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| Colombian Nurses Animals Back to Health | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 10 2007, 10:30 PM (48 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Jan 10 2007, 10:30 PM Post #1 |
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Colombian Nurses Animals Back to Health Posted Image (AP Photo/Inaldo Perez) :: Ana Julia Torres kisses Jupiter, an African lion she rescued malnourished from a circus six years ago. By Associated Press INALDO PEREZ CALI, Colombia Through the bars of his cage, an African lion named Jupiter stretches his giant paws around the neck of Ana Julia Torres and plants a kiss on her puckered lips. It could be a kiss of gratitude: Since Jupiter was rescued six years ago from a life of abuse and malnutrition in a traveling circus, Torres has fed and nursed him back to health at her Villa Lorena shelter for injured and mistreated animals. ''Here we have animals that are lame, missing limbs, blind, cross-eyed, disabled,'' said Torres, 47, who relies on donations and her own modest teacher's salary to run the shelter in a poor neighborhood in the southern city of Cali. ''They come to us malnourished, wounded, burned, stabbed, with gunshots.'' Torres said her work rehabilitating animals began more than a decade ago when a friend gave her an owl that had been kept as a pet. Later, when she asked her students to bring their pets to school, she realized many families illegally kept wild fauna from Colombia's biologically diverse jungles in their homes. The number of animals under her care grew, and today Jupiter is among 800 recovering creatures at Villa Lorena — from burned peacocks and limbless flamencos to blind monkeys and mutilated elephants. . ''We want the animals to live in peace,'' Torres said. ''All their life they were shown at circuses and shows — this is a paradise where they can finally rest.'' http://www.happynews.com/news/182007/colom...back-health.htm |
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