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.
Tigger Tigger the ginger tabby has been at Big Cat Rescue for his entire life. He spent his latter years as the office cat and was greatly loved by all who knew him. 5/1/96-11/23/14 Miss Kitty was his mom and he never knew his dad. His mother helped foster bobcat kittens here, so Tigger grew…
RAMBO Male Jungle Cat 2/22/99 – 10/13/14 Rescued 12/5/99 Rambo came to Big Cat Rescue on 12/5/99. He was bred for the pet trade. His owner had sent him to live with her daughter who died unexpectedly and his primary caregiver became the 12 year old grand daughter. She and her relatives agreed that…
Cody Male Cougar DOB 1/1/96 – 10/1/14 Rescued 1/21/00 Cody and Missouri were rescued as a result of a divorce, in which they became the unwanted and abandoned dependents. They arrived here on January 21, 2000 and were filmed for Jack Hanna’s Wild Adventures which aired on May 6, 2000. Cody is very handsome. He and…
SHERE KHAN Male Bengal/Siberian Tiger DOB 12/20/94 Rescued 3/12/95 DOD 8/27/14 If you saw The Tiger Next Door on Animal Planet, then you saw the horrid conditions at the facility owned by Dennis Hill in Flatrock, Indiana. The Tiger Next Door didn’t air until 3/25/2010 and it was about USDA taking away Hill’s…
TRICK E Male Amur Leopard Cat DOB 4/15/01 DOD 7/27/14 Trick E is one of the only Amur Leopard Cats born in this hemisphere since the year 2000 according to ISIS. These cats have been recommended for phase out by the Felid TAG to make room for “more important cats”. There were only 11 left on this…
Kimba Kimba was 20 years old when we had to say, “Good-bye” to her. The images below on rocks were from where she was rescued. When to Euthanize a Tiger At Big Cat Rescue we have a general decision tree that we and our vets use to determine when it is time to euthanize a…
AMAZING GRACE Female Ocelot DOB 5/1/92 –6/11/2014 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 9/27/96 Amazing Grace was reported to be a three-year-old female ocelot when she arrived on 9/27/96, but appears to be much older. Her ears were very tattered because the place where she lived before had cats with common walls; meaning that one…
MR E Male Leopard Cat DOB 6/30/00 – 5/27/14 We quit breeding cats in 1997 when our Co-Founder disappeared. We spent the next 3 years building better Cat-A-Tats for our 200 residents. We neutered and spayed all of the bobcats, cougars and lynx first. We had a pair of Amur Leopard Cats who…
NYLA Female Leopard DOB 6/6/94 Rescued 8/4/94 DOD 3/16/14 Nyla came to Big Cat Rescue with her brother, Simba, on 8/4/94. She was a product of the entertainment industry, which only wants perfect looking models. Because she was cross eyed, she was unwanted. She gets very jealous if her brother Simba is getting any attention…
Cypress Update: 3/11/14: Thanks to our wonderful SkipAHolics, who keep a constant eye on our hospitalized cats, we were able to detect that Cypress the bobcat was straining to defecate again. She went in to Ehrlich Road Animal Hospital to be examined and it was clear that she is never going to heal properly and…