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Thurston Bobcat Hybrid Gets First Spice Bag   Thurston, AKA, Mr Howell, the bobcat hybrid that we just rescued from KS is enjoying his first spice bag. Video by Willow. at Big Cat Rescue  Tampa FL. The Plan’s Approved. Now What? ACT Needs Your Help to Make the County’s Life-Saving Plan a Reality ACT, The Humane Society and countless other organizations have been trying for years to persuade Hillsborough County Animal Services to reduce the euthanasia rate and develop no-kill options to save the lives of hundreds of dogs and cat [...]

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Lion on the Menu Every few months some bonehead thinks it might get them some publicity to offer up lions on the menu.  This month it is Taco Fusion offering Lion tacos.  News at 11 on most Tampabay channels. The reporter I just talked to said the taco joint’s owner says the lions are raised on a farm in Ft Lauderdale, FL and then sent to CA to be packaged. I told the reporter he will never find such a farm because it doesn’t exist. The lions who are butchered are more likely the castoffs from the pay to play trade. I suggested he t [...]

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National Geographic Moment   I was talking to a reporter about the new arrivals and noticed that a baby Cardinal had fallen out of the tree and onto Mary Ann the bobcat’s jungle gym perch. The mother and father Cardinals were working desperately to lure Mary Ann away from the baby, so it could hop down to the ground outside her cage, but the baby was confused.     The baby wanted to watch the show from his perch on Mary Ann’s platform. Mary Ann was so intrigued with these crazy Cardinals, who were just taunting her in [...]

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Most Daring Rescue Ever!   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 food or clean water. The Atchison County Sheriff’s Office seized one tiger, two cougars, three bobcats, two lynx, a serval and two skunks under the state’s Dangerous Regulated Animals Act and the animal cruelty code. The Humane Society of the United States, Big Cat Rescue, In-Sync Exotics and the [...]

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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 food or clean water. The Atchison County Sheriff’s Office seized one tiger, two cougars, three bobcats, two lynx, a serval and two skunks under the state’s Dangerous Regu [...]

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Big Cats Do What Little Cats Do     Check in on Flavio and SARMOTI the old tigers, and then check out dinner time for Amanda, Andre and Arthur the tigers.  Spy on Doodles and Zouletta, the servals in love and then see a long and extremely rare few minutes of Tommie Girl the bobcat.  Watch Pharaoh the white serval rub around “table” legs, and Anasazie bobcat pounce after a lizard, see cougars stalking, pouncing and then rubbing their cheeks against the wall, as if to say, “Just kidding.”  See our volunteers catc [...]

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RUNNING BEAR Male Bobcat DOB 6/2/97 Running Bear and Little White Dove are the exception to the rule when it comes to wildcats living solitary lives. One of our senior volunteers watched as these two young bobcats bonded and chose to live together.  They now share a cat-a-tat that features high limbs for them to climb and sleep upon. The higher the perch, the better they seem to like it.  These two always prefer a room with a view! You can help feed me HERE     Running Bear & Little White Dove  by J.P. Richardson   On the ban [...]

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Sassyfrass Male Cougar DOB  1/1/1998 Arrived at Big Cat Rescue  11/17/2010     If only they could speak to us in a language that we understand.  Then we might know the horrors they have survived and be more inclined to protect others from enduring their fate.   I’ll share with you what I do know and hope that will inspire you to help these cougars and to do all you can to end the trade in exotic cats.   Back in the 90s, farmers Al and Kathy Abell, decided to start a breeding facility called Cougar Bluff Enterprises. Th [...]

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NARLA Female Cougar DOB 1/1/97 Arrived 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.   According to a number of emails I got after the fact, Rob’s wife was looking to euthanize the cat, but Rob’s friends, family and the media were on her case and she couldn’t  do it without looking like a mo [...]

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