AR-News: (US AZ) Nonprofit scrambling to finish new home for Sabino lion

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

The captured lion's new permanent habitat must be revamped because the 
current facility is full.

KATE NOLAN
The Arizona Republic 


 
SCOTTSDALE - The mountain lion captured at Sabino Canyon on Friday wasn't the 
only one caught off guard when it woke up from sedation that night at 
Southwest Wildlife's Rio Verde Sanctuary. 
The nonprofit group had agreed last month to provide a permanent home for 
mountain lions that the state Game & Fish Department captured near Tucson. The 
animals posed a public-safety risk and had been marked for death until 
politicians and wildlife groups intervened. 
The department agreed to capture them instead, but attempts to snare the cats 
failed and cost thousands of dollars a day. On March 28, Game & Fish called 
off the search, and Sabino Canyon, which had been closed since March 9, was 
reopened Wednesday. 
Assuming that meant the lions wouldn't be coming, Southwest Wildlife canceled 
plans to build a $46,000 shelter for them.



full story:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=041204_lionupdate 
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