My 10 yr old has a favorite stuffed animal that is a snow leopard. I am making her a b'day cake with a leopard transfer sheet on the sides and would like to make a small leopard figure for the cake. Does anyone know of how to do this or can you provide a link to a tutorial? I guess it could be a lion and change the coloring/spots... thank you so much. 
Here's one for a lion:
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-fondant-lion
Also, you could get some Sculpey or other clay books from the library and see if they have a leopard in there you could copy with fondant or GP.
I'd google it opening your search up to clay or other mediums. A lot of the times those can be translated to cake stuff.
I have found that using cereal treats as the base then using 50 % moldeling chocolate and 50% fondant works well to do you sculpting I have done many horses using this technique. I hope this helps 
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You might want to look at this baby jaguar and get an idea http://cakecentral.com//gallery/1954732
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