Female CougarDOB 1/1/97 – 2/3/16Rescued 1/8/2010 Rescue of Narla the Cougar: This is a letter from someone who knew the Loppi’s. This person below, wanted us to know that Rob was well intended and I post it here as an example of how even the best intentions usually end up bad for the exotic animal….
Current USDA Regulations and Enforcement Fails Animals and Public Many facilities hide behind their USDA license as if it were a badge of honor, but this slide show will show you why USDA cannot possibly enforce the Animal Welfare Act and why it is a conflict of interest for them to be licensing the use…
Male Siberian Tiger DOB 8/20/95 – DOD 1/22/15 Rescued 10/21/07 Nakita is a large tiger weighing in at nearly 600 pounds at his prime. He had been raised with Simba, Joseph, and Sasha and the four shared an enclosure prior to coming to Big Cat Rescue. When the group initially arrived they remained together, but…
Cypress Update: 3/11/14: Thanks to our wonderful SkipAHolics, who keep a constant eye on our hospitalized cats, we were able to detect that Cypress the bobcat was straining to defecate again. She went in to Ehrlich Road Animal Hospital to be examined and it was clear that she is never going to heal properly and…
SASHA Lioness DOB 5/12/94 Rescued 10/21/07 DOD 1/7/14 https://bigcatrescue.org/sasha-gone-wasnt-coming-back/ Sasha has been declawed (and very badly, at that) and defanged) so she struggles to eat. We provide a soft diet for her, but without her teeth it is hard to hold the food and even hard to contain her tongue. You will often…
Abandoned Exotic Cats Seized by Kansas Authorities Being Transported to Big Cat Rescue TAMPA, Fla. – May 5, 2013 – Nine exotic cats and two other wild animals were confiscated from a dilapidated Atchison, Kansas, property yesterday after authorities discovered that the animals had been abandoned in their enclosures without access to…
Rufus the Baby Bobcat Kitten Est DOB 10/1/11 – 4/26/2012 Rufus the blind bobcat kitten was believed to have been hit by a car on Dec 4th in South Carolina. He weighed just 4.2lbs, had a broken jaw, split canine and was comatose. After he woke up from the coma he was pretty loopy,…
Modnic Female Siberian/Bengal Hybrid DOB 1993 and died 3/12/12 from mammary cancer. Modnic and Trucha were thought to be siblings. We do not know their actual history, however they were born in the same year and shared the same enclosure. Trucha has been bred nearly to death at Savage Kingdom and has since died from…
SIMBA Female Siberian Tiger DOB 6/8/94 – 11/24/11 (Thanksgiving Day) Simba was owned by a woman in Ohio who had declawed Simba and had the cat’s large canine teeth pulled. Supposedly this made Simba “safer” to be with people. The woman would chain Simba to the ground with short chains so the tied down…
Zoul Male Serval 3/1/1997- 10/29/2011 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 4/29/2011 A woman in NY was battling cancer, her sister had run off leaving her with her three children ages 6-17 and her home was in foreclosure…. She also had five servals living in her basement! She would never be able to rent an apartment…