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Big Cat Bailout

Big Cat Bailout   Our federal government allows the private sector to trade in big cats, but when times get tough and the owners can’t feed the cats, who eat 15 lb of meat a day, it isn’t the government bailing them out. When you hear the term, “too big to fail” they aren’t talking…

Ace the Bobcat

Ace the Bobcat

Bobcat Rescue Rescued August 16, 2007 Died December 19, 2011 Ace sat down slowly on the concrete because her frail old body had lost the padding of well muscled flesh.  She was old and her sight was failing, but still she stared out toward the bay and remembered… She had lived here her entire life. …

Cougar Rescue

Cougar Rescue

Meet Big Cat Rescue’s newest residents, Freddy and Sassyfrass. They were rescued from Illinois in November 2010, listen to their story and watch the rescue! Rescue of Freddy and Sassy Cougars If only they could speak to us in a language that we understand.  Then we might know the horrors they have survived and be…

Windsong

WINDSONG Female Bobcat DOB 4/30/92 – 6/11/2010 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 11/5/92 Windsong is the bobcat who started Big Cat Rescue.  Windsong was at the Woods and Waters Auction on November 5 1992 where we went to buy Llamas to greenbelt some of our property. She was six months old, on a leash, and…

Jaguars of Big Cat Rescue

Jaguars of Big Cat Rescue

Hunted to extinction in the U.S. by 1940, the Jaguar is in trouble world wide, and two in particular are barely escaping death due to the rescue efforts of Big Cat Rescue.  There are only 300 such cats registered with the International species Information Service and only 22 of those are considered sufficiently pedigreed to…