The director of the Wild Felid Advocacy Center in Shelton said they went from having 37 cats to now just having 17. Some cats who survived are still recovering.

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Shelton animal sanctuary says 20 large cats are dead from avian flu outbreak

A local wild cat sanctuary is mourning the loss of more than a dozen animals as a deadly disease spreads throughout the country. The Wild Felid Advocacy Center of Washington in Shelton lost 20 big cats to bird flu this month, Wild Felid Advocacy Center Director Mark Matthews confirmed to MyNorthwest Monday. Matthews shared the center initially thought the cats had cancer in the chest area as they exhibited pneumonia-like symptoms. However, furth…

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Bird flu kills 20 wild cats at Shelton sanctuary

A wildlife conservation for big cats in Washington has lost more than half of the animals at its sanctuary after they contracted bird flu. The Wild Felid Advocacy Center announced late last week that 20 big cats were killed around Thanksgiving shortly after they started showing signs of being sick. Cats are particularly vulnerable to contracting bird flu and can die as quickly as 24 hours after becoming infected, the center said. The following a…

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Dec. 24—Four cougars. Four bobcats. Two lynx. Even a Bengal tiger. Bird flu has taken a terrible toll at the Wild Felid Advocacy Center, a sanctuary for wildcats and their hybrids on Harstine Island, killing 20 cats — half the animals in its care. "The only thing I can compare it to, as a veteran, is being in a war zone," director Mark Mathews said in an interview Tuesday. The sanctuary is ...

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Twenty big cats at a wild animal sanctuary in Shelton have died from the bird flu.

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Bird flu kills 20 big cats at Shelton sanctuary, devastating conservation efforts

Twenty big cats, including a half-Bengal tiger and four cougars, died between late November and mid-December at a sanctuary in Washington State after becoming infected with bird flu, according to the facility’s director. “We’ve never had anything like it; they usually die basically of old age,” said Mark Mathews, the founder and director of the Wild Felid Advocacy Center in Shelton, Wash. “Not something like this, it’s a pretty wicked virus.” Th…

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20 Big Cats Die From Bird Flu at a Washington Sanctuary

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.More than half of the cats at the sanctuary in Shelton, Wash., died of the virus over the past several weeks.A resident cougar, one of 20 big cats who died after contracting bird flu at the Wild Felid Advocacy Center in Shelton, Wash.Credit...Wild Felid Advocacy Center of WashingtonDec. 24, 2024, 6:13 p.m. …

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An animal shelter in Shelton, Washington is grappling with a devastating bird flu outbreak that killed 20 of its big cats last week, including a Bengal tiger.

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20 big cats dead after bird flu outbreak at WA animal sanctuary

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