Ty Serval Escapes

Ty Serval arrived today and promptly escaped. His previous owners had become worried that Ty, who has all of his claws, would harm their young children. The breeder had told them that if they raised Ty with their infant son they would bond forever. By the time Ty was three, the boy was still a toddler and Ty went after him.

 

The parents had visited Wildlife on Easy Street before and felt that Ty would have a comfortable and happy home here. His owners caught him up in a crab trap and transported him to the sanctuary in the back of their pick up truck. After spending days in the heat, on the open road, he finally arrived. 

 

In the course of trying to release him from the crab trap into his new enclosure he got past us and spent days on the lamb.   Daniel Capiro and Jamie tracked Ty back to the furthermost NW corner of the property.  Night after night they were tracking in the dark and one night looked up to see Ty just watching them. 

 

Now that they had narrowed down the capture area, they set up live traps with food, thinking he just has to be hungry or thirsty.   Nothing tasted as good as his freedom, so that wasn’t working.

 

We tried chasing and netting Ty but servals are fast, great jumpers and that proved unfruitful.  We chased him under one of the semi trailer bodies, up on wheels, that littered the area.  I decided I wasn’t going to chase this cat every day forever across 40 acres so we brought cage panels to the area and built a cage around the bottom to confine him.  We created a smaller space, with food and water, so we could lure him into that area and close him in.  It was our longest recapture effort but worth it as we got him in the end.   

 

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