Safe travels beautiful boy – June 2020
Once again we have to share the sad news that we lost one of our precious wildcats 😔
Morocco, a thirteen-year-old serval had been slowing down and becoming less mobile over the past few months, and with only three legs, it was a big concern. We increased his medication but when that didn’t make much difference we scheduled a visit to Compass Vet Clinic. Dr. Connolly did an exam and when we saw the X-rays it showed debilitating arthritis on all three legs. There was nothing more we could do for his pain so we made the tough decision not to wake him up.
We picked up Morocco and his sister from a private owner in Nevada. They were approximately two years old and had been sold from a roadside zoo. When the new owner went to pick the cats up they were already in crates and when she got home and let them out she saw that Morocco had a broken back leg 😡
Upset, she contacted the Zoo director and he said it would heal on its own. When we picked them up two years later in 2009 Morocco had never had any type of vet care and his leg had healed four inches shorter than the other. We scheduled orthopedic surgery as soon as we got back and despite the difficult surgery and a long tough recovery, we managed to save his leg. He was doing great until four years later when he snapped his Achilles’s tendon and we had to amputate it. However this time the recovery was much easier and he could run and play on three legs with no problem.
He and his sister Tanzi lived together the entire time at WildCat Ridge Sanctuary and Morocco let her run the show. They were very bonded and spent most of their time playing and napping together. We know that Tanzi feels the loss even more than we do, but as time goes by, we hope she will adjust. Morocco was such a calm, quiet boy, who enjoyed boxes, different scents for enrichment, and living his life with Tanzi. Although it was the right thing to do, we’re still so sad to have lost him. Safe travels beautiful boy, we miss you so much and will take good care of Tanzi for you ❤️
