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Del.icio.usSeveral of our reviewers recently received advanced copies of the Growing Up Wild Cats DVD from Animal Planet. Witness the heartwarming and marvelous journey as newborn cubs find their way through the joys, adventures, discoveries and challenges of their first days with the help of some professional caregivers.
My kids are not allowed to watch TV because I don’t want them watching commercials, so we exclusively rely on DVD’s for our viewing pleasure. Growing Up Wild Cats from Animal Planet was a huge hit from the moment it arrived. My wild animal loving 2 year old was especially enthralled by the tigers (one of his favorite animals).
There are four separate episodes on the DVD - Growing Up Lion, Growing Up Tiger, Growing Up Cheetah and Growing Up Black Leopard. Each one details live rescue animals growing up and being raised in captivity by experienced and loving people, who want nothing more than to save animals and help perpetuate these amazing species. While my kids don’t quite understand conservation yet, we are raising them to respect and advocate respect for all living things and in future we’d certainly use this DVD as a jump off point for large animal conservation. For the time being, it’s great commercial free entertainment for the whole family.
by Nicole
If you like documentaries and wild animals, then Growing Up Wild Cats is a very interesting series about various big cat rescue operations and what it really takes to care for exotic wild cats. They do not gloss over about the realities of the process either. There is death, heartbreak and a heavy dose of truth in the stories, despite the fact that they try to end each episode on a positive note.
While it didn’t hold much sway with the three year old set, the five year old was enraptured. There were many questions and he wanted to understand everything that was happening in the show. Seeing wildcats born was thrilling and he was very fascinated to learn how much work they are, and how very dangerous despite being so very cute. Growing up Wild Cats was a very enjoyable series.
by Gidge
Animal Planet has a series they call Growing Up Wild. If you have cable and children, then at some point you have probably either seen or heard of this series.
My family viewed the Growing Up Wild Cats DVD recently and the children just love it; as does their mother, of course. I think I love it for different reasons. For instance, I can use the television as a babysitter (not really, but sometimes I feel that is happening) or how about the fact my children actually learn something from a cute program they enjoy. Not like the strange, often adult like cartoons that seem to be on television today.
Growing Up Wild Cats includes stories about baby lions, tigers, cheetahs and leopards. The whole DVD is 170 minutes long with no commercial interruptions which is great for children with short attention spans. If you enjoy watching baby big cats like we do, then you and your family will enjoy Animal Planets Growing Up Wild Cats.
By Laura
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We think the message in Growing Up Leopard and the others in the series is a very bad one because it doesn’t matter how much you say, “Do as I say and not as I do,” people will watch that and think it would be cool to have a leopard as a pet.
When that show was in its planning stages the production company
called us and asked if we would purposely breed a leopard so they could film at our place. We explained the life in captivity is horrible for wild cats, even if you love them, because they are designed to roam hundreds of acres. They said the money and support we would get from people seeing us on TV would help us save other cats and that we should go against our morals to create a cub for them to use. We wouldn’t do it.
You can see Sanctuary Standards at http://www.SanctuaryStandards.com and see if the places in the Growing Up series meet the standards for yourself. As for the series, it is probably the worst things on TV when it comes to making it look like wild cats can be kept as pets and not one I would recommend to anyone.
What most people never see is the truth behind the scenes in the filming of such products and there is an excellent site that illustrates the lives the animals are forced to endure when they aren’t on TV.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/cruelcamera/video.html
Cruel Camera
Twenty-five years ago, Bob Mckeown and a fifth estate crew stunned the country with an investigative report that showed that many of the wildlife documentaries we’d grown up watching on television (remember the famous footage of the lemmings going off the cliff or some of the memorable moments from shows like Wild Kingdom?) were staged for the television cameras. As well, they revealed that animals often died during the making of movies; all for the sake of the entertainment value.
Now, Bob McKeown and an investigative team have returned to the subject to find out what has changed since the fifth estate’s first Cruel Camera documentary. What they found may astonish you.
Animal Planets Growing Up Wild Cats, is a favourite of my grandchildren. Watching with them we all have an opportunity to learn and talk with each other. We would love this.
I like jeff Corwin’s show!