Fishes Helping Big Cats | Big Cat Rescue

Mosquito Fish to Protect Big Cats

You know how annoying mosquitoes are and if you watch our Facebook LIVE walkabouts, you know that a lot of the big cats suffer seasonal allergies due to mosquito bites. Huge shout out to Melanie D. who recommended Mosquito Fish to put a permanent end to the suffering of the cats and their keepers.

Hillsborough County has a program for homeowners where they give away a small number of fish, but when I called and explained that we are dealing with an 18 acre lake, a pond in Vacation Rotation and nearby swamps, they said I needed to go straight to the farmer they get theirs from.

Carole contacted him and he didn’t know how many fish it would take to make a difference, but said he would sell them to Big Cat Rescue for .25 each and they come in bags of 250. I’m guessing we need a LOT of them so I set the goal to $700 which will buy us 2800 Mosquito Fish. He said they breed fast and don’t die in the winter, so even if it does’t make a huge impact this summer, it could be a lasting solution to protect the cats and their keepers.

Using the above photo, video, and info Carole set up a fundraiser page on Razoo at https://www.razoo.com/story/Fishes to raise the $700.

UPDATE August 11, 2017

Fish GOAL MET! THANK YOU!

A few days ago we told all of you about a project we wanted to try to help cut down the number of mosquitoes bothering the cats. We wanted to raise $700 to be used to purr-chase 2,800 Mosquito Fish to stock Tiger Lake and Vacation Rotation Pond. Yesterday, the goal was met!! In fact, a total of $755 was donated for this project. Carole will be picking up the fish soon and is going to try to broad cast that live.

Viewers suggested bat houses, too so I asked Carole about it and she said that we had just gotten some new ones and those should help as well.