vijayawada the telugu doctor widely known as jaguar kumar who was forced to move to neighbouring poland leaving behind his two pet big cats in ukraine is back in that country with a different plan dr giri kumar patil told toi over phone that he is back in ukraine after several months he is staying in a dormitory on the west side of the country he is in a bid to make all the arrangements to shift his pet big cats a black panther and a rare amur leopard to a safe place from his house in donbas in ukraine an area under the russian armys control he is visiting different banks and applying for loans to buy a place for himself and his cats by mortgaging his house in donbas he said as the house is in a conflict area banks are denying him a loan interestingly he has set a september deadline for things to settle down if i cant find a place for my big cats and myself by then i will return to india leaving the cats in the custody of a zoo or an animal rescue organisation patil said he is now in talks with a zoo official in lviv city in ukraine and a few animal rescue organisations reportedly the zoo officials asked him to pay between 30000 and 40000 for taking care of the cats for six months the officials also told patil that if he could find a safe place for his cats on his own within six months the cats would be returned to him or else they would be kept in the zoo foreverpatil had engaged a local farmer and his neighbour in donbas as the caretaker for his cats before he left ukraine and moved to poland in search of a job unfortunately he couldnt find any job and the expenses of both patil and his cats are being met by his family members in andhra pradesh the caretaker has been mounting pressure on patil stating that he wants to leave the wartorn country with his family as soon as possible however patil convinced him to stay till september so that he could make arrangements to relocate his cats earlier i did not want to abandon my cats and run for my safety but the situation has worsened and now i have no option other than find a new and safe place for me and the cats or send them to a zoo or a rescue centre patil said the 42yearold patil who hails from tanuku in west godavari moved to ukraine in 2007 to study medicine since 2014 he had been practising as an orthopaedic doctor at a hospital in severodonetsk which was shut after the war began