We offer programs to 12 schools for free each year and need sponsors to enable to allow us to do more to educate children about the importance of preservation. Children can see up to 22 species of cat and other animals standing only 3 to 6 feet away in many cases. Many children automatically react in disbelief to the enormous size of the tigers when they experience them up-close. The typical tour for young children focuses on simple facts about the animals as the children see them. For example, children age 5 to 10 will hear about how a tiger s stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same stripes.
Older children learn how tigers are ambush hunters and stalk their prey in the jungles of India.
All children learn about the fact that tigers are endangered in their native habitats and what steps they can take at home to help the plight of all endangered animals such as recycling and conserving water and energy. Children also get to hear the reasons that some of the cats are at WildLife on Easy Street. For example the fact that all of our 26 cougars were exotic pets before they grew too big and became too dangerous to be a pet. Through these stories children learn that wild animals don t make good pets. Children 10 years and older also have the opportunity to interact with one of our guest cats including bobcat, lynx, caracal or serval.