If "Joe Exotic" and Netflix's Tiger King taught us anything, it's that the illegal trade of big cats is a booming business in the United States. Thousands of animals are bought and sold every day, many of whom don't live long enough to see their first birthday.
A little more than two years ago, The Wildcat Sanctuary rescued a mating pair of tigers from an illegal animal farm. While there, they discovered a weak and abandoned cub lying among the rubble and decided to document its first year of life.