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.
TY Male Serval DOB 6/1/93 – 1/24/13 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 6/18/98 Ty came to Big Cat Rescue on 6/18/98. His previous owners had become worried that Ty, who has all of his claws, would harm their young children. The breeder had told them that if they raised Ty with their infant son…
WILLOW Female Siberian Lynx DOB 5/6/94 DOD 1/3/2013 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 6/1/94 Willow (on the left) was born at a fur farm in Canada. We had bought all of the kittens the farm had and they were shipped here in crates so small that the kittens could not move. The little wire crates…
KANAWHA Female Siberian Lynx DOB 3/1/89 DOD 11/20/12 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 1/11/94 Kanawha arrived at Big Cat Rescue on 1/11/94. Under the care of her previous owner her health had began to deteriorate causing her to become extremely thin. When she arrived she was put on a healthy diet which includes whole…
ENYA Female Cougar 12/9/97 – 11/18/12 Enya was born at the sanctuary back before we knew that none of the cats in private hands could serve any conservation effort. She was bottle-raised and leash trained from a very young age. Enya was filmed, when she was just 10 days old with their mother, by…
Rainbow Bridge Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of…
PURR-SISTANCE Male Ocelot DOB 5/25/96 – 9/15/12 PURRsistance and his twin sister PURRfection were born at the sanctuary before it was known that no privately held exotic cats would ever be able to help preserve the species due to the inability to tract them back to the wild. This little ocelot earned his…
Skip Male Bobcat On 9/13/12 Skip the bobcat was discovered having a violent and prolonged seizure and foaming at the mouth. Dr. Wynn was contacted and the staff were instructed to give him medication that would hopefully ease the seizure. Unfortunately his seizure was too severe and he died shortly after. Gale gave him…
Skip the Bobcat Rescue I was right in the middle of sending an email to LaWanna about some promotions she was dreaming up for the ChatBigCats.com site when Honey Wayton, our gift shop manager called and relayed an urgent message. A woman had called to say they had found a bobcat alongside the…
CLEO-CAT-TRA Female Bobcat DOB 4/14/96 DOD 8/24/12 Cleo-cat-tra is very shy and secretive. She is also very possessive of her territory, so much so that when Keepers are cleaning her Cat.a.tat, she will quickly run over and try to protect her leftover food or feces which she buries in large piles of leaves. She…
SELENA Female Bobcat DOB 4/24/95 DOD 8/24/12 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 6/6/95 Selena came to Big Cat Rescue in June, 1995 with her brother, Levi, and nine other Bobcats who had been destined to become fur coats. These kittens were the best of the sixty kits that had been produced that year and were…