When cats die we move them off the /catbio page to this category because many of our supporters want to still access the pages and leave tributes to the cats in the comments.
Female Serval1/1/00 – 2/11/22Rescued 5/25/10 A pet Serval was confined to a tiny, two room apartment for the past 10 years. She was housed with a domestic cat, presumably for the purpose of breeding Savannah Cats which can fetch as much as $26,000. Her life was about as boring as can be imagined since she…
Simba Savannah Cat 4/1/05 – 12/4/21 12/4/2021: Simba Savannah Cat Has Been Euthanized. A few days ago Simba Savannah cat began acting weird, including tearing up his blankets. Thinking he might be bored inside, where he’d been brought in to keep him from the mosquitos that caused his allergies, and with the cooler weather, we…
Lioness 2/3/2001-11-23-2021 Rescue 11/30/01 The Queen is Dead For 20 years Nikita was known, the world around as the Queen of Big Cat Rescue. Her loyal subjects numbered in the tens of thousands who watched her daily on her Explore.org cams and other LIVE webcams from Verkada and Nest. We had to say goodbye to…
Female Tiger Born: 1/1/1996 Rescued: 9/28/2011 Died: 9/16/2021 at the age of 25 Click this button to hear a short summary of Amanda’s story. Amanda is the timidest of the three tigers that have become known as the Texas Tigers or the Texas Trio. She is very shy, even years after being rescued, she still…
Female Ocelot5/22/96 – 7/30/2021 7/30/2021 Purr-fection Died Last Night If ever there was someone who wrung every drop out of life, it was Purr-fection Ocelot. She passed away last night at the age of 25 and in doing so had lived three years past any ocelot I could ever remember. Right up until the end,…
Update 4/2/2021 Sadly we had to euthanize Sapphire Tiger tonight. She had significant increase in her kidney values to end stage values. She didn’t have any signs of an infection. Her blood work in 2019 was bad and even worse later in 2019 so we expected it would be her kidneys today. Her kidneys were…
Female LeopardBorn 6/17/1997Came to Big Cat Rescue 6/27/1997 Died 5/4/2020 Armani and her sister Jade were always fun to watch! Both were very playful and had goofy personalities. Armani has been known to greet tours and chat with those who passed her by. She absolutely loves paper enrichment, blood cicles, and is known to follow…
Natalia Female Amur Leopard 4/6/01 – 4/27/2020 She was 19 when she was euthanized for bladder cancer. Big Cat Rescue Collaborates with Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium to Bring a Jaguar and Leopard to the Sanctuary December 13, 2017 For the second time in less than a week, Big Cat Rescue has new cats arriving…
Tiger Lilly Female Bobcat DOB 4/30/95 Rescued 6/6/95 Died 4/9/2020 The photo above was taken by one of her keepers, Mary Lou. Tiger Lilly was merely two months old when she arrived at Big Cat Rescue. She was rescued from a fur farm in Minnesota along with twenty-two other exotic cats, which included bobcats and…
Brooksville Wild Bobcat Rescue, Othello WILD BOBCAT RESCUE – Feb 23, 2020 – At 9:56 am the Hernando County Sheriff called saying a bobcat had been hit by a car and couldn’t use his back legs. They agreed to stay with the cat and keep people from harassing the bobcat until we could get there….