Operant Conditioning Video Operant Conditioning: Big Cat Rescue’s Animal Training Program is based on operant conditioning and clicker training techniques. Operant conditioning is a type of learning in which behaviors are altered by the consequences that follow them. The behaviors are not forced, but “caught”, reinforced and therefore trained. We train only natural behaviors,…
What’s Up With Humane Watch Attacking Big Cat Rescue? By Howard Baskin, JD, MBA, Advisory Board Chairman of Big Cat Rescue HumaneWatch is a project of the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) and is entirely dedicated to spreading disparaging information about the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) with the goal of drying up…
Big Cat Rescue Offers Home for Tony Big Cat Rescue gets more complaints about Tony the tiger at the Tiger Truck Stop than all other complaints combined. In 2009 the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries had called Big Cat Rescue to come get Tony during their planned seizure of the tiger, but before we…
Cat Chat Show 60 Smaller file version. What’s in YOUR cat’s bowl? Margaret Gates says it should be a raw meat diet, like nature intended. Join us for this hour long discussion about how a raw meat diet can help your cat live a longer, healthier life. https://feline-nutrition.org/ Help the…
Big Cat Rescue’s Quarantine Protocol To prevent the introduction of disease to animals already established in the Sanctuary, new animal arrivals are quarantined on arrival in the Sanctuary’s Quarantine Facility. Occasionally new arrivals will be quarantined elsewhere on site. To control certain health problems or outbreaks of disease, quarantine restrictions are sometimes placed on…
Kirby Van Burch Retires Tigers to National Tiger Sanctuary https://www.ozarksfirst.com/story/d/story/magicians-tigers-moved-to-sanctuary/41607/Z_D7qfs0UE2zoWVNPGMxnQ Find out more about the USDA violations here: 911 Animal Abuse Kirby Van Burch National Geographic Exposed Kirby Van Burch https://channel.nationalgeographic.com/wild/animal-intervention/videos/a-magicians-wildcats/ Alison Eastwood, daughter of Clint Eastwood, and sidekick, Donald, head to Branson, MO to meet with Kirby Van Burch, a magician who uses…
2014 60 Bobcat Pelts Seized California Department of Fish and Wildlife Warden Nick Buckler recovered pelts from 60 poached bobcats and gray foxes. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife) Tracy Lee Shultz of Courtland, south of Sacramento, was fined $5,000 and ordered to forfeit the pelts worth nearly $15,000 according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife….
Cat Chat 59 Madi Hawkins She is the Director of the Habersham County Animal Care & Control in Georgia talks about how TNR is saving thousands of cats from being killed in her shelter. https://www.habershamga.com/animalcontrol.cfm?lid=268 Podcast Image below of Madi Hawkins
or 47 Reasons To Ban Big Cats as Pets Exotic pet owners say that if they want to be mauled and killed by their pets it is no one’s business but their own. These children who have lost life and limb or have been physically and emotionally scarred could not make that decision for themselves…
Kimba Kimba was 20 years old when we had to say, “Good-bye” to her. The images below on rocks were from where she was rescued. When to Euthanize a Tiger At Big Cat Rescue we have a general decision tree that we and our vets use to determine when it is time to euthanize a…
