Sama the Jaguar

Sama's mother was shot when he was about one month old and he was sold as a pet. He spent his first few months in an apartment in La Paz, and, at the age of six months when his owners realized they could not control him anymore they tried to sell him to a circus.
Fortunately for him, it was reported to the police which seized him and brought him to the refuge.
In his first year in the refuge he had a collar and a volunteer would take him for walks or swims all day. At the age of a year and a half when he matured, it became too risky to handle him and since then he lives in his own cage.
These days he is been taken out of his cage on a daily basis for most hours of the day. A large sum of money was raised to build him a new enclosure in the refuge's new land and building is planned to start in a few months.
Volunteers who wish to work with Sama are required to commit for at least one month and they usually stay and work with him for much more.