Photos: Wild Felid Advocacy Center
Headline: CNN, 12/26/2024
The Wild Felid Advocacy Center of Washington announced the deaths Friday on Facebook. The nonprofit sanctuary is in Shelton, about 22 miles northwest of Olympia.
“We thought we were doing everything we could to avoid anything like this from happening,” the center’s director and cofounder Mark Mathews told CNN. “The cats are pretty well split up into 30- by 40-foot habitats.”
Mathews said the cats’ enclosures are spread out across 5 acres.
It is currently unknown exactly how the big cats contracted bird flu, but Mathews said the first death occurred around Thanksgiving.
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