G.W. Exotic Animal Park Rescues 24 Animals in First Week of 2011

WYNNEWOOD, OK, January 11, 2011 (Press-News.org) The Nation's largest refuge for exotic animals, open to the public, is starting the New Year out rescuing record numbers of animals and 2011 is only one week underway.

Starting the New Year with a sudden trip to Ohio to rescue 11 exotic cats including 2 Mountain Lions, 4 African Servals, 2 Caracals, 1 bobcat and 2 Canadian Lynx. "The owner had a sudden heart attack and was not expected to live," said Joe Schreibvogel, Director of the G.W. Exotic Animal Foundation in Wynnewood Oklahoma. "His wife called the park the day before New Years and pleaded for help to re-home the cats as she was unable to care for them properly."

Joe Schreibvogel gives credit to the people who come forward and call them for help instead of letting a situation get so bad that it affects the health and well-being of the animals. The park sent out a crew on a long non-stop trip to Ohio to help the couple out and bring all the animals back to the refuge in Oklahoma.

The park, located just south of Oklahoma City, just added another 24.6 acres of land to the 16 acres it already had, making it 40.6 acres to expand onto.

Most refuges and sanctuaries are requiring people who own exotics to pay to send them their animals. One particular facility in Tampa, Florida will not do any rescues unless they are high-profile cases or come with large sums of money. The G.W. Exotic Animal Park, has never turned down a rescue of any kind and is one of the only facilities in the country that rescue any species of exotic animal and does not require any form of payment to place an animal at the park. It is also a no-kill facility, which means as long as the animal can live out a healthy and pain-free life it will remain there the rest of its life.

Before the first week was over, another call came in for the park to rescue 13 llamas, requiring another team to head right back out to drive across the state to help yet another elderly person unable to care for their animals.

The total number of animals rescued for the first week of 2011 comes to 24 animals in need of help from the G.W. Exotic Animal Park.

The park is nonprofit and it is supported by donations from people all over the world. If you would like to help the rescue and re-home effort log on to gwpark.org and help a cause worth helping.

The G.W. Exotic Animal Park is a not for profit 501-c-3-org, for more information visit us at www.gwpark.org