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.
ESMERELDA Female Serval 3/1/92 – 10/10/2011 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 4/30/95 Esmerelda came to Big Cat Rescue in April of 1995 with her mate, Medicine Man. Their previous owner gave them up because the Medicine Man had terminal cancer. We named him Medicine Man and despite all our efforts with both traditional and holistic…
DES-PURR-ADO Male Bobcat DOB 4/29/96-10/7/2011 Des-PURR-ado is another beautiful example of the exceptional coats that these hybrids have. His coat is very soft and fluffy and beautifully patterned. Des-PURR-ado is very outgoing towards keepers and seems to be just as much an attention hound as Alex. He lives in a large Cat.a.tat with lots…
Freckles the Liger 1/1/93 -7/5/2011 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 12/19/2008 Most ligers suffer from a condition called Giganticism where they grow to over a 1,000 lbs in the first couple years of life. Since it is un natural for lions and tigers to cross breed (being that they are typically not on the same…
DANCES WITH WOLVES Female Canada Lynx 7/16/91 – 6/17/11 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 1/23/93 Dances With Wolves had been bottle raised and sold to someone who expected her to bond with him. His cats do commercials and ads and she was not inclined to do either. Living on Easy Street now, she can do…
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 they…
Bobcat Rescue Rescued August 16, 2007 Died December 19, 2011 Ace sat down slowly on the concrete because her frail old body had lost the padding of well muscled flesh. She was old and her sight was failing, but still she stared out toward the bay and remembered… She had lived here her entire life. …
Big Cat Rescue’s Margay Kahlua Female Margay Date of Birth: 6/6/82 – 1999 Kahlua came to Big Cat Rescue on 6/6/93, with André, a male Margay. She was supposed to be six years old when we got her, but one of our volunteers had known her for at least twelve years when she lived at…
Freddy Cougar DOB unknown Rescued November 19, 2010 Died May 2 , 2011 The Story of Freddy, the cougar Back in the 90s, farmers Al and Kathy Abell, decided to start a breeding facility called Cougar Bluff Enterprises. They set up cages in their back yard in Elizabethtown, IL and filled them with a couple…
PEACHES Female Serval Date of birth 4/18/1994 Date of rescue 6/27/1997 Date of death 4/8/2011 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 6/27/1997Peaches arrived at Big Cat Rescue on 6/27/97. Servals, indigenous to Africa, are capable of leaping ten feet into the air to catch a bird in flight. Peaches spent her young life confined to a…