On a different note, I know we previously were talking about the declawing mystery at Black Jaguar White Tiger. panthxra had pointed out that a black jaguar named Cielis(or Cielo) had very deflated looking paws, characteristic of a declaw. She was Eduardo’s first and is his favorite cat, meaning she arguably gets the most direct contact. I’ve gone through almost every video of this jaguar(yes I have been doing this for two hours and am thousands of posts deep on his instagram) and have not seen any sign of her claws as an adult. In the above video, you can see how she clutches the bowl around the edges, no claws. There’s this video of her playing with the same yellow jaguar(who has he claws). She doesnt flash her claws once, even towards the end of the video when her right paw clutches the top edge of the ramp.
In this video you can see how flat her paws are. Then this video where she grabs the top of his head but we don’t see so much as a tip of her claw. I would keep going but I have so many of the thumbnails displayed at this point that the videos aren’t loading anymore.
Now I know when this came up before someone has said that Cielis was rescued declawed already. Except…. Shewasn’t. And here’s another video of her where she appears to be a bit older (couple months?) but still has her claws….so when was she declawed?
So is Eduardo declawing his cats? First partaking in the pay to play schemes he condemns(like going and getting pictures taken with the father of the yellow jag in this video), now this?
Just another reason why I do not trust this place. I know he loves and is passionate about these cats and seems to take moderately good care of them, but all the direct contact, the breeding, the buying, and the interspecies interactions are not helping the cause. If he really wants to do his best for these cats he needs to change a lot of his practices.
And as a side note, the sheer number of comments about how people “want one too” and “want to cuddle them” that I came across in this search are significant enough. It shows why it’s a problem for these really popular big cat people(-cough-Richardson-cough-) to make the entirety of their public image be of them cuddling these cats.
