MADISON COUNTY: Hard times shutter wildlife refuge

Owner scrambling to find homes for animals

By Richard Massey

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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Jim Orr stands with Feather, a 7-year-old mixed-breed wolf, on Monday on his Witter Wildlife Refuge. A bank has foreclosed on the property, forcing Orr to find new homes for animals he has kept there.

Jim Orr stands with Feather, a 7-year-old mixed-breed wolf, on Monday on his Witter Wildlife Refuge. A bank has foreclosed on the property, forcing Orr to find new homes for animals he has kept there.
Photo by Jason Ivester

Moving out is difficult, especially when a family includes three wolves, three deer, a gray fox, a raccoon, a pack of dogs and 14 birds.

Jim Orr, owner of the Witter Wildlife Refuge, is trying to pack up and leave before he’s evicted by the Madison County sheriff’s office under court order after a bank foreclosed on the property.

Monday morning, a distressed Orr said he’s certain most of the refuge’s animals have a place to go. But he has yet to find a home for a 7-year-old wolf named Bear - a burly arctic-timber mix that was rescued as a cub in Hot Springs. He said he’s also having trouble figuring out what to do ...

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Northwest Arkansas, Pages 7 on 11/10/2009

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huntsvilleeaglefan says...

This is crap!!!!!!!!!!!!

November 10, 2009 at 12:54 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

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