Big cat animals. The initial Captive Wildlife Safety Act (CWSA) was signed into law on December 19, 2003. To address problems associated with the increasing trade in certain big cat species, the CSWA regulations were strengthened by a law passed on September 17, 2007. The big cat species addressed in these regulations are the lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, clouded leopard, cheetah, jaguar, cougar, and any hybrid of these species (liger, tigon, etc.). Private ownership is not prohibited, but the law makes it illegal to transport, sell, or purchase such animals in interstate or foreign commerce. Although these regulations seem to provide
USS Wild Cat (1862) in April, the schooner was transferred to the Union Army on 15 April 1865. Apparently returned to the Navy within three months time, "Wild Cat" was sold at Charleston on 28 July 1865. Her subsequent fate is unknown. USS Wild Cat (1862) USS "Wild Cat" (1862) was a captured Confederate schooner acquired by the Union Navy from the prize court during the American Civil War. She was put into service by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. "Wild Cat"—a wooden-hulled schooner captured by the Federal Navy in