Big Cat Rescue

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Big Cat Rescue is an animal sanctuary near Tampa, Florida, United States, aimed at saving and handling exotic cats, rehabilitating native or injured organs, and ending private trades and possession of cats exotic through outreach education and legislation. In August 2015, the center is home to 19 large cats and 67 small cats. Big Cat Rescue has protected binturong, bobcats, caracals, civets, cougars, Geoffroy cats, leopards, lions, lynxes, jaguars, ocelots, sand cats, servals, and tigers.

This sanctuary is located at 67 acres (27 ha) in Citrus Park area in North Tampa. By 2014, the Big Cat Rescue receives more than 27,000 visitors. The Big Cat Rescue began operations in 1992, and it billed itself as "the largest accredited shelter in the world dedicated entirely to abusing and throwing big cats." It is a registered 501 (c) (3) non-profit, accredited by the Federation of Veterinary Sanctuaries and is a member of the World Animal Protection.

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Histori

The Big Cat Rescue begins on November 4, 1992. The sanctuary was formerly known as Wildlife on Easy Street , featuring a bed and breakfast experience that allows guests to spend the night with young stray cats in their cabins. According to the sanctuary, this part of history is a misguided attempt to aid the conservation of prisoners and the welfare of private animal animals. The company became a nonprofit institution in 1995.

In September 2000, Wildlife on Easy Street was applied to the Zoo and Aquarium Association for accreditation as Certified Certified Facilities. Applications were rejected in March 2001 for various reasons, including concerns about the number of visitor contacts with cats, lack of trained zoological experts on staff, inadequate veterinary programs and unfinished perimeter fences. The sanctuary has stopped any physical encounter between the public and the cat that was stationed there in 2003.

In 2013, following the 2011 lawsuit, Joe Schreibvogel, aka "Joe Exotic", whose family manages GW Exotic Animal Park, is ordered to pay a $ 1 million Great Cat Rescue to use the same confused trademarked material.

A story by Tampa WTSP television station in 2011 addressed many concerns raised by critics about how the Big Cat Rescue operated, including the lack of transparency, breaches of animal law resulting in USDA quotations, inadequate fencing that could potentially lead to animal fugitives and depict animals taken in the sanctuary as being saved from the poor conditions while in fact they are kept and raised properly and in a loving home. His story included criticism from Joe Schreibvogel, who at that time sued the Big Cat Rescue.

In October 2014, the Big Cat Rescue issued a warning by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for letting the leopard into a cage that is not safe enough for this species, which could lead to an escape. The warning was issued after complaints by Vernon Yates, a trapper and director of Wildlife Saving and Rehabilitation, Inc. Baskin replied that the cage was in accordance with the law when it was built.

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Preservation

One of the main goals of the Big Cat Rescue is to end the ownership and trade of exotic felines in the private sector completely. The Big Cat Rescue claim allows the system to be ineffective in ensuring animal welfare and campaigns for a total ban of large cat ownership regardless of condition. The center is part of the International Tiger Coalition, dedicated to halting the trading of tiger body parts.

In 2005, Big Cat Rescue published an action plan to end all the maintenance of all exotic cats, including animals in AZA-accredited zoos who grew up for conservation. According to the plan, Big Cat Rescue wants interstate transportation from big cats for any reason (including a conservation breeding program) to end in 2012, featuring a large exotic cat at the zoo ending in 2013 and keeping an exotic cat (including smaller species) at the zoo should be stopped by 2015.

By 2015, owner Carole Baskin began campaigning to pass a bill in the United States Congress called the Great Cat Public Safety Act (HR 3546) which will ban all future maintenance of all major cat species in the United States, with the zoo certified by the Association Zoos and Aquariums, as well as asylum, university, rehabilitation of wildlife, and traveling circus that was released.

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Rescue

In January 2011, the center received attention to save "Skip", a forest cat, who may have been hit by a car on Florida State Road 46 and had a ruined pelvis. Fans of Skip who witnessed his recovery at Ustream held on Facebook, called themselves "Skipaholics". These fans donate money for cameras, cat beds, and other equipment. Skip died in September 2012.