forced into slavery in America aged 19.
Hurston, who was an anthropologist, documented her interviews with Lewis during the late 1920s and wrote a book in his own words about his life titled, ‘Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’.
But the manuscript she wrote was turned down by multiple publishers in 1931 who felt as though Lewis’s heavily accented dialect was too difficult to read.
For decades, Hurston’s manuscript of the book was tucked away inside Howard University’s archives until The Zora Neale Hurston Trust found a buyer for the book – more than 50 years after her death in 1960. On Tuesday, May 8, 2018. ‘Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’,’ was published by Amistad/HarperCollins.
Of her time spent with Lewis, Hurston wrote in a letter to her friend, fellow Harlem Renaissance author and poet Langston Hughes, that the experience left her deeply moved, according to her biography, ‘Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston’ by author Valerie Boyd.
‘Tears welled in his eyes as he described the trip across the ocean in the Clotilda,’ Hurston wrote, as cited in Boyd’s biography.
‘But what moved Hurston most about the old man — whom she always called by his African name, Kossola — was how much he continued to miss his people back in Nigeria. ‘I lonely for my folks,’ he told her.
‘After seventy-five years he still had that tragic sense of loss…That yearning for blood and cultural ties. That sense of mutilation. It gave me something to feel about.’
wupacing 