Champlaine
Champlaine Lynx
1986-1998
1986-1998
ROSE Female Caracal DOB 3/28/97 – 7/31/13 Rose is such a friendly caracal that she was featured in Jack Hanna’s show “Wild Adventures” for a demonstration of photo tour techniques. Guests love looking at the characteristic black tufted ears of this little caracal. Rose, like many other wild cats that were raised to become…
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…
Adonnis Leopard 3/1/90-1/13/2010 Male Leopard Adonnis came to Big Cat Rescue on 5/27/95 from Oklahoma, along with Venus and Bagheera. He was a pet leopard that had been declawed. His owners then moved and didn’t have room for him in their new location. This is just one of so many reasons that leopards don’t make…
SHASTA Female Serval 4/16/91 – 10/30/10 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 6/27/97 Shasta arrived at Big Cat Rescue 6/27/97 with Peaches and Alpha. She had been retired from breeding. She has an amazing metabolism and can eat as much as a cougar without gaining weight. She was discovered to have a rare form of…
Big Cats Depend on Fur Ball Success TAMPA – Cougars, bobcats, lions and tigers— more than a hundred are living out their lives at Big Cat Rescue in Tampa. And one of the newest arrivals is pretty rare, even by big cat standards. Freckles is a 16-year-old liger, a cross between a lion and a…
Maverick Male Siberian Lynx Date of Birth: 5/97 Maverick arrived on Easy Street on 6/24/97, at three weeks of age, from a Canadian fur farm. Died 11/29/1999 He was so badly infested with parasites that he was deaf and blind. He was immediately sponsored by Cheryl and Neal Stiebling, who christened him “Snoofus”, since he…