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A kiss is just a kiss
Ana Julia Torres kisses Jupiter, an African lion, at her Villa Lorena animal shelter in Cali, Colombia, on Friday. Jupiter was malnourished when Torres rescued him from a circus six years ago.

wow!
those paws are as big as her head.

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Here's more on that shelter.

Colombian teacher nurses abused lions, other wild animals back to health


CALI, Colombia: Through the bars of his cage, a 110-kilogram (240-pound) African lion named Jupiter stretches his giant paws around the neck of Ana Julia Torres — and plants a kiss on her puckered lips.
It could be a kiss of gratitude: Since Jupiter was rescued six years ago from a life of abuse and malnutrition in a traveling circus, Torres has fed and nursed him back to health at her Villa Lorena shelter for injured and mistreated animals.
"Here we have animals that are lame, missing limbs, blind, cross-eyed, disabled, some even raped. They come to us malnourished, wounded, burned, stabbed, with gunshots," said Torres, 47, who relies on donations and her own modest teacher's salary to run the facility in a poor neighborhood in the southern city of Cali.
Torres said her work rehabilitating animals began more than a decade ago when a friend gave her an owl that had been kept as a pet. Later, when she asked her students to bring their pets to school, she realized many families illegally kept wild fauna from Colombia's biologically diverse jungles in their homes.
The number of animals under her care grew, and today Jupiter is one of some 800 recovering at Villa Lorena — everything from burned peacocks and limbless flamencos to blind monkeys and mutilated elephants.
orres said many were rejected as infants by their parents in the wild or found abandoned on the streets of Cali, a city of 2 million.
Others were rescued from cruel treatment by owners. One mountain lion kept illegally as a pet had its two front legs cut off by its owner after it clawed a family member's face.
Torres said that of all the animals she has cared for, she is proudest of having rescued Yeyo, a now-deceased spider monkey who had suffered violent, drunken beatings at the hands of an alcoholic owner.
"The monkey would scream every time it was beaten, until one day the police came and found the wall covered in blood," she said. "We cried with anger when we heard how it had been treated."

Full story..


http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/ ... helter.php

what a 'saint' of a woman...all those mutilated and abused animals.
if only there were more people like her in the world....who knows
maybe someday if we all pray hard enough.

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