FAQs

These are questions most people ask about Big Cat Rescue. Why do some people hate Big Cat Rescue? Find out here.

Tiger vs Elephant

Who is smarter; a tiger or an elephant? Ron Kagan, director of the Detroit Zoo, in a recent CNN Morgan Spurlock piece, that did a good job of raising the question as to whether zoos should exist, said when people come to a zoo they should expect to see animals “thriving.”  Good term.  Some years…

5 Things It Takes to be an Animal Advocate

SMITHTOWN, NEW YORK – (April 15, 2013) – According to the American Veterinarian Medical Association, 36.5% of households own dogs and 30% own cats. An estimated 40,000 dogs are subject to dog-fighting each year. Thousands of cases of animal cruelty are reported each year with thousands estimated to go unreported. Approximately 5 to 7 million animals…

What is a Tigon?

What is a Tigon?

  The tigon is a hybrid of a male tiger and a female lion, and is less common than the liger, a hybrid of a male lion and a female tiger.   For all the tigon’s rarity, the first citation of that word in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1927, while the first citation of a…

White Tigers and Ligers

The White Tiger Fraud Did you know the only way to produce a white tiger is through severe inbreeding of brother to sister, father to daughter and mother to son? Did you know that there is no such species as a Royal White Bengal Tiger? If you didn’t know that, don’t feel bad, you were…

Breeding and Selling

There is NO reason to breed tigers (or any other big cat) for lives of confinement and deprivation.  The only sanctioned international breeding plans for exotic cats are called Species Survival Plans (SSP) and they are ONLY carried out in accredited zoos. Ron Tilson, director of conservation at the Minnesota Zoo and coordinator of the…