Big Cat Rescue will soon be home to some big cats that were abandoned in Kansas.
A volunteer veterinarian and two staff members went to Kansas last Saturday to pick up three bobcats, two lynx and a serval cat.
The animals were seized from a dilapidated home in Atchison, Kansas. Officials said they were abandoned in their enclosures without food or clean water.
Also rescued from the home were one tiger, two cougars and two skunks.
Officials with Big Cat Rescue said Kansas law currently prohibits keeping dangerous regulated animals like big cats as pets.
"However, several provisions render the law virtually ineffective. Specifically, the law allows people who have a U.S. Department of Agriculture license to maintain an inventory of dangerous animals," Director of Public Relations Susan Bass wrote in a press release Monday.
Big Cat Rescue worked with the Human Society of the United States, In-Sync Exotics and the Kansas City Zoo to rescue the animals.