About Wild Trax Exotics

Wild Trax Exotics is a TICA registered cattery and a member of The International Bengal Cat Society. We are located in Central Arkansas. We offer THREE different breeds of cats: Egyptian Maus, SBT Bengals, and F3 to F8 Savannahs. All with excellent bloodlines, wild looks, and gentle loving temperaments, raised in a small in-home cattery with lots of socialization with people and other animals.

Our breeding cats have been carefully selected to pass on Gentle Loving Temperaments, High Contrast Markings, Excellent Breed Type, Wild Faces, Good Health, & lots of more to our kittens. All kittens are hand raised indoors to ensure they are well adjusted and socialized to provide you with the ultimate pet! Because we are a small cattery, we do not have kittens available at all times, please inquire about availability and expected litters.

Meet the Owner, Operator, and Chief Pooper-Scooper of Wild Trax Exotics

My name is Tracy Wilson, and I have been surrounded by all kinds of animals all my life. I am one of those folks that had a natural affinity with animals from the day I was born. Wild Trax Exotics originally started out as a wild feline sanctuary located on 10 beautiful acres in a rural area of Arkansas. Before I opened my own sanctuary, I started out as a volunteer for someone else's big cat sanctuary, where I was educated in the proper handling and care of big cats and other wild or exotic animals. Yes, Lions, Tigers, and Bears! (and much more!)

After doing educational work with big cats in public venues, I learned how little the public knows about the small wild feline species. (There are 38 species of wild felines, of which only 6 are considered to be big cats. Do you know what the remaining 32 species of wild felines are?) After several years as a big cat volunteer and gaining a lot of experience, I started my own sanctuary, which focused on the smaller lesser-known wild felines species. Wild Trax Feline Refuge is a federally licensed USDA facility, specializing in small wild feline educational programs and rescue facility for small species of wild felines.

My family helps me run the sanctuary and care for all the animals. We provide off site educational programs for children's groups about small wild cats and how they live in the wild. Wild Trax is not open to the public, as I want to provide true refuge to the feline residents without strangers disturbing them in their comfy retirement homes. If you visit our Bengal, Savannah, or Mau kittens, we appreciate your respect and understanding of the resident sanctuary animal's privacy.

I currently care for 15 wild felines at Wild Trax: 8 African servals, 3 Bobcats, 2 Canadian Lynx, an Ocelot, and 1 African Caracal. I have rescued many exotic cats over the years, but since I want to maintain a small exceptional facility, I cannot accept all that come my way. My mantra for the sanctuary is “Quality, Not Quantity."

I strive to provide the best Quality of Life possible to the wild feline residents here, rather than have a Quantity of cats with bare minimum standards, as a lot of facilities end up doing. It's all too common for donation dependent facilities to simply take in more animals than they can afford to care for. I would rather have a small amount of animals that I can afford to care for myself without outside donations, who are given lots of extras to keep them comfortable, happy, and stimulated. So over the years, I have gained access to a network of owners and sanctuaries to help match each needy cat with the facility that can best meet that cats needs for a permanent home. This way, if I am not able to take an exotic cat into my facility, I can still help any exotic cat that comes my way by placing it in the best possible home via the network.

How Did I Get Involved in Bengals, Savannahs, and Egyptian Maus?

I became a Bengal & Savannah pet owner somewhere in all my sanctuary & rescue work, and fell in love with the breeds. Not only are Bengals & Savannahs stunningly beautiful, but they have many similar personality qualities as the wild felines, such as playing in water, playing fetch, their inquisitiveness and their acrobatics; without the danger of causing you bodily injury, being much gentler than a true wild feline, and not requiring any specialized care or housing. Because I do work with wild felines, I often get requests from folks wanting to own a wild feline who can not provide a proper home to a wild feline for whatever reason and they need an alternative to fill this desire for a wild feline or exotic looking pet. When I combined my love of the Bengal & Savannah breeds with my wild feline rescue work, I realized that breeding Bengals & Savannahs and providing them as pets was a great alternative for a lot of people. There are a lot of people who would like to own a wild feline but can not legally do so, simply do not want the responsibility, or cannot provide the extra work required to care and house for a wild feline. It was the perfect answer. Bengals & Savannahs are a great alternative to having a little taste and look of the wild without all the trouble and responsibility of a true pure wild cat!

I started breeding bengals in 2003, followed by Savannahs in 2005, being mentored under a friend who had been breeding bengals for many years. It is important for new breeders to be mentored by an experienced breeder. This helped me understand how the breed genetics work, how to select which cats to breed for the best traits and improve the breed, meet other breeders, and learn how to screen potential buyers for proper homes. My biggest concern at first was if I would be able to let the kittens leave or not! It's always hard to let these little love bugs go, I don't think if it will ever get easier. Once I had a become knowledgeable about the breeds, I carefully began selecting high quality bengals & Savannahs from exceptional bloodlines for breeding in order to provide amazing kittens for you with great personalities and beautiful wild looks.

Egyptian Maus

I have always admired this breed for as long as I can remember. But they are pretty rare and it is hard to come across available kittens. Most Mau breeders have very long waiting lists. I had been on one of those lists waiting for over year and still had no kitten! By chance, a friend of mine, a fellow breeder, happened to have one little male become available in 2005, and she offered him to me. I jumped at the opportunity because I had wanted to work with them for so long. I absolutely fell in love with my first Mau, and it wasn't long before I was searching for a compatible mate for him. I found him a couple of nice girls and they have all turned out to be very loving and affectionate cats.

Native Wildlife Rehabilitation

Wild Trax is also an Arkansas state licensed wildlife rehabilitation center. You can read an article from our state paper that was written about my wildlife rehab work at this link: CALL OF THE WILD. I take in injured or orphaned native wildlife and provide health care to the animals or whatever they need, with the ultimate goal to eventually release each of these animals back to the wild. This of course is a heart wrenching undertaking, as many animals are in such bad shape when I receive them, that I can sometimes only make them comfortable before they pass on. But then there are many little inspiring miracles, that make it all worthwhile.

Animals never cease to amaze me. I typically receive animals such as squirrels, white tail deer, rabbits, and things like that. Every precaution is taken to strictly quarantine animals coming into our facility and not expose permanent resident animals to diseases accidentally. I carefully keep the wild feline sanctuary residents, the cattery, and the rehab animals all separated from each other, in separate facilities, and use separate equipment in each area, to eliminate the possibility for diseases to spread or risk exposure to one of the other animal areas.

How is the Wild Feline Sanctuary & Rehabilitation Work Funded?

So with all these rehab animals and the wild feline sanctuary, how do I afford to care for all these animals AND find time to care for all the animals? The sanctuary and rehab work is expensive and requires specialized housing and care. For starters, I work from home doing insurance and patient billing for a doctor's office, so I can work my own hours around my animal's needs. This gives me lots of time to take care of the animals and spend lots of quality time with them.

I also run a website that sells specialized products for wild felines. Check it out, I have a great feline vitamin that is really good for Bengals & Savannahs, as well as T-shirts and other wildlife theme novelty gift items: Wild Trax Supply. I use the Wild Trax Feline Supplement on all my wild felines and the Bengals, Savannahs, & Maus, and have seen great results from using it. And finally, what little profit that I might earn from breeding and raising these three cat breeds also goes towards helping take care of the wild feline sanctuary and any rehabilitation wildlife that comes in and needs my help.

It is a win-win situation; I can provide Exotic Looking pets that are totally domestic to people who want a little taste of the wild in their home, and they help provide some greatly needed financial support to the sanctuary.

Other Animal Related Projects I Am Involved In...

Another important project that I am involved in....I travel to Ecuador, South America, several times a year to work at a rainforest reserve. The name of the reserve is Playa de Oro Reserva de Tigrillos. I have been volunteering at this reserve since 2003, and in 2006 I became the reserve's International Project Director. I am the main contact for the outside world to the reserve, I organize all tourist's visits, as well as various projects done at the reserve. I also do lots of fundraising for the reserve. The main purpose of the reserve is habitat preservation and to protect the native wildcat species of the area which are ocelot, margay, oncilla, tigrina, jaguarundi, jaguar, and puma. I am in the process of opening a new wildlife rescue center at another location nearby. I will oversee the wildlife rehabilitation program here, and it is very rewarding work because in most cases the animals we help here are endangered species. It is very satisfying to rescue endangered species from an illegal animal trafficker, nurse those animals back to health, and then release them back into the wild in a protected area. Both of these projects are nonprofit organizations, and they need financial support for us to keep up the important work we do there. If you would like to help out, please visit the reserve's website for info on how you can donate. You can even travel to Playa de Oro yourself to help support our efforts!

And Just For FUN.....

I have llamas too. They are the silliest creatures on earth, I think. They are so easy to care for and so much fun to watch and be around. I originally got them just to help keep my pasture grazed down because I was told they would be the most low maintenance pasture grazers I could get. And I think they probably are! But what I didn't know was how entertaining they would be. They are really goofy, very curious creatures, and have amazing personalities. On cool evenings, they get in a line and start "Sproinging" all around the pasture which is the funniest thing you will ever see!

Thank you for getting to know me and my animals, and I hope I can provide you with a beautiful kitten to become your newest (and most spoiled) family member!