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.
Tommie Girl Female Bobcat DOB appx 10/1/11 – 12/13/15 Rescued 3/6/12 On Mar 5 we got a call from the Florida Wildlife Commission asking if we could help a blind bobcat that had been reported by the Manager of the Cemex Mine. His name is Tommie and he loves the wildlife that calls…
Female Sand Cat 7/27/00 – 12/8/2015 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 10/23/00 Pat Quillen of S.O.S. Care sent five Sand Cats to Big Cat Rescue on October 23, 2000. They were born to Pebbles and Papoose who were the offspring of wild caught Sand Cats sent here during Desert Storm for their protection. Most…
Alex Male Tiger DOB 1/1/96 – 11/19/15 Arrived 12/19/08 Alex is an energetic and playful tiger who greets everyone with a hearty chuff. He loves lounging in his swimming pool and gets really excited about enrichment. Enrichment includes special food treats like turkeys or bones that they do not get every day, paper mache animals with…
Tobi Female Cougar DOB 3/1/91 Rescued 8/18/95 Died 10/22/15 at the old, old age of 24 She is the perfect example of why it never works out to make a pet of a wild cat. In her case there was a husband and wife who had lots of money, larger than usual cages and who…
Male Bobcat 4/30/95 – 8/21/15 Levi came to live at Big Cat Rescue in 1995 along with 10 other Bobcats who were destined to be the next year’s fur coat harvest. Our Co-Founder had stumbled upon a facility in Omaha Nebraska that was raising Bobcats and Canadian Lynx for the purpose of harvesting the cats…
Raindance Female Bobcat DOB 5/8/93 Rescued 5/27/93 Died July 5, 2015 Raindance came to Big Cat Rescue from a fur farm in Minnesota. We had ordered six Bobcat kittens by phone, but were told that we must pick them up in person. We traveled to Minnesota, and when we arrived, we saw a sign out…
Arizona Female Serval DOB 4/1/89 – 5/15/2015 Rescued 6/17/97 Arizona arrived at Big Cat Rescue 6/17/97 and is thought to be quite old. She is fully clawed and very aggressive at feeding time. Arizona loves enrichment time, her favorite thing is a food puzzle made out of a cardboard tube stuffed with treats and…
Simba Male Leopard 6/6/94 – 5/8/2015 Rescued 8/4/94 Simba is a male Asian spotted leopard born on 6/6/94. He came to Big Cat Rescue on 8/4/94 with his sister, Nyla, as a bottle fed baby. Simba had the misfortune of being born the wrong sex. Backyard breeders always want more females than males. Since his…
Nico Female Geoffroy Cat DOB 5/1/93 – 5/1/2015 Rescued 7/19/94 Read tributes to Nico here: https://sites.google.com/site/bigcattributes/home/nico-geoffroy-cat We had been following his story from birth and chased him through his second owner, who sent him along to Big Cat Rescue with three Bengals on 7/19/94. He arrived taped up in a cardboard box. The fury from…
Sierra Female Bobcat 4/22/1997 – 4/11/2015 Rescued 11/30/01 Sierra and her two mates, a male and female bobcat, were bred for display at the Tennessee National Zoo, but were never used because they were very shy and hid from the public. The three bobcats grew up together in a holding facility at the zoo. When…