Big cage for a big cat

While I was at Shy Wolf I ended up helping Mark who has been with Shy Wolf since it started up. He had me cleaning one of the Florida panthers cages, luckily the one that was declawed. There are two sections of the cage that are seperated by a cage that has a door that is just a door that is on a string that you can pull down to open the door and release it to close the door. The closed off the door and I went in to one half of the cage while the panther was in the other. The entire time the panther just sat atop one of the jungle gym like things the cage and just stared me down. Every time I would get closer to the panther it would growl at me and show its teeth. This was very intimidating even though there was a fence separating us, but being alone in the cage while this huge animal is just watching is still terrifying.