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News for the month of February 2003

The Filming of our 3rd Educational Video

As many of you are aware from reading our previous Chronicles, the Tiger Homes Sanctuary has embarked on the production of an "Educational Video Series". In the hopes that we can instill an interest to learn and protect wildlife to an even more diverse audience, we are creating a series of short educational videos specifically geared towards children and the national school system. Each of these video?s is also accompanied with a teachers guide or curriculum filled with projects and lesson plans. The videos will be offered to the school system as well as on our GIFT SHOP shortly. As always we greatly need and appreciate your support of the Sanctuary by your donations and purchases of our GIFT SHOP items.

I truly believe you all are going to really enjoy these videos. They are filled with fact after interesting fact of some of the world?s most amazing wildlife. Just don?t make fun of my acting debut in our 1st video, "LEMURS: Tails From the Canopy." In this video, we bring our viewers into the habitats of the Sanctuaries resident lemurs for a detailed lesson on lemur behavior, social structure, diet, identification and physical traits separating lemurs (Prosimian's) from other primates.

In our 2nd video, "Florida's Wild Future", we take a little field trip to visit with John Jones of Wild Florida Productions. John is a respected expert on educating people about Florida wildlife, and is a notorious otter handler. In this video, we teach our audience about Florida Panthers, Alligators, Crocodiles, Hawks, Rattlesnakes, Otters and other interesting native creatures.

Our 3rd Educational Video in our series is one that David and I were dying to do. I am sure you can guess the subject matter? If you guessed CATS, you are correct! As I just mentioned, David and I were just dying to do an educational film on the Sanctuary?s resident Tigers, Lions, and Caracals including a visit to John?s and the Miami Metro Zoo and their Cheetahs. I personally was extremely Fired Up, because in this video my Co-Host was David. Together, David and I take you up close, close, close, to learn and interact with our unusual family members.

With out doubt, this is going to be our best video yet. Our producer and camera man Nate just gets better and better. Not to mention much braver to film our big cats. On this video we not only had Nate?s expertise, but that of Clayton Dutton of INNER CIRCLE STUDIOS. Together Nate and Clayton spend hundreds of man-hours compressing and editing our films into a professional documentary. David and I really thank and appreciate all of their extremely hard work and hours these two put into this project.

I can guarantee you all are going to love these videos. They will be available on our GIFT SHOP soon. In the meantime, keep on watching and learning. Get involved, expose and teach your children.

Remember, there are many ways to help the cause. Here are a few.

1) Tell everyone you know about the website. By increasing the number of visitors, we increase the awareness of the danger these wonderful creatures face.
2) If you have a website, link to us - http://www.tigerhomes.org/
3) Submit our site http://www.tigerhomes.org/ to any webcam sites you may visit.
4) Make a donation to the sanctuary. There is an area on the gift shop for those who want to contribute.
5) Purchase items from the gift shop. They make great gifts and are for a worthy cause.
6) Adopt a pet. It's a great way to virtually own one of the sanctuary animals.

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Remember, our main mission is to spread an interest in saving wild animals and wild places but we can't do it alone.

Story by: Jason and David