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FunFest Productions, Inc is an event production company in Michigan that had regularly brought Marcus Cook’s atrocious “White Tiger Discovery” sideshow to their music festivals and carnivals over the past few summers. The advertisements for one of their upcoming 4th of July festivals advertised the tigers as “back by popular demand”, so Big Cat Rescuers emailed…
2016 Animal Lover Dream Vacation Winner Every year we pull from the hat one of our supporters who has signed up for the Animal Lover’s Dream Vacation. This year’s winner was Mia Voss and she’s bringing her friend Courtney Smith Kramer, since the vacation is for two people. This could turn out to be as big…
Big Cats On The Run!! Everyone at the sanctuary would like to extend ROARING Big Cat kudos to Advocat’s Miki Y. and her running partner Yung Hae C. in recognition of their amazing accomplishment in having run and successfully completed the Boston Marathon in support of the magnificent creatures that call Big Cat Rescue home!…
Fires were sweeping across Florida in the direction of the sanctuary in 1999 due to drought conditions. At that time the fire department warned us that we were on our own because we were surrounded by woods, not human habitation, and they wouldn’t be bringing their fire trucks down the pot hole ridden, quarter mile…
Transparency Is Critical at Sanctuaries and Zoos As I was watching the inept way the Palm Beach Zoo was dealing with the death of a zookeeper, it made me think about the way we always try to be completely transparent about what happens behind closed gates at Big Cat Rescue. The very day our critics, those…
There are only 2 Reasons Why Zoo Keepers Are Killed by Tigers There has been a failure in the safety measures to keep tigers and zoo keepers apart, or The zoo keeper doesn’t understand their relationship with tigers or any other big cat. There is a lot that can go wrong, from failing latches,…
To Celebrate Mother’s Day, Will You Help Us “Mother” Our Foster Kittens? Did you know that Big Cat Rescue fosters domestic kittens until they are old enough to be adopted? In the last 3 years our interns and volunteers have mothered literally hundreds of foster kittens! This includes mommy cats with babies, bottle feeder…
JUST A FEW SPOTS LEFT TO JOIN BIG CAT RESCUE FOR BINGO AT HAMBURGER MARY’S THIS SUNDAY NIGHT! Join Big Cat Rescue at Hamburger Mary’s in Tampa (Ybor City location) for Bingo to benefit the cats this Sunday evening, April 3, at 7 pm. We’ve done this a few times in the past and it is always a blast…
“I’ll pay you $500.00 if you will turn around and go back to help DNR rescue that bobcat!” I was desperate, because I know how most of the staff, at Department of Natural Resources agencies across America, feel about bobcats. They are just competitors to the hunters who want to shoot the “game” animals themselves….
Today Apache Bobcat was seen by Dr Liz Wynn. We removed a stubborn mat from his tail and did diagnostics. He looks pretty good for a bobcat who will be 21 in a couple of months. Video to come soon, but if you saw the procedure LIVE on our Windsong Memorial Hospital webcam, and loved…