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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2094820" data-attributes="member: 3649">One of the coolest things I ever saw was a big cat show at the Atlanta Renaissance Festival. Now, this was a different kind of thing. You have this big flat sandy area. Then benches that go up to about three feet from the sandy area. No bars. No cage. No walls. Just them and the cats and some leather leads. No small kids are seated within the first five rows or so and they check before bringing out any of the cats.You get a very close look at the cats. Closer than most zoos. It was amazing. They had a snow leopard. I'd never seen a snow leopard in the flesh before. It's one of the most beautiful animals I've ever seen. He was also a pretty pushy cat. He knew where that treat bag was and clamped his huge claws-out paw at the trainer's hand to actually restrict it's movement; the trainer could reach into the bag for a treat, and transfer it to the leopard. That was it. They had a tiger, which just loved to gnaw on one trainer's leather boots. A couple of the smaller cats... and they had a young jaguar. They commented on actually how vicious the jaguar is. They had him on a short chain leash, unlike even the large cats. Every single time the second trainer, in the course of giving the lecture, presented his back to jaguar, the jaguar went for him, claws out.</blockquote>