Big Cat Rescue is Caring for Big Cats and Ending the Trade

Join us in the freedom fight for exotic cats!  They were designed to live free; not in cages.  The number one cause of abuse is the practice of posing with big cats and their cubs because it creates a flood of discarded cats that serve no conservation value and end up dead or in conditions that are often even worse.  You will find us to be completely transparent in our values, care of our 60+ wild cats, and finances.

Big Cat Year End Update

2018 has flown by and we are SO grateful and thankful for your continuing support of our cats and sanctuary throughout the year!

As you plan your year-end, tax-deductible charitable donations, we hope you will consider a gift to the exotic cats at Big Cat Rescue. The first $12,500 in donations will be matched dollar for dollar by Larry and Pam Trissel, so your gift will do twice as much good for our big cats.

2018 will go down in our history as the year our rehabilitation program for wild-born native Florida bobcats was bursting with bobcats – 12 total, including a record 8 orphaned kittens. We began 2018 rehabilitating and later releasing four adult bobcats (Cooper, Teuci, Aphrodite and Noel). In the spring we took in three orphaned bobcat kittens from two rescues and gave them names befitting St. Patrick’s Day (Clover, Lucky and Shamrock). And this summer we rescued five more orphaned kittens from four separate rescues and gave them patriotic names (Alpha, Bravo, Echo, Foxtrot and Tango). As we end 2018, all but three of the 12 have completed our rehabilitation program and been released back into the wild to live free…where they belong. We hope to release Alpha, Bravo and Tango early next year.

This year we will put your year-end donations to good use for our rehab bobcats. Florida is very hot and humid so we would like to purr-chase a number of shade trees to go around the perimeter of the two newest rehab enclosures as well as around our rehab recovery building (where injured bobcats recover after surgery).

We also have a crucial need for two new sets of heavy-duty washers and dryers – you’d be amazed at the massive amount of laundry we do in order to keep the bedding clean for cats confined in the hospital, recovery building and rehab recovery building!

Thank YOU so much for your amazing support of our sanctuary and cats! We hope the cats can count on you one more time in 2018 as you make your year-end, tax-deductible charitable donations. It is only because of your financial support that we can continue to rescue abused, neglected and abandoned exotic cats and rehabilitate injured and orphaned wild Florida bobcats.

Best wishes from your Big Cat Rescue family for a purrfectly healthy and happy New Year!

If you prefer to send a check, please mail it by December 31st to Howard Baskin at Big Cat Rescue at 12802 Easy Street, Tampa, Florida 33625-3702.

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