Behind The Sanctuary | Shen Meets His Dad!

In this episode of Behind The Sanctuary, we are mixing our family of Snow leopards. Shen and Laila have been living together in their half of the enclosure for the first 10 months of Shen's life but now we are mixing the family as one with the hope of this being a more permanent transition!
Follow our keepers Briony and Simon as they supervise the mixing of these cats!
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[@AleanKasandra]

They are an embodiment of pure beauty. I love them. I love how from one look at their faces you can immediately tell who is who and her features are so much softer than boys'. Mesmerising.

[@Angel-with-an-IQ]

As a lover/passion of big cats - These Snow Leopards have always had my heart for Decades. I live in Africa & have never had the means to travel to England to see them in person. (Oh how I would love to go to the Himalayas to see them). Alas in my next life. The point of all this is to thank THE BIG CAT SANCTUARY for their videos through the lives of all their little ones that they so generously share with us. I cannot thank you enough for the joy you have given me. May 2024 bring you everything you require to take care of your cats.

[@giovanna722]

What a lovely post! Indeed we are all lucky to benefit from the Sanctuary's videos.

[@BU4UGaming]

Hope to see more tiny fluffy additions to this beautiful family in the future! 😍

[@smn4481]

Waiting to see Inka meeting her dad

[@christinehuff5009]

Thanks!

[@janetriddick1806]

Great Job , GOD BLESS THE BIG CAT SANCTUARY 🐈 😻 🐈‍⬛ ❤️ 🐈‍⬛️ SHEN IS BEAUTIFUL 😍

[@Kadir_1990]

Shen really has grown into a big snowleopard.

[@pexster1988]

A.C.A.B. - All Cats Are Beautiful. 😻 P.S. Some are scary 🙀😅

[@janetriddick1806]

What a BEAUTIFUL FAMILY 🐅 🐯 🐅 🐯

[@trishaustin4101]

The big cats are the most beautiful animal species: Tiger, Jaguar, & Snow leopards specifically. I see their tails are very long, I assume for balance. Absolutely magnificently beautiful animals

[@paulwalker6297]

Fabulous, beautiful cats. You are SO lucky to be able to interact with these fantastic Snow Leopards. It's also great to know that at least for THESE cats at the BCS, they're safe from those who'd kill them just for their coat. Thank you all ! 🐈‍⬛ 🐾 💖 🥰 x x x x

[@Izabelle710]

Aww I love them ❤️ Guys you are so lucky to have this job 😩 I’m jealous 😭

[@Ehan57]

It's also hard so don't be too jealous

[@annacarter6559]

Lucky?? They work long long hours, lift, care, grieve, it takes their absolute devotion.

[@xzwbxooxford979]

This specie is so majestic, powerful, and gorgeous, thank you so much for your amazing job. 💖💝💓💕💞🎶🎼🎵🐾😻😻😻😻

[@Hulk2k6]

"Giz us some pocket money!" "Why do I get the feeling you're not the only one saying this?"

[@justynawojtunik7863]

Thay are so beautiful😍🤩but I wish to recognize which one is which😭🤣🤦‍♀️

[@najibyarzerachic]

Installing some bigger rocks or concrete structure in the enclosure will be helpful. They are more adapt to climbing rocks than trees. A cave or sth like that would be a bonus.

[@nekokaitou4027]

I never realized how long the tails of snow leopards are. It's nearly as long as the rest of their body. Also a quick question: what does it mean when Shen and Jargo showed their fangs at each other? At 2:17 and later around 4:01

[@GT-mn3bx]

I forget what it is called but lions do it too when trying to smell.

[@lorrainehall157]

Their tails are long as they act to give them balance in the wild when chasing prey down steep cliffs

[@macheadg5er]

@@GT-mn3bx flehman response

[@fullfacemy5170]

They open their mouth to get more odor since they have olfactory organ in their mouth too. Cats make that face when they smell something interesting and want smell more.

[@acheronalexander]

It's not showing teeth it's Flehman's response. They are using special organs in their upper jaw to smell pheromones. Lions and other big cats sometimes have their shole tongue out making the "stinky face" he is just chrcking out a scent mark

[@just4mygrl413]

They are so beautiful!! 🥰❤❤ I love snow leopards!

[@rizaaguilar2480]

Beautiful Gorgeous Animals 🥰🥰🥰👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ILUVCATS❤❤❤❤

[@SimonFoxGuitar]

Beautiful Shen suddenly grew up!

[@abcdef_0220]

멋진 순간의 영상을 공유해 주셔서 감사합니다~🙏🙏👍👍

[@tanfrederika2123]

Snowwwyyy..maybe soon snowy habitat too.. all white Can i have one? Doll?

[@judybeverley-harvey5899]

Enjoyed every minute, hoping everything was going to work out!! I just 💕 these's cats!!!!!!💕💕😺🎄

[@nataliebaker808]

Beautiful animals ❤

[@ps4games164]

Such animals need larger space.

[@stephanieparker5049]

Gorgeous family❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@kirill_dreamer74]

♥️🐆🐆🐆♥️ They have enormous paws, and tails😍

[@MarcelitoRecords]

Thank you for sharing your awesome work BCS ❤️

[@fingerprintmediaUK]

Can’t wait to see this!

[@HS-lj5wl]

I love this family 🥰🐆🐆🐆♥️♥️♥️

[@geraldbingham7985]

Absolute beautiful👏🏻😍❤️

[@Louiscypher93]

I saw them in personal recently. So fluffy!

[@aidyil]

They’re so beautiful i wanna cry

[@lauramurray9148]

These animals r absolutely mesmerizing 🐆

[@sureshg2885]

Nice co

[@natashakingston8302]

This is lovely

[@mpound97]

My favorite big cat! ❤ ❤

[@user-jj8mn1wf8u]

Они великолепны

[@deriismayandi1985]

Majestic cats

[@09RHYS]

Omg 🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@user-ed3xf6it3i]

The snow leopard has excellent motor brain power to walk across rocky cliffs, and its thick limbs and tail are to withstand the harsh scaffolding. if? If possible, I want you to make something like simple rock climbing. It's impossible considering the cost and environment. Snow leopard I wanted to bring it back to my original life❣️

[@johannarocho3040]

Beautiful animals!

[@duckgiraffe2803]

Beautiful

[@l...]

60FPS please Making the movement smoother

[@manofernando9918]

He sure is better than the Shen in Kung Fu Panda movie.

[@ObamAmerican48]

So beautiful.

[@BitchyQueen69]

Hi,these particular cats are just too beautiful! 🥰Love them!❤❤❤ Do they have a larger enclosure to roam around in and run,play,hide?

[@michelelacolla2478]

P R E T T Y K I T T Y! Wonderful creation. 😘

[@IrenESorius]

🥰🥰

[@Salomessanctuary]

Beautiful creatures. Is it because of COVID you are wearing mask or you dealing with animals? 🙏

[@giovanna722]

Yes, snow leopards have died from covid..

[@ruthatta7422]

Wow, you realy do an excellent job and I can see and feel how much you love then and care for then! thanks a lot!! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@lynnkuck6416]

I agree 👍💯 with you'll a 💯💯 percent i love 💕😘💕😘 the big cats yea i would love that job id really fall in love with all of the big 😺😺😺 cats.for sure,I know if i caught some one trying to 🤕 hurt a big 😺 cat for their fur i would lose it i would have really do something to them.These animals are to beautiful ❤️😍 Johnny Kuck from New Orleans

[@lynnkuck6416]

I forgot to say I wish I had the 💰 I would take some of them home Johnny Kuck from New Orleans

[@joeishere500]

if i was rich i would get them a snow machine so they keep cool in the summers...

[@sureshg2885]

Nice rakice ok

[@m53goldsmith]

This would have been much better without the bgm and with the sounds the cats were making as they were getting acquainted.

[@giovanna722]

I found it frustrating that the music covered the sounds of the animals. Even the tiniest sound is so evocative. Thank you for the upload.

[@luvcats120]

These videos are great and the snow leopards are beautiful. It would be even better if you could do the narration without a mask on to make it easier for your subscribers to clearly understand what’s been said. At times, it can get garbled, especially if the person is talking fast. Thanks for the consideration! 😊❤

[@giovanna722]

It would be easier to hear her if the music weren't turned up quite so loud. I wish there were no music at all, to hear the natural sounds of the animals.

[@rosbar4752]

Such small enclosures.

[@sureshg2885]

They ok

[@izharfatima5295]

What are they doing in cages?

[@SN-sk8co]

You want these snow leopards back with the captors where the sanctuary acquired from? Stupid?

[@apmoln1815]

My parents hated me

[@motherdear3733]

Do you know anything about cat behavior? Why wold you force contact between two male Snow Leopards?

[@blitzblutz]

I love how they introduce the cats to their fathers but this would never happen in the wild. The males are solitary animals. Why are we trying to change these hunters into little humans???

[@KaruSnep]

Isn't it due to the risk of the father seeing the cub as weak and doing something similar to lions? I'm not sure if thats at all the case with snow leopard but maybe its just a legal requirement

[@user-zl6wv5zk8m]

Оnly anhuman can kill snuw bars😢

[@rosbar4752]

When filming these animals no music is necessary. It actually is annoying.

[@mrlevithe6277]

I want too watch snow leopard not I woman please 😅

[@Canaanite_Roman]

Very strange knowledge appear...cats lives alone in Nature. But naw we understand - it's not natural behaviour! When they have food free, without killing, they can live like lovely family. The home cats do behaviour the same way.

[@barbarmeow4076]

My suggestion is please just add naration and keep filming the leopard like how natgeo used to do, no need to cut every damn minutes to show the zookeeper face, we already enough seeing human species, especially those who looks average.

[@azamatserikbayev1562]

Allahü äkbär!