AdvoCat Newsletters

The AdvoCat Newsletter is sent out monthly to our subscribers and posted online for free.  Please preserve these as they are a month by month history of the sanctuary.

Advocat 2016 10

Advocat 2016 10

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Happy Halloween from Big Cat Rescue! Lions, Tigers, and Haunted Houses…OH MY!! Watch as some of our big cats enjoy their Halloween enrichment. Happy Halloween!! If you are wondering what happened to the September AdvoCat, so am I.  There’s just been so much going on at Big Cat Rescue that I ran out of…

Advocat 2016 08

Advocat 2016 08

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Today is the last day to help end the abuse of cubs! Today is the last day to help end cub abuse by asking USDA to ban contact with all species of wild cats of every age at TigerRescue.com  The breeders, dealers, exploiters and their customers are all trying to get USDA to leave things…

Advocat 2016 07

Advocat 2016 07

Meet Spirit Feather July 20, 2016: Another 2am success story! When this little bobcat was separated from her mom, and found in the middle of the road, good samaritans turned her in at a clinic in the middle of the state. Who are you going to call at 10:30 pm when you have a bobcat in…

AdvoCat 2016 06

AdvoCat 2016 06

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Good News!  Good News! Thor the Bobcat is released back to the wild.  Thor had been hit in the head by a car and survived nearly overwhelming odds against him.  See the video of this most unusual release at: https://bigcatrescue.org/thor/ Grrrreat New Videos There have been 13 grrrreat new videos posted since the last…

AdvoCat 2016 04b

AdvoCat 2016 04b

There has been so much happening for the cats that we had to break the monthly AdvoCat Newsletter in two.  This is Part B.  Here was Part A: https://bigcatrescue.org/advocat-2016-04/ Welcome Hoover Tiger Hoover was rescued from the Peruvian circus by Animal Defenders International when they secured a ban on using wild animals in circus acts. Watch his journey…

AdvoCat 2016 04

AdvoCat 2016 04

The Best Week for Big Cats in Decades! This week has been epic for big cats, thanks to all of YOU who have roared out to protect wild cats and their cubs. 4/3/2016 USDA cracks down on abuse of cubs under the age of four weeks.  In response to a 2012 legal petition filed by…

AdvoCat 2016 03b

AdvoCat 2016 03b

There is so much news we had to break it into two AdvoCat newsletters this month!  Read part 1.  Here is part 2: THE SAD STORY OF HOOVER THE CIRCUS TIGER IS ABOUT TO HAVE A FAIRYTALE ENDING… Hoover Tiger will arrive in April to his forever home at Big Cat Rescue!   We are…

AdvoCat 2016 03

Speak Up to Protect This Baby Tiger Larry Wallach from New York has been exploiting tiger cubs and charging the public to hold them for over a decade. In 2012, USDA filed a complaint against Larry Wallachfor a litany of animal welfare violations, including failure to provide vet care to the cats and stressing out his…

AdvoCat 2016 02

AdvoCat 2016 02

Happy Valentine’s Day We have so much happy news to share with you! First there was the successful release of the rehab bobcats Rain and Dancer! Last month we were happy to report that Phoenix and Captiva had been successfully rehabbed and released in the January AdvoCat.  See the great release footage of Rain and…

AdvoCat 2016 01

AdvoCat 2016 01

Hope You Are Having a Happy New Year! We are very happy for two recent graduates of our bobcat rehab program.  Check out the release of Phoenix and Captiva in this video: Phoenix and Captiva are starting a new life journey as free and wild bobcats. Watch as we release them in their natural habitat….