HUWAA RETURNS HOME

The Journey Back Home:

Formerly Miss X, Huwaa was now three and half months old and was a handful-destroying flowers and plants at the zoo. She was taken away from mom Cathay on her 3rd day to be reared in a secure environment in a zoo to prevent the same fate that happened to her sibling the year before (taken away by a bird of prey). Time had come for her to return to Laohu Valley Reserve. Her new name came from a competition held jointly by Save China's Tigers and Sina.com. "Hu" means "tiger", "Waa" is the name of the female ancestor that begot the world’s human population.

On May 14th, we got the truck packed and ready early in the morning at 8am. To make sure Huwaa didn't have too drastic of an environmental change, her human mom Matty and her husband -frrom the zoo-accompanied us, in order to settle her down and also to teach our own staff at Laohu Valley on how to look after her.

Huwaa, having had plenty of experiences of traveling in the back of the
truck (I won't tell you how much the vet runs have cost us!) got into the
travel kennel happily. A bed sheet covered the kennel so she couldn't see
outside the behicle so she quickly fell asleep. The whole 8 hour journey
went very smoothly, with a couple of feeding stops at gas stations where the cute little tiger certainly attracted a few curious onlookers.

(To read the full story, visit TigerLi Blog: http://tigerliquan.blogspot.com/2011/05/huwaa-returns-home.html)