comunidad inti wara yassi

It was my great joy to get to volunteer at an animal sanctuary in Bolivia this spring!  For 2 weeks I got to care for, walk, water, feed and clean up after this magnificent creature!  A puma named Gato!  He was very old and quite tame so I could scratch his ears and fuss on him all day!  Yes he would try to bite me, but he didn't try very hard!  I also got to work with the 50+ parrots, macaws and toucans for 2 weeks!  They were a handful, Gato was a dream!  I dream realized actually!  Sadly Gato passed away this July but not without taking the heart of every volunteer who ever worked with him, with him!  A great priviledge, my beautiful Gato, thank you for enriching my life.  I hope I did the same for yours.

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