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Skydive to SAVE BIG CATS!       DIVE TO SAVE LIVES! … Five of our AWESOME INTERNS will be skydiving from 15,000 feet to help raise money for construction of a much needed NEW hospital for the sanctuary! The hospital will play an instrumental role in helping us provide the very best care we…

Carole Baskin Takes on Big Cat Fight with Exotic Pet Owners

This is an article from 2007 that animal abusers like to point to as if it was some sort of investigative treasure.  It was nonsense and if you take the time to check out the numbers at the end of each misleading or totally untrue  statement you will see why in the numbered responses below the article….

Animal Advisory Committee Resignation by Carole Baskin

Animal Advisory Committee Resignation by Carole Baskin   Summary of recent events leading to AAC resignation Recently you may have seen reports on the resignation of Big Cat Rescue founder and CEO Carole Baskin as chairperson of the County’s Animal Advisory Committee. First, we would like to thank the many of you who have emailed…

HumaneWatch

HumaneWatch

What’s Up With Humane Watch Attacking Big Cat Rescue? By Howard Baskin, JD, MBA, Advisory Board Chairman of Big Cat Rescue HumaneWatch is a project of the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) and is entirely dedicated to spreading disparaging information about the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) with the goal of drying up…

Kirby Van Burch Retires Tigers

Kirby Van Burch Retires Tigers

Kirby Van Burch Retires Tigers to National Tiger Sanctuary https://www.ozarksfirst.com/story/d/story/magicians-tigers-moved-to-sanctuary/41607/Z_D7qfs0UE2zoWVNPGMxnQ Find out more about the USDA violations here:  911 Animal Abuse Kirby Van Burch   National Geographic Exposed Kirby Van Burch   https://channel.nationalgeographic.com/wild/animal-intervention/videos/a-magicians-wildcats/ Alison Eastwood, daughter of Clint Eastwood, and sidekick, Donald, head to Branson, MO to meet with Kirby Van Burch, a magician who uses…

Trade in Bobcats and Lynx 2004-2008

Trade in Bobcats and Lynx 2004-2008

2014 60 Bobcat Pelts Seized California Department of Fish and Wildlife Warden Nick Buckler recovered pelts from 60 poached bobcats and gray foxes. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife) Tracy Lee Shultz of Courtland, south of Sacramento, was fined $5,000 and ordered to forfeit the pelts worth nearly $15,000 according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife….

Florida Panther Update June 19 2014

Florida Panther Update June 19 2014

Florida Panther Update June 19 2014   Photos available on FWC’s Flickr site: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjxNqYsp.   FWC Commissioners receive Florida panther update   Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) biologists provided an update at the agency’s June Commission meeting in Fort Myers regarding Florida panther research and conservation programs. Due to the success of panther-conservation efforts…

Importing Generic Tigers

Importing Generic Tigers Is it really illegal currently? Rescinding the generic tiger loophole will stop the virtually unregulated inbreeding and cross breeding of tigers who are already in the U.S. because the breeder would have to submit an application showing how breeding the tiger would save tigers in the wild and thus serve some conservation…