CENTER POINT, Ind. - A western Indiana animal refuge is asking hunters to donate venison to help feed the more than 200 exotic cats housed there.

WTHI-TV reports the Exotic Feline Rescue Center in Center Point uses between 3,000 and 4,000 pounds of meat a day. Refuge owner Joe Taft is asking hunters to bring deer carcasses or other major pieces of deer leftovers to the facility about 20 miles east of Terre Haute.

Taft says refuge workers also pick up dead livestock free of charge from farmers, but says the process is labor intensive and expensive because of gasoline prices.

He says that without government spending the refuge must rely on community support.

no way this place is feeding 2 tons of meat a day...somebody got their facts wrong

A mature adult male tiger eats 12lbs of meat a day! If you do the math x200 that's 2400lbs a day!

I have been to this place and they do have a couple of hundred plus big cats.

Heck all they need to do this time of year is drive down the roads and pick up road kill.

i hunt to feed my family, not their kitties

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I hunt not far from this place. Kinda crazy walkin out of the woods in the dark and can hear the lions roarin and moanin