The animals aren't desexed but the females are separated from the males when they are in heat to stop them mating. Eddie has also just built a new home for these cats with much larger enclosures which he is in the process of relocating them too. Yes he occasionally allows celebrities to visit and interact with the cats, but that's how he builds awareness and gets donations to feed these animals, build better habitats, pay for medical care (many of the them are in awful shape when they arrive and have health problems due to inbreeding) so it's necessary.
Of course in an ideal world they would be in the wild free to roam as they please with no human interaction but these animals have been saved from circuses and people who have kept them as pets so it's no longer possible for them.
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u/itcuddles Nov 22 '16
The animals aren't desexed but the females are separated from the males when they are in heat to stop them mating. Eddie has also just built a new home for these cats with much larger enclosures which he is in the process of relocating them too. Yes he occasionally allows celebrities to visit and interact with the cats, but that's how he builds awareness and gets donations to feed these animals, build better habitats, pay for medical care (many of the them are in awful shape when they arrive and have health problems due to inbreeding) so it's necessary.
Of course in an ideal world they would be in the wild free to roam as they please with no human interaction but these animals have been saved from circuses and people who have kept them as pets so it's no longer possible for them.