This beautiful little lady is Jasmine.

She is one of the most friendly cougars I have ever worked with. She and her brother were an accidental litter and pulled from their mother really late. They started out being totally petrified of humans. Jasmine was the first to decide that these strange creatures weren't so bad. Shaman decided the same shortly after. Both were hand raised, indoors, and have been incredibly social ever since!

Jazzi has a particular game she likes to play with folks daring enough to enter into her domain. She will orbit around to the far end of her cage, wind up the little turbine engine, and then launch at full speed, and hit you at somewhere just less than mach two at a relative altitude of chest-height. At about eighty pounds, she if a very formidable missile indeed! Of course, her entire intention is to have you catch her, flip her upside-down, and frizzle her underside. She will go to any lengths to get attention!

Jasmine may not be very large, but she has the biggest motor of all the cougars. Drifter's cage is about 60-feet from hers, and she can be easily heard from that distance. She's also very expressive, and has the most ear-piercing chirp! If you're not paying enough attention to her, or gods forbid!, giving more to someone else, then it gets even louder!

Jazzi's a wonderful little lady with a heart of pure gold!

This picture was taken 24-May-03. The image was taken with a Canon EOS 10D and the EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens. The original was taken at full frame of 3072x2048x24b, ISO eqv 400, 1/500 shutter, f/4. This image was rotated and then cropped a little and shrunken down for space conservation.

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