Erika Majdová with her daughter Dáška travel to the Ostrava city to become soon substitute parents of two young lynxes. This year was very fertile for lynxes in this ZOO. The female of the Eurasian lynx, from which we adopted cubs, had four offspring. Two males and two females. It is uncommon because in the wild nature the female usually breeds two cubs.

Immediately after arrival it was clear that we work with absolute professionals. The ZOO was huge, the animal yards were clean, and the animals were in good care. We were surprised by the amiability of the administration of the ZOO. Our lynxes were taken away by three nurses and the main zoologist Jirka Novák. They had to be really careful in the yard because both parents ranged around nervously and growled. However, everything passed without complications and the pair was taken away. We called the female Líza and the male Muro. We removed the lynx cubs to the guest house in a pannier. The cubs growled at us thus the feeding was really difficult, they did not know to drink from the bottle and they were successful in biting through all three teats. The first two days they drunk only small amounts of milk. We were afraid that they would become weak. After two weeks we tried to feed them during they slept so that we dropped milk to their mouth and it worked much better.