![]() “Nobody knows yet if Kylo Ren is a villain,” cautions Keahey, saying the character has a good heart deep down. Emily takes him home with her, and then two or three times a week I stay with him here,” says Keahey, “so that she can get some sleep and I can get some sleep.”Īs for his name, “Star Wars” fans will like this: Kylo Ren! But, why name him after a villain? She may have simply not known what to do or might have had a cub taken away or die in the past, so Keahey and Wilson had to become surrogate parents, providing round-the-clock care just like a human baby requires. In addition to the challenge of learning how to care for a newborn tiger, the cub’s mother rejected him for an unknown reason. The first was a cougar who is still around. This is only the second on-site birth in the sanctuary’s history and the other was in its first year of existence in 2000. “It’s exciting, it’s scary, it’s all those things all wrapped up,” says the sanctuary’s founder, Vicky Keahey. Zahra, a rescue from Colorado who arrived at In-Sync Exotics in mid-January, was about halfway through that 3-month wait when she birthed a single cub. So, they wait for the full length of a normal gestation period before operating just to be safe. Sanctuaries neuter and spay their animals shortly after arrival to prevent breeding, but they can’t always tell if a female is already pregnant when they get one. “It was a really big surprise,” says staff veterinarian Emily Wilson. ![]() ![]() But, later that day they also welcomed a baby white tiger… which they were not expecting. ( KDAF) - March 6 was a busy day for the crew at the In-Sync Exotics animal sanctuary in Wylie.įirst they welcomed an 8-year-old white tiger, Gus, which they knew would be happening. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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