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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There are lots of ways to help save big cats from abuse and abandonment.  Some are free and some have a cost.

WAYS TO HELP FINANCIALLY

Donate

Sponsor a cat / Become a member

Set up a monthly donation

Leave a Legacy:  Remember the cats in your Will

Big Cat Rescue Wish List

Amazon Wish List  (sign up for free w/ Smile.Amazon first & Amazon will donate, too!  see below)

See how we spend your money here http://bigcatrescue.org/about/finances/

Here at Big Cat Rescue, literally 100% of your donations are spent directly ON THE CATS!!! We are able to adhere to that strict policy because the other sanctuary expenses, administrative expenses, salaries etc come out of tour fees and other sources of income. We are extremely serious about donations being used JUST FOR THE CATS!

Because of adhering to that strict policy regarding donations, and all of the other ways Big Cat Rescue is transparent in our operations, we have earned Charity Navigator‘s highest 4-star rating for “sound fiscal management and commitment to accountability and transparency” EVERY YEAR since we were first evaluated by them in 2010.  Here is a quote directly from their rating letter “Only 7% of the charities we rate have received at least 4 consecutive 4-star evaluations.” Big Cat Rescue has done it for all these consecutive years.

WAYS TO HELP AT NO COST

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

With an operating budget of approximately $3.5 million/year, of course Donations and Memberships are critical to our ability to care for the cats. We cannot exist without this financial support. But you can make a very significant difference in other important ways as well. There are many ways to support our cats and help end abuse that cost nothing. Some are actions you can take or avoid. Others are ways to make purchases you already make in ways that result in funding for the sanctuary.

SIGN UP FOR AMAZON SMILE

A wonderful way to support the cats at no cost to you is to go to your Amazon.com account and sign up for Amazon Smile to have Amazon donate a portion of your purchases donated to Big Cat Rescue.

Did you know every time you make a purchase on Amazon you could be donating to Big Cat Rescue at no cost to you??

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You can automatically help feed our cats at NO COST TO YOU when you select Big Cat Rescue as your charity on Amazon Smile and shop Amazon Smile instead of Amazon.com.

Over $372,000 has been donated to Big Cat Rescue through Amazon Smile to date!

AmazonSmile in the Amazon Shopping app

How to turn on AmazonSmile in the mobile app

1. Get the app

Download or update to the latest version of the Amazon Shopping app on your phone. You can find it in the App Store for iOS or Google Play for Android

2. Join AmazonSmile

If you are not already an AmazonSmile member, simply sign up at smile.amazon.com and select your favorite charity to start generating donations, at no cost to you.

3. Turn on AmazonSmile

Open the app and find ’Settings’ in the main menu (☰). Tap on ‘AmazonSmile’ and follow the on-screen instructions to turn on AmazonSmile on your phone.

AmazonSmile in the app is not available for iPads and other tablet devices
To shop AmazonSmile on your tablet, type smile.amazon.com into the browser.

AmazonSmile benefits

Same products, same prices, no cost to you

AmazonSmile has the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping as the Amazon you know.

Maximize your impact

Support your favorite charity with every eligible AmazonSmile purchase from your phone or web browser.

Generate donations

AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of all eligible purchases to your favorite charity when you shop.

Support your favorite charity

Choose from over a million local and national charities. Change your charity any time.

Amazon’s privacy policy does not let them tell us who signs up for Smile, but we’d love to have you email us at finance@bigcatrescue.org to let us know so we can thank you.

Meantime, THANK YOU to EVERYONE whose names we do not know who have chosen to support the cats through their normal Smile.Amazon purr-chases!!  YOU ARE Making A Difference!!

Watch & Share our Videos

When you share our videos you ARE HELPING!!

Yes, watching and sharing our videos is really HELPING Save Cats!

Sharing our videos is helping introduce more people to Big Cat Rescue, the cats, and our mission through your own posts.  When you share our educational videos and others watch it YOU are helping spread the word and helping teach others about important cat issues.

Sharing our videos is encouraging social sites to show our postings to more people.  Example, when a video on Facebook receives a lot of attention Facebook will then put it in even more people’s feeds which further increases exposure for the video.  On YouTube when a video gets a lot of attention YouTube will sometimes even add that video to the suggested videos on the side of the page which also increases viewership.

The Google Ads that display on the YouTube videos are actually raising a little bit of money for the cats, so every time you share one of our videos for your friends and family to watch YOU are not only helping pass on our mission and giving your friends something either educational or fun to watch, but you are also helping raise funds for the cats.  Sometimes, when people watch a “Just For Fun” video that YOU have shared they will go to our channel and watch additional videos.  Again, this helps the cats and our mission.

Learn more about this at:  bigcatrescue.org/share-youtube-video/

Post a Review

Please post your reviews at Facebook,  Google Places,  TripAdvisor, Yelp and Charity Navigator, as that helps others know about us and helps counter balance the 1 star reviews that animal abusers fraudulently post on those sites to bring down our overall ratings.

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Other Actions you Can Take

BECOME AN “ADVOCAT”

Be a Big Cat Rescuer!

Sign up for our emails and action alerts and never miss an opportunity to help a cat in peril here

Sign up below to find out how you can get involved, no matter where you live.

Bobcat_LittleFeatherYou can make an enormous difference by signing up to receive our email alerts and taking action by voicing your support for legislation and your opposition to abusive exhibits in our easy online system.

Click here to learn about becoming an Advocat.

To see current issues and take action now visit CatLaws.com.

One of the biggest impacts that animal lovers can have is to guide the conversation when it happens. This is how we do it:

1. Set up google alerts for words like tigers, cubs, lions, zoo, circus, fur, etc.

2. Sort through the results daily and find the ones that are really about cats and not Tiger Woods, the Detroit Lions, etc. and read the articles.

3. Join the conversation and steer it in the right direction. ie: explain why people shouldn’t attend circuses that use animals, or wear real fur or how having your picture made with a cub results in lions and tigers being over bred for that purpose, exploited and then discarded or warehoused.

Don’t bother getting into debates with the animal abusers and don’t make it personal. Just deliver the facts so that people who don’t know the issue can understand what they can do to end the abuse. Everything you need to know about what to say is here:  http://bigcatrescue.org/abuse-issues

You can download and print these images as posters and fliers to get the message out:  http://bigcatrescue.org/posters/

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Visit the sanctuary. Revenue from day tours, kids tours, feeding tours, keeper tours, photo tours and private group tours covers about half of the cost of caring for the cats. (We are currently closed to the public due to COVID)

Volunteer on site at the sanctuary.

Volunteer remotely by becoming an “Advocat”. Help stop abuse and support better laws by joining thousands of other big cat lovers in making our voices heard.

Become an Intern for three months.

Send us items on our Wish List.

Join our Legacy Society to remember the cats in your estate planning.

See how you can investigate and expose abusers.  Be a Saber Tooth Sleuth. When you see big cat abuse take photos and post them and your report on 911 Animal Abuse site

Use your Social Networking to help build awareness by linking to us from Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok etc. and watching and rating our cool videos on YouTube.

Watch and Share Our Videos

See our Wish List

Shopping for Gifts or Things you already Buy

You can help at no extra cost by making purchases you would otherwise make in ways that generate donations to Big Cat Rescue. Looking for gifts or items you need for yourself? Please consider these alternatives:

Big Cat Rescue Online Gift Shop: Shop in our online Gift Shop

Big Cat Rescue eBay Store: Sign up for alerts for our eBay auctions here

Social Networking for Big Cats

If you have an account at MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Photobucket, AOL, or any of the myriad of social networking sites, you can help promote Big Cat Rescue.  Add us as a friend, watch, rate and embed our videos, or post photos of our cats with links to our site. Your visitors will love it and you will be helping to save the big cats!

It’s a great way to support the cats at no cost to you!

Big Cat Rescue’s sites:

Adding us as a friend on your social networking site helps raise awareness for the cats. Liking, commenting on, & sharing our posts are all actions that really do help us reach more people.

  • FaceBook  https://www.facebook.com/bigcatrescue Like Us and add our donation app to your page!
  • Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/bigcatrescue/ Join the fun
  • Instagram https://instagram.com/bigcatrescue
  • Twitter  https://twitter.com/bigcatrescue
  • BigCatTV.com This is our main YouTube channel where you will find all of the produced videos of the big cats.
  • DailyBigCat.com is where you will find all of our live walkabout videos and Explore.org video clips of the cats
  • 360BigCats.com is all of our VR 180 3D videos of the cats
  • BigCatCams.com is where you will find all of our Explore.org, Verkada and Nest cams of the cats you can watch 24/7!
  • Tumblr https://bigcatrescue.tumblr.com/
  • LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/in/BigCatRescue
  • SnapChat @BigCatRescuer

Big Cat News

Find all of our Big Cat News from around the world here

Help the Cats by Sharing our YouTube Videos

Sharing our videos is helping introduce more people to Big Cat Rescue, the cats, and our mission through your own posts.  When you share our educational videos and others watch it YOU are helping spread the word and helping teach others about important cat issues.  The Google Ads that display on the YouTube videos are actually raising a little bit of money for the cats, so every time you share one of our videos for your friends and family to watch YOU are not only helping pass on our mission and giving your friends something either educational or fun to watch, but you are also helping raise funds for the cats.  Sometimes, when people watch a “Just For Fun” video that YOU have shared they will go to our channel and watch additional videos.  Again, this helps the cats and our mission.  Again, here are the link to all of our YouTube channels:  1)  BigCatTV.com,  2) DailyBigCat.com and 3) 360BigCats.com

Actions to Avoid

You can help by NOT doing the following and discouraging others from doing so. Click to see more about each:

– Don’t go see the new white tiger cub on display. Details on white tigers

– Don’t attend performing acts or traveling exhibits containing big cats. Why not?

– Don’t participate in offers to pet or have photos taken with a cub or adult big cat. Why not?

FUNDRAISE FOR BIG CAT RESCUE

Several times a week someone will call and ask us to promote their product or gig to our millions of fans, in exchange for the vendor giving us back some small percent.  That is always more advantageous to them than to us, and most of the time we see no meaningful contribution to the cats.  We have to post many, many fun, fluff pieces to our fans, so that on the rare occasion when we ask them to donate, or take action for the cats, they see our posts and will care enough to act.  Promoting other people’s products and gigs, just detracts from the good will we are working to build up to really benefit the cats.

A lot of people ask if they can use our images or logo to promote their products or gigs to their own fans, and we will do that on limited occasions, with donors who have already proven themselves to us, or with those who have audiences that are far larger than our own.  It is a case by case basis, and if you think you’ve got some amazing cred and want to help the big cats, you can email Brittany.Mira@BigCatRescue.org with all of the details that might make us want to take a chance on you doing what you promise.  Because there is so much opportunity for fraud, and so many people will be contacting me and asking if you really do have permission, it is a huge hassle for us, so there are very limited exceptions.

True Fundraising The Matters

Some people really do want to raise funds for the cats and are not looking to benefit themselves in the process.  We make that easy for you with Facebook Fundraisers.  You create your own fundraiser, promote it to your own fan base and the money goes directly to Big Cat Rescue.  That helps the cats the most.  Thanks from all of us at Big Cat Rescue if this is the option you choose.

If you are doing a fundraiser for the cats through Facebook Fundraisers and would like photos of the cats to use on those fundraisers please contact lawanna.mitchell@bigcatrescue.org and let her know what you are doing.

See how easy it is to setup a Facebook Fundraiser.  Here is a link to a page with step by step instructions and screenshots of each step.  It’s really easy and quick to set up. http://bigcatrescue.org/facebook-fundraiser/[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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