ACTION ALERT! RINGLING WANTS TO EXPORT 8 OF THEIR CIRCUS TIGERS TO GERMANY TO BE FORCED TO PERFORM IN ANOTHER CIRCUS! The owner of Ringling circus is petitioning the USDA to allow 8 of their circus tigers to be exported to Germany where they will reportedly be forced to perform in another circus! It’s extremely…
Female 1/1/97 – 3/10/19 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue on 11/17/16 Gabrielle arrived at Big Cats of Serenity Springs in CO from Wesa-a-geh-ya in Warrenton, MO on 9/20/08 at the age of 11. Seth & Gabrielle had a cub on 6/18/13 named Lola AKA Ripley, who was pulled for hand rearing at the age of 3 weeks and…
Bengali Male Siberian/Bengal Tiger DOB 1/1/93 – 5/31/16 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 12/5/2000 Bengali was First to Arrive and the Last to Leave It was either late 1997 or maybe 1998 when a friend of mine walked into my office and said, “You have to see this!” That led to a road trip to secretly…
Teisha Female Tiger Date of birth approx 1/1/2002 Rescued 10/25/2015 Crossed rainbow bridge 5/30/2016 Final Report on Teisha Tiger My hands were shaking, all the way up my arms and vibrating my torso. It was the emotional tension of what was going to happen next and the physical tension of holding the Y pole in…
Nagpur: As delegates prepare for the 3rd Asia ministerial conference on tiger conservation in Delhi, over 23 NGOs and bodies in the country want a commitment to zero demand for tiger parts in order to achieve zero poaching. The Asia ministerial conference will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. More than 700…
There is so much news we had to break it into two AdvoCat newsletters this month! Read part 1. Here is part 2: THE SAD STORY OF HOOVER THE CIRCUS TIGER IS ABOUT TO HAVE A FAIRYTALE ENDING… Hoover Tiger will arrive in April to his forever home at Big Cat Rescue! We are…
Meet Olga Bellon on Cat Chat Show 69 Olga Bellon gets a crash course in big cat care at Big Cat Rescue to implement in the new big cat facility being built in Spain as part of AAP. Download the Lower Res Podcast File here. More about Big Cat Rescue’s work with AAP Primadomus Big Cat…
Who is smarter; a tiger or an elephant? Ron Kagan, director of the Detroit Zoo, in a recent CNN Morgan Spurlock piece, that did a good job of raising the question as to whether zoos should exist, said when people come to a zoo they should expect to see animals “thriving.” Good term. Some years…
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…
Big Cat Rescue Honored as 2014 Top-Rated NonProfit by GreatNonprofits.org Award is based on Positive Online Reviews Keisha Tiger on her first “Vacation” in the Vacation Rotation enclosure Thanks to YOU! Last month, after some animal exploiters posted some fake reviews to try and bring our scores down, we asked you to post reviews…