Of Innocence: Goodness | Purity | A Child
There weren't any children around to take photos of for innocence, and a tiger probably isn't the first thing that springs to mind for the prompt. However I believe there is an innocence in a wild animal - there is no deceit, it is pure in its own way, living life in the wild.
While we were in Denver we visited the Wild Animal Sanctuary: For the past 33 years, The Wild Animal Sanctuary has responded to more than 1,000 requests from private citizens and government agencies to rescue animals from across the United States, and other countries throughout the Western Hemisphere. Our resident animals were abandoned, abused, illegally kept, or were victims of other terrible situations. The vast majority of our rescues come from situations where private citizens have tried to keep exotic animals as pets - and were confiscated by law enforcement officials for being kept in illegal or abusive situations. Others were surplus animals from zoos and other wildlife facilities, where they faced euthanasia due to over-breeding, overcrowding or closings due to inadequate finances.
Many of these animals have lived in terrible conditions, some never have seen the sky, or felt the ground under their feet, some have been kept in horse trailers, or cages with concrete floors for their entire lives until their rescue. When you visit the sanctuary you are not at ground level. Visitors walk along a boardwalk located high above the animals so as to not encroach on their territory.
It was a bleak, blustery day when we visited, so many of the animals - very sensibly - were inside their safe enclosures, however there were still quite a few out and about. This tiger is one of a small group of tigers that are gradually being introduced into a larger environment with other tigers.