Debbie McGillivray

Communicating with the Animals Workshop

Date: Saturday, March 27th

• 9am – 1pm: Intro to Animal Communication
• 2pm – 6pm: Deepening the Connection/Communicating with wild animals

We have had many calls about spring break and are we open? Yes! We will be open for guided tours only!!!

• Children under 3 - FREE
• Children 3-11 - $7.50
• Anyone 12 and over - $12.50

Yeah! We Rule

Dogs Rule and Cats ...

Pavillion

Tigers for Tomorrow at UNTAMED MOUNTAIN is now taking reservation for the Fall school field trips

During your class visit, we cover grade-specific learning objectives in life science and agriscience, and provide follow-up materials for your teachers upon request. Our environmental center will provide your group with trails through the habitat areas in our preserve, a picnic pavilion, clean restrooms, and professional staff. Tigers for Tomorrow is licensed by the USDA and Alabama State Wildlife agencies, and has a 7-year history of successful education programs with school and community groups.

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Beginning December - April 15 , we are open to the public no reservation necessary for unguided walk-throughs  every Saturday and Sunday year round from 9am-4pm. Park closes at 5pm. We will take reservations for private tours, groupl tours and field trips throughout the week.

Spring break- On March 17, 18, & 19 and March 24, 25 & 26 we will be giving group tours at 2:00. Gates will open at 1:30. Tours will take about one and a half hours .

Photos are permitted, tours are priced as follows chiildren under 3 are free, 3-11 are $7.50 and 12 and older are $12.50.

We do occasionally close if there are storms or if it is forecasted to rain all day. If you are thinking about coming out on a rainy day just call first, there will be a recording on by 8 am if we are closed.

Cameras and Photos: Our policy here at the preserve is no photos. Why is this? Well because first and most importantly, because we are a sanctuary, or as we like to say a preserve. We are not a zoo, there are three great zoos in the area, Birmingham, Atlanta and Chattanooga, all of which do allow photos and they are a great place to visit to take photos and support their mission of conservation and education. However, we are a preserve, our animals come from various places, some of them have had great lives prior to coming here and some of them have not. Our goal is to give the animals that live at UNTAMED Mountain a peaceful life and we will do what ever that takes, and a few times we have run across people that did not respect our policies and aggravated the animals just for a picture. So we decided at that time that pictures would not be allowed. Visitors that understand our mission and come to visit the preserve for the animals have never had a problem with this policy. We do sell photos at the gift shop and offer Guardian Angel adoptions for those who want a photo of their favorite animal. We would like to thank all of our guest who have been more than supportive of this policy and have continued time and time again to visit. Your visiting helps us support the animals and the park, and because everyone has been so kind, the Board of Director has decided to begin allowing photos for those on private tours under the supervision of a tour guide.

Target Field Trip Grants

To learn more go to Target's website

For those of you who have asked what we could use - here is our wish list:

• Hot water heater-thanks Lowes
• Wood chipper
• concrete mixer
• plywood
• exotic african mask
• Blender - thanks Ruth and Laura
• water cooler-crystal springs dispenser type Thanks Joanne and Hb

• grain: 10% all stock, 10% sweet feed, cracked corn
• hay- Thanks Buel!
• water buckets
• dish towels, towels, wash cloths
• bleech, sponges, dish soap
• tractor and bush hog
• rubbermaid tubs 55 gal or larger
• plastic totes with covers
•  4 large pooper scoopers- petco
• Pecans for the bear-Yonah
• New well for water in the preserve to get water to cats
• 10/12 inch black corregated pipe -100 feet or more we need 1500 feet
• large steel cooking pots- big cat water bowls
• any and all power tools are accepted
• presure treated 4x4's and 6x6's
• 6 inch pvc pipe - 200 psi
• washer and dryer for commisary
• propane or solar hot water heater-thanks Lowes!
• plywood/sheets of partical board
• electricty/lights in barn
• 2 fire hydrants
• gift store- we will be putting a list up soon that will let you know the supplies that are needed.
• display cases
• 2 coolers
• work golf cart/passenger cart alsoIn the next 2 years the preserve would like to become self sustainable on renewable energy, in order to do this we need  the following help.
• a solar consultant, solar panels to run the barn, caretakers faciltiy and commisary off of.
• Skid steer attachments, grappler, trencher, backhoe

Yona the Grizzly

Tigers for Tomorrow receives frequent calls, many of them urgent, asking TfT to adopt animals of all sorts. Sadly, TfT can not accept all requests due to the additional funding that would be needed for new habitats, food, veterinarian care, etc. Adoptions are accepted as Sue and Wilbur are able. All of us know they would love to say yes to all calls for help.

With the construction of the new bear habitat, they were able to say yes! to the adoption of this special 6 month old grizzly. He calls Untamed Mountain his permanent home where you can visit him. What fun this will be to watch him grow!

Read my Press Release

Come See Me

On June 18th Tigers for Tomorrow at Untamed Mountain opened the first section of the West Side Preserve. Cowboy says, "Come see me. I am the second largest tiger at the preserve and have been waiting patiently for this section to open. You’ll also get to see my neighbors Boris the Great, a recently adopted African lion along with Dakota, a friendly mountain lion. The new wolf pack habitat is in this section, so you can view “juveniles” Tanke, and Wamble, with their adult wolf teachers in action. We are all so excited to see you and be seen!"

The West Side Preserve will eventually be the main entrance to the Tigers for Tomorrow preserve. The second phase of the West Side Preserve is the under-construction bear habitats, soon to be home of Cody and Ranger, the newly adopted black bear cub.