Happy Thanksgiving from Big Cat Rescue Hybrid Cat Rescue We didn’t plan it this way, but on NATIONAL FERAL CAT DAY we were asked to rescue two exotic cat hybrids who had been dumped by their owners and were now starving to death….. The cats had been trapped by Animal Control and no one…
Halloween Pumpkin Enrichment Halloween is near and that means it’s pumpkin time for the big cats! Each year the residents of the sanctuary receive a very special halloween treat – their very own pumpkin to carve how they please! The cats love chomping, clawing, and pouncing on the rolley orange gourds and seem…
Born to be Wild and Free By Ira Fischer There is a large and rapidly growing American subculture characterized by individuals raising some of the world’s most dangerous animals as pets. Remarkably, there are more tigers privately held in the U.S. than found in the wild. These “pets”, which are typically kept in small cages…
Rainbow Bridge Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of…
PURR-SISTANCE Male Ocelot DOB 5/25/96 – 9/15/12 PURRsistance and his twin sister PURRfection were born at the sanctuary before it was known that no privately held exotic cats would ever be able to help preserve the species due to the inability to tract them back to the wild. This little ocelot earned his…
Skip Male Bobcat On 9/13/12 Skip the bobcat was discovered having a violent and prolonged seizure and foaming at the mouth. Dr. Wynn was contacted and the staff were instructed to give him medication that would hopefully ease the seizure. Unfortunately his seizure was too severe and he died shortly after. Gale gave him…
Skip the Bobcat Rescue I was right in the middle of sending an email to LaWanna about some promotions she was dreaming up for the ChatBigCats.com site when Honey Wayton, our gift shop manager called and relayed an urgent message. A woman had called to say they had found a bobcat alongside the…
CLEO-CAT-TRA Female Bobcat DOB 4/14/96 DOD 8/24/12 Cleo-cat-tra is very shy and secretive. She is also very possessive of her territory, so much so that when Keepers are cleaning her Cat.a.tat, she will quickly run over and try to protect her leftover food or feces which she buries in large piles of leaves. She…
SELENA Female Bobcat DOB 4/24/95 DOD 8/24/12 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 6/6/95 Selena came to Big Cat Rescue in June, 1995 with her brother, Levi, and nine other Bobcats who had been destined to become fur coats. These kittens were the best of the sixty kits that had been produced that year and were…
Britain’s biggest wild animal circus sells its animals The largest wild animal circus in the UK is selling off its animals. Martin Lacey, owner of the Great British Circus told Horse and Hound magazine that he plans to go animal free. Jan Creamer, President of ADI said: “We have shown incidents of animal…
