The Extreme Home Makeover folks took as its project the decrepit home and small animal cages of a wild animal sanctuary. “Forever Wild Animal Sanctuary” in California has been taking in redundant and ill-treated animals, which are mostly the unusual large cats.
The Extreme Makeover team had employed hundreds of volunteers. The Sponsors supplied earthmoving and construction equipment. Joel and Charmain Almquist and four daughters from teen to toddler, were all on a vacation in Costa Rica.
The team pulled down the house and built a new, larger home with solar panels on the roof. Each child’s bedroom had personal space. The house became a secure sanctuary and change of speed. The local community college and university offered four-year scholarships for each of the children.
The team also took one of the tigers to cure its paw injuries and performed a surgery from “de-clawing” and relieving it of stable pain.
They built a learning centre for educating the public. The learning centre will enable Forever Wild to bring in school tours. There are new terrariums for the exotic (venemous) snakes. It also has a food preparation area and large fridges, so that the family can prepare 300 lb of meat a day for their animals. Each animal had a new sign with its picture, name, and story.
They made larger cages with more space for the animals and an animal playground for the tigers. They wove cat beds from indestructible used fire hoses.
The builders and volunteers collected $50,000 for maintaining the learning centre. It was a fitting reward for the years of hard work and caring put in by the Almquists.
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