{"id":239,"date":"2006-01-26T22:27:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T04:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2006-01-26T22:27:11","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T04:27:11","slug":"conservation-for-wild-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/2006\/01\/conservation-for-wild-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation for Wild Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the day surrounded by wildcats &#8212; simply breathtaking. :)&nbsp; We are working with Big Cat Rescue, gathering reference for new work through numerous hours of study.&nbsp; We have some fund raising work scheduled for the near future &#8211; I will be sure to post about that when plans are fully developed.&nbsp; Thanks so much to the keepers at Big Cat Rescue for their help!!<\/p>\n<p>The organization is the largest in the world, and they are filled to capacity with rescued felines.&nbsp; I find it disturbing that a furrier would (and does) sacrifice twenty cats for a small patch of white belly fur to make one fur coat.&nbsp; One.&nbsp; Or how someone would think that an African lion would make a nice household pet.&nbsp; These are things that the Big Cat Rescue is working to change through their education programs.&nbsp; It is a very worthy cause and deserves support.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rebecca Latham - Wildlife Artist\" style=\"width: 26px; height: 17px\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Rebecca Latham - Wildlife Artist\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/RL.gif?resize=26%2C17\" width=\"26\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Latham Studios - Wildlife &#038; Nature Art\" style=\"width: 54px; height: 33px\" height=\"33\" alt=\"Latham Studios - Wildlife &#038; Nature Art\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/LizardClip_1.gif?resize=54%2C33\" width=\"54\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the day surrounded by wildcats &#8212; simply breathtaking. :)&nbsp; We are working with Big Cat Rescue, gathering reference for new work through numerous hours of study.&nbsp; We have some fund raising work scheduled for the near future &#8211; I will be sure to post about that when plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,12,17],"tags":[53,65,1670,111,1788,692,175,184,193,194,342,364,396,460,463,472],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-inspiration_researchstudy_fieldtrips","category-paintings","tag-animal","tag-artist","tag-big-cat-rescue","tag-cat","tag-conservation","tag-education","tag-felines","tag-florida","tag-fund_raising","tag-fur","tag-post","tag-reference","tag-small","tag-wildcats","tag-wildlife","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}