Safe travels beautiful boy – April 10, 2020
Sebastian came with Carrie, a Caracal back in July of 2010. Wild Animal Orphanage was shutting down and all the animals needed to find new homes. We offered to take both Carrie and Sebastian and also two tigers, Mac & Shirley. Paperwork showed he was ten years old and when they arrived Sebastian came out of his crate happy and purring.
He was the most social of all the servals and had different companions over the years but Spizz was the serval he was with the longest. Sebastian was always happy, he loved the water, painting and any sort of enrichment that included a box. He would play for hours with feather toys and carried them around as keep away with Spizz. Over the past few months, we watched him slow down but his attitude never changed, he was still our precious Sebastian.
This past week he decided that he wasn’t hungry and we did everything to stimulate his appetite but nothing worked. We called Dr. Connolly on Friday and she came in on her day off to do an exam and what she found on the exam was fluid in his chest indicating heart disease. We made the painful decision not to wake him up.
It’s heartbreaking to lose any of the wildcats and it’s especially hard when they’ve been part of the WildCat Ridge Family for so many years. We miss his sweet nature and playful attitude and wish we could have had more time. Safe travels beautiful boy, things won’t be the same without you . . . 😢
