Happy Thanksgiving! I have so much to be thankful for, and YOU are right there at the top of my list! This issue has some recent rescues who are really thankful that you have made it possible for us to go on a moment’s notice and save big cats in need. It also has some…
Rescue Tony the Tiger! Reach all of these decision makers with one email: Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture Iberville Parish Cindy Smith DVM, MBA, Administrator Robert Barham Maria Davidson, LA Dept of Wildlife & Fisheries Fred Kimmel, LA Dept of Wildlife & Fisheries Mitch Landrieu Senator Robert Marionneaux J. Mitchell Ourso, Parish President & Iberville…
Bagheera Leopard 3/1/89 – 11/10/10 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 5/27/95 Bagheera came to Big Cat Rescue on 5/27/95 from Oklahoma. Bagheera had been declawed and it was the intention of her owners to keep her as a pet. As usually happens, this plan just didn’t work out. When they moved, they had no room…
Standing outside his Baraboo home Saturday, Jon Meeker, 38, describes an incident in which a 600-pound Siberian tiger pulled his arm through a cage and bit down. His wife, Emily, at right, now changes his bandages twice daily. Ten days after a 600-pound Siberian tiger played tug-of-war with his arm, Jon Meeker says he’s just…
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…
It is just a “zoo” around here in the months leading up to the Fur Ball, but with that behind us we are taking deep sighs of relief and luxuriating in all the good things we have going on at Big Cat Rescue thanks to supporters like you! Every year we say to ourselves that…
Suffering the torture of the damned, is the only way to describe the pain of kidney stones. I know. I am certain that anyone who has ever had one will readily agree! In fact, I have heard women say that the agony they experienced when passing a kidney stone is worse than giving birth! When…
BIG CATS MAKE BAD PETS Cleo was once a cute, cuddly cub. Her owners put a harness on her to walk her. As she grew stronger, her former owner could not handle her enough to get the tiny harness off. As the years passed it became completely embedded in Cleo’s skin. Eventually as she grew…
2010 Big Cat Rescue is International in its Scope of Services Summary: Between January 1, 2008 and September 10, 2010 Big Cat Rescue provided $393,405.75 in scholarships to provide housing, transportation, utilities, food, training and entertainment to 57 interns arriving in Tampa, FL from 10 countries and 18 states. Grants to projects saving wild…
Don’t Touch Tigers! ORLANDO, Fla. — From across the lake, the hunga, hunga roar of a lion rang out. It’s not what you’d typically hear in a Tampa suburb, but at the Big Cat Rescue sanctuary it is normal background noise. His name is Joseph and he was rescued in 2007 from a home in…
