The White Tiger Fraud Did you know the only way to produce a white tiger is through severe inbreeding of brother to sister, father to daughter and mother to son? Did you know that there is no such species as a Royal White Bengal Tiger? If you didn’t know that, don’t feel bad, you were…
Saving the Tiger Big Cat Rescue is saving tigers through education and legislation. We post the latest in tiger news here and in our newsletter The Big Cat Times. We gather news from around the world DAILY and send it out to people who have signed up to get our daily email. See what you…
There is no Barbary Lion project any more. Only 5 lions were determined to have had sufficient Barbary or Black Mane DNA to have been candidates for bringing this species back from the edge of extinction. The only female was Sarabi at Big Cat Rescue who died from cancer in 2007. It is unlikely that…
Anatolian Leopard Is Alive Read Big Cat Rescue’s Daily Updates on Wildcats in the Wild at Field Projects 2006 Update from the Field: THE WASHINGTON TIMES By Nicholas Birch Published August 25, 2006 ISTANBUL — When Ahmet Caliskan shot a 143-pound leopard that had attacked his neighbor in the western Turkish village of Bagozu in…
Saving the Leopard in the Wild Big Cat Rescue was recently contacted by the Sr. Program Officer of World Wildlife Fund’s Asian Species Conservation Program asking for assistance with a major initiative in tiger conservation. In mid-December, WWF will begin their 5-month program “Tiger Conservation in the Cambodian Eastern Plains.” This 4.5 million acre area…
There is NO reason to breed tigers (or any other big cat) for lives of confinement and deprivation. The only sanctioned international breeding plans for exotic cats are called Species Survival Plans (SSP) and they are ONLY carried out in accredited zoos. Ron Tilson, director of conservation at the Minnesota Zoo and coordinator of the…
Baby Bobcat Rescue Well, he was a baby when this whole ordeal started anyway… Back in November of 2010 we were contacted by the RI State Vet who was in the process of seizing a bobcat kitten that had been sold to a local man by the surname of Tardie by a backyard breeder operating…
Big Cat Rescue’s Exotic Cat Standards For general Sanctuary Standards click HERE. The Felid family definitions for the purpose of this document Small felids (under 20 lbs) Medium felids (under 60 lbs) Large felids (over 60 lbs) (regardless of species as a juvenile bobcat could be too small to be contained by 4 x 4…
Big Cat Rescue’s Animal Collection Plan Rescues aren’t planned, but we can make certain that our involvement will be guided by our core principals and not by our emotions. Big Cat Rescue is an exotic cat sanctuary and as such will ONLY acquire exotic cats into its collection. The cats chosen for inclusion will be…
Disposition Requirements Big Cat Rescue is a permanent retirement home to exotic cats, but sometimes people dump other animals at our gate. If we can find a sanctuary that is better designed for these non cats we may consider their disposition using the following guidelines: A. Living Animals Successful animal management efforts rely on the…
