DOCUMENT RETENTION AND DESTRUCTION POLICY In accordance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which makes it a crime to alter, cover up, falsify, or destroy any document with the intent of impeding or obstructing any official proceeding, this policy provides for the systematic review, retention and destruction of documents received or created by Big Cat Rescue…
Fluffy Female Serval 6/16/93 – 5/24/16 Rescued 7/20/93 Fluffy came to Big Cat Rescue from Oregon as a result of the pet trade in July of 1993. Fluffy was always been extremely affectionate until she became an adult. Servals are great hunters and fishers and she found much more happiness in a natural enclosure filled…
Fishing Cat Summary The Fishing Cat Working Group (FCWG) was founded in spring 2011 with the aim of compiling and disseminating information about the Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus), one of four small cat species considered endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and encouraging conservation action for the species. Of the FCWG conservationists, some are involved in…
Angelica Female Bobcat DOB 9/6/1995 – 5/9/16 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 5/14/10 Angelica a female bobcat was rescued in May of 2010 because her owner was in foreclosure and unable to keep her any longer. Despite having the intention of caring for Angelica for her entire life, personal circumstances had changed and this little bobcat became…
There has been so much happening for the cats that we had to break the monthly AdvoCat Newsletter in two. This is Part B. Here was Part A: https://bigcatrescue.org/advocat-2016-04/ Welcome Hoover Tiger Hoover was rescued from the Peruvian circus by Animal Defenders International when they secured a ban on using wild animals in circus acts. Watch his journey…
2016 Animal Lover Dream Vacation Winner Every year we pull from the hat one of our supporters who has signed up for the Animal Lover’s Dream Vacation. This year’s winner was Mia Voss and she’s bringing her friend Courtney Smith Kramer, since the vacation is for two people. This could turn out to be as big…
Big Cats On The Run!! Everyone at the sanctuary would like to extend ROARING Big Cat kudos to Advocat’s Miki Y. and her running partner Yung Hae C. in recognition of their amazing accomplishment in having run and successfully completed the Boston Marathon in support of the magnificent creatures that call Big Cat Rescue home!…
Fires were sweeping across Florida in the direction of the sanctuary in 1999 due to drought conditions. At that time the fire department warned us that we were on our own because we were surrounded by woods, not human habitation, and they wouldn’t be bringing their fire trucks down the pot hole ridden, quarter mile…
Transparency Is Critical at Sanctuaries and Zoos As I was watching the inept way the Palm Beach Zoo was dealing with the death of a zookeeper, it made me think about the way we always try to be completely transparent about what happens behind closed gates at Big Cat Rescue. The very day our critics, those…
There are only 2 Reasons Why Zoo Keepers Are Killed by Tigers There has been a failure in the safety measures to keep tigers and zoo keepers apart, or The zoo keeper doesn’t understand their relationship with tigers or any other big cat. There is a lot that can go wrong, from failing latches,…
