AR-News: (US IN) Joe Taft provides sanctuary for exotic felines when owners can't or won'

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Staffers at the Exotic Feline Rescue Center roll over Cubbie, an anesthetized 
male lion having a vasectomy. -- AJ Mast / The Star
 
 
 

By Will Higgins
will.higgins at indystar.com
April 5, 2004
 

CENTER POINT, Ind. -- Big cats -- lions, tigers, cougars, etc. -- are just so 
. . . cool. So strong, so savage; yet so elegant, so graceful.
Joe Taft knows what people are thinking. He thought it himself. When Taft was 
in his 20s and bent on impressing people, he had the harebrained dream of 
owning a pet cheetah and driving the beast around Terre Haute, where he was 
majoring in philosophy at Indiana State University, in a Lotus sports car.
Taft settled for an ocelot and an MG, but still he felt mighty fine. Owning a 
wild animal was indeed novel in the mid-1960s. It's still unusual.
Exotic Feline Rescue Center

• Where: Center Point, in western Indiana. 
• Tours: The center offers tours to the public for $10 a person. 
• Information: Call (812) 835-1130.Exotic Feline Rescue Center 





full story:

http://www.indystar.com/articles/8/135181-8518-047.html 
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