Canada Lynx

Make a donation to the "Jynx the Lynx" Facebook fundraiser here. All proceeds will go to making his new home at Cat Tales all it can be.

Mead, WA— 8/25/20 — Cat Tales Wildlife Center welcomes a new member to the animal family.  Jynx the Lynx, a 12-year-old Canada Lynx, arrived at Cat Tales Thursday where he will be housed in a temporary quarantine space before moving into his new home in the recently renovated Small Cat Forest section of the park.  Recently Jynx’s lifelong owner and bonded caregiver, Jon, passed away.  A longtime friend of Jon’s who was the executor to Jynx’s care and placement, reached out to Cat Tales to find a forever home for this orphaned lynx.  Cat Tales staff drove to Orofino, ID last week to meet Jynx, and transported him to his new home in Mead, WA.  Jynx will take some time to settle into his new home, new animal neighbors, and become comfortable with his new humans, who are excited to get to know Jynx.  Once in the Small Cat Forest section of the park, Jynx will be housed next to our 2 year old female Canada lynx, Sibella, where guests to Cat Tales will be able to see our new arrival and admire what a wonderful addition he makes to our four legged family and education program.
“Wow, he’s huge!” said Wildlife Director Debbie Wyche when Jynx arrived at Cat Tales Thursday evening.  It’s true, he is much bigger than Sibella, and he appears to be in quite good health, something that often is not the case when we receive rescues from the private sector. 

Welcoming and Supporting Jynx Jynx will need the next month during his quarantine to slowly get used to his new home and the new faces that will be caring for him and helping him settle in.  Guests to the park might catch a glimpse of him during their tour as he grows more comfortable and curious.  We are holding an online fundraiser for Jynx which will help us cover materials for a new den box, platform, enrichment, and medical costs including vaccinations before joining the other “small” cats in his new space.  Check out our website and Facebook pages for details on the Jynx fundraiser.  Our thanks to the friends and family of Jynx’s former human, Jon, who have already been spreading the word about our facility and what we do to help with donations and support.  We thank you also for entrusting Cat Tales to provide Jynx’s forever home.
Visiting Cat Tales and Jynx Jynx will be in his temporary space for the next 30 days before moving into the Small Cat Forest.  His visibility to our guests during this first month is entirely up to Jynx.  He has plenty of space to hide and settle in, but with viewable areas should he wish to say hello.  Once his new space is ready with brand new den box and platform for him to claim and make his own, we will move him into his new forever home.  Sibella will also be moving into her new space as his neighbor, so they will have lots to talk about together as they settle in.   ​

Sibella - born May 10, 2018, came to us at Cat Tales in September 2018 when she was four months old.  She took her trip with Kachina, our puma, but where the trip was easy on Kachina it was very difficult on Sibella.  She was anxious and frustrated upon arrival, and wanted nothing to do with Kachina or most of our keepers.  

It took us plenty of time and work to get Sibella back to the personality she knew she would have.  For her first months with us she lived in our nursery, being handled by a few dedicated keepers on a day by day basis to get her comfortable with them.  As her personality developed, she moved outside near our canines, and then more recently into a large enclosure besides Kachina and our bears.  

Needless to say, Sibella has fully grown into herself!  She's a vibrant, curious little Canadian Lynx who loves to play with Kachina through their enclosure walls, follow our keepers around when they clean her house, and get scritches on her butt by passing keepers.  Sibella is loving her life in her new home!