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.
INDIAN SUMMER Female Bobcat DOB 1989 Arrived 10/31/96 DOD 8/9/12 Indian Summer and Shiloh had lived together for seven years and never produced kittens so when they arrived here we left them together since they had shared a cage their entire lives. Their former owner was a cat breeder in Davie, Florida who decided that…
MISSOURI Female Cougar 1/21/00 – 7/20/12 Missouri is very cross eyed because most exotic cats in the pet trade have been purposely inbred to create a dependent animal contrary to what nature intended. Missouri and Cody were rescued when the became unwanted after their previous owners divorced. They arrived at Big Cat Rescue on January 21, 2000…
Male Bobcat DOB 4/17/95 – 6/1/12 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 6/6/95 Crazy Horse came to live at Big Cat Rescue along with Levi, Two Toes, and eight other Bobcats in June 1995. They had all originally been destined to become part of a fur coat harvest. Instead of being hand-raised, he was raised…
Rufus the Baby Bobcat Kitten Est DOB 10/1/11 – 4/26/2012 Rufus the blind bobcat kitten was believed to have been hit by a car on Dec 4th in South Carolina. He weighed just 4.2lbs, had a broken jaw, split canine and was comatose. After he woke up from the coma he was pretty loopy,…
LUCKY Female Serval DOB 4/1/93 – 4/20/12 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 6/6/93 Lucky arrived at Big Cat Rescue on 6/6/93 from an auction in Okeechobee, Florida. Although she is hissy she has never shown any real hostility toward people. She is happy to spend her time chasing lizards and lounging under her large trees….
Cookie Tigress 10/10/94 to 3/12/12 Rescued 12/2008 Cookie, the tigress, was rescued from a backyard cage in Mississippi in December of 2008. She came from David Mallory’s failed sanctuary called Cougar Haven in Gore Springs, MS. At its peak, Cougar Haven was home to 38 big cats. There was never much local support for the sanctuary…
Modnic Female Siberian/Bengal Hybrid DOB 1993 and died 3/12/12 from mammary cancer. Modnic and Trucha were thought to be siblings. We do not know their actual history, however they were born in the same year and shared the same enclosure. Trucha has been bred nearly to death at Savage Kingdom and has since died from…
HALLELUJAH Male Cougar 9/16/93 – 2/5/12 Hal came to Big Cat Rescue on September 20, 1993 from an auction where people dump animals that are unwanted. Hal has always been quite mischievous. Keepers have to very careful when cleaning his feeding block and water bowl as one of his favorite things to do is grab the…
SIMBA Female Siberian Tiger DOB 6/8/94 – 11/24/11 (Thanksgiving Day) Simba was owned by a woman in Ohio who had declawed Simba and had the cat’s large canine teeth pulled. Supposedly this made Simba “safer” to be with people. The woman would chain Simba to the ground with short chains so the tied down…
Zoul Male Serval 3/1/1997- 10/29/2011 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 4/29/2011 A woman in NY was battling cancer, her sister had run off leaving her with her three children ages 6-17 and her home was in foreclosure…. She also had five servals living in her basement! She would never be able to rent an apartment…