Big Cat Rescue’s 11th annual Fur Ball was a roaring success! Thank you to everybody who attended, donated and volunteered, together we are helping to make a difference in the lives of big cats around the world! And our 2010 Fur Ball Video Big Cat Rescue does a Year in Video for the Fur Ball…
Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun: Friday, September 10, 2010 A photo taken during a B.C. SPCA investigation in 2006 into Siberian Magic, a tourist attraction in Bridge Lake, B.C. The SPCA had a number of an welfare concerns but were unable to find a new home for the tigers. One of the tigers mauled and killed…
Cloe the snow leopard was diagnosed with a kidney infection and kidney stones in her left kidney. We decided the best option to help save her kidney function was to consider lithotripsy. Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) is a procedure used to shatter simple stones in the kidney or upper urinary tract. Ultrasonic waves are passed…
I find this hard to write. I have put it off for two days, but need to record it while it is still fresh in my mind and while I have the notes, sent out as Tweets, from the momentous day; September 1, 2010. It is easy for me to write when I am impassioned…
Zander Male Bengal Cat 1/1/93 to 8/25/10 Arrived 8/20/00 Zander likes his privacy and prefers the company of his wild companions to that of his keepers. Zander’s distrust of people and his aloofness are typical of the wilder personalities possessed by most bengal cats. His boundaries are respected and he has the freedom to lounge…
Is it hot every where? Wow! I like it hot, but this year it has really been extraordinarily hot. Maybe that is why our website has been in a state of melt down since July… Actually, we are revamping the site and bringing so many new interactive fun things into the mix that it is taking a…
CATERA Male Bobcat DOB 7/24/97- 8/10/10 His parents, Shiloh and Indian Summer had been a bonded pair for seven years before coming to live on Easy Street. They had never reproduced, so we left them together and of course a littler of three resulted in just a few short months. The mother, on the third…
Dr. Dan Laughlin states, “…every white tiger in the U.S. is not only the result of repeated inbreeding of genetically defective animals but, even worse, is a hybrid or crossbred animal. Thus, anyone involved in breeding and/or exhibiting white tigers is doing a great disservice to honest conservation and preservation efforts to save the five…
