Big Cat Rescue is a nonprofit 501(c)3 charity dedicated to the care of exotic cats. We provide a permanent home for unwanted wildcats and we educate the public in order to eliminate the causes of abandonment and abuse.
Your tax deductible donations are what makes this possible. With your help we cane end the suffering and give these great cats a home for life.
Thank you for watching if you would like to find out more please visit:
Big Cat Rescue is a nonprofit 501(c)3 charity dedicated to the care of exotic cats. We provide a permanent home for unwanted wildcats and we educate the public in order to eliminate the causes of abandonment and abuse.
Your tax deductible donations are what makes this possible. With your help we cane end the suffering and give these great cats a home for life.
Thank you for watching if you would like to find out more please visit:
http://www.bigcatrescue.org
if you would like to make a donation please visit:
H.R. 669: Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act. To prevent the introduction and establishment of nonnative wildlife species that negatively impact the economy, environment, or other animal species' or human health, and for other purposes.
This will NOT affect hamsters, guinea pigs, etc. so don't drink the KoolAid the animal dealers are trying to sell you. The bill is to allow the US Fish & Wildlife Svc come up with a list of truly dangerous invasive animals that won't be allowed as pets. The parakeet police are not going to come take your pets. It is a common sense bill for people with common sense. Find out the truth from someone other than a breeder, dealer or animal exploiter.
Millions of wild animals, including reptiles, large felines, nonhuman primates, and others, are kept in private possession in the U.S. The trade in exotic animals is a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry.
HR669 will help prevent these "pets" that often are just released into the wild from destroying our native animals and habitat.
The June 17, 2009 hearing of the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission set a record for the number of animal lovers to attend and speak up at their meetings. Carole Baskin as been attending these meetings since 1994 and rarely do more than two or three animal advocates show up but at this meeting we counted more than 40 people who spoke in favor of tougher laws to regulate the trade in exotic animals. We hope this is the beginning of a trend and if so it will shape the future. Wild animals will no longer be exploited, abused, neglected and abandoned if the public continues to speak up for them
The best news is that Cougars and Cheetahs have been uplisted to Class I which means that they can no longer be kept as pets in Florida. Those who already own these cats as pets can keep them, but cannot breed or replace them unless they meet the higher requirements for owning Class I animals which includes 5 acres of land, stronger cages and they cannot use them for petting sessions after they reach 45 lbs., so fewer people will be mauled by them.
Our biggest defeat was that the FWCC approved a new category of licensee called "Sanctuary" No accredited or legitimate sanctuary asked for this category and 2500+ of the 2764 letters received by the FWC specifically asked that it not be adopted as it creates 4 major loopholes.
BIG CAT TV is a close look into our day to day operations, the conservation efforts we support, and the 100+ feline residents of "Big Cat Rescue" in Tampa, Fl. USA
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Big Cat Rescue is a nonprofit 501(c)3 charity dedicated to the care of exotic cats. We provide a permanent home for unwanted wildcats and we educat...
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Big Cat Rescue is a nonprofit 501(c)3 charity dedicated to the care of exotic cats. We provide a permanent home for unwanted wildcats and we educate the public in order to eliminate the causes of abandonment and abuse.
Your tax deductible donations are what makes this possible. With your help we cane end the suffering and give these great cats a home for life.
Thank you for watching if you would like to find out more please visit:
While there aren´t a great many zoos or roadside attractions that have ligers, they certainly do exist. A liger results from a breeding between a m...
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While there aren´t a great many zoos or roadside attractions that have ligers, they certainly do exist. A liger results from a breeding between a male lion and a female tiger.
One look at any of the popular liger pictures found all over the internet and you would think that these animals are strong, fit, and healthy. Sadly, though, this is simply not the case with a majority of these animals.
The first liger litter was born in 1824. They died within a year. The second round of ligers, born in 1825 only survived a short while as well. The third ever litter was born around 1826, and only survived a few months. This alone should have been a huge indication that something was wrong, and that these animals shouldn´t be created. But people are fascinated with strange or unusual things, so the practice has continued up until this very day.
There are also birthing problems. The abnormal size of a liger cub may cause a miscarriage. If the liger cub comes out alive, many have been recorded to last only a few days or weeks. Since the liger cub is born so much larger than a normal tiger cub, the mother often requires a C-Section. This can be fatal, and it is reckless and selfish to put a tigress through this just for a liger cub.
Ligers lack a growth-inhibiting gene and are prone to gigantism. This means they grow throughout a very large portion of their lives. Because of this, some ligers have actually been disposed of once they get to a size deemed to dangerous.
Tigons, animals that result from a breeding with a male tiger and female lion, share a similar story.
Tigons are often born prematurely. Unlike ligers, tigons typically are very small, and prone to dwarfism.
Ligers and tigons share a lot of problems as well. Both have health problems due to genetic abnormalities and neurological defects associated with hybridization. Being hybrids, they are not genetically strong, and typically live much shorter lives than either of their parents.
It is speculated that these hybrids have incomplete DNA, which could be another reason why they typically don´t live very long.
They are prone to cancers, disease, and arthritis, and are known to have unstable temperaments. Depression and confusion have been noted in ligers and tigons. This is due to conflicting behavioral instincts (for example, tigers are solitary, and lions are social).
Both animals have unique nutritional needs, which are rarely met.
Did you know that the AZA does not approve of breeding ligers and tigons? They don´t, because they feel it is unethical, and because it has always been standard procedure to not keep two separate species together. Whenever you go to a zoo with a liger, you are supporting an unaccredited zoo, which is rarely a good thing. Also, animal experts worldwide have stated themselves that this hybridizing is simply not okay.
These zoos typically have two responses when people ask why they have ligers:
1. Ligers were not something we planned on having or wanted, their births were accidental. Why this answer doesn´t work: How can a hybrid be accidental? No good zoo would ever mix species in the same enclosure. If they really wanted to mix species in the same enclosure, they could have easily ensured no accidental births by having the animals fixed. This answer is just not justifiable.
2. We are breeding ligers to save them in the wild (conservational purposes) Why this answer doesn´t work: Ligers have never existed in the wild. People have made claims, but none have ever been proven. The only area in the world where lions and tigers would meet is the Gir Forest. However, this area is actually terrible tiger terrain, and only really suited for lions. It is not likely these two animals would ever meet up, and normal behavior would keep them from mating with each other. Besides, the majority of these animals are sterile and they will never be considered a true species.
What this means is that by you supporting a facility that breeds these animals, you are supporting something that is exploiting their animals for money and completely disregarding the many health issues that ligers and tigons face. You are supporting a place that is willing to lie and deceive the public for their personal gain.
This is something we must stop soon. Please boycott places that continue to breed ligers and tigons, and spread the word as best as you can.
-AnimalMedia --- For more information, visit: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild... --- A special thanks to Big Cat Rescue and Carole Baskin (their founder) for allowing us to use their images. It was a great help and we appreciate it immensely.
Across the world, especially in the United States, a massive deception about white tigers and their origin is taking place.
Did you know that there ...
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Across the world, especially in the United States, a massive deception about white tigers and their origin is taking place.
Did you know that there truly is no such thing as a royal white Bengal tiger in captivity?
Did you know that there isn´t even a wild white tiger population, and that no white tiger has even been seen since the 1950s?
Did you know that there isn´t even a conservational value for breeding white tigers, nor that any are able to participate in any Species Survival Plans?
And finally, did you know that white tigers can only exist through rampant inbreeding, which causes heavy deformities, mental disabilities, and birth defects?
Most people don´t know these things. This is mainly because the zoos just don´t want the public to know. White tigers are the animal that everyone wants to see. When sold, they cost much more than a normal orange colored tiger. They are seen as more valuable because the public has naively believed the lies spread by countless zoos around the world.
White tigers are all related to Mohan, a white tiger cub that was captured in India in the 1950s. He was bred to a Siberian tiger (they hoped that the resulting cubs would be bigger due to the Siberian tiger´s greater size) in the hopes of producing more white tigers.
When all the cubs were orange, they were baffled. But, as they soon discovered, by breeding Mohan with his own daughter, some white tigers resulted. The inbreeding turned out to be necessary because the rarity of the gene that causes the white coloration, and because the gene is double recessive. From then on, all white tigers have been a result of such inbreeding.
Since the first breeding occurred between a Bengal and Siberian tiger, all subsequent animals were tiger hybrids. Because they were not pure species, no white tiger or orange tiger from that line will ever be able to be used in Species Survival Programs. Only pure subspecies can be used for that. Therefore, when zoos say they breed white tigers for conservation, they are trying to deceive the public. AZA accredited zoos typically frown upon the practice of breeding white tigers for this very reason.
With inbreeding comes many problems. The neonatal mortality rate for these animals is 80%. That means 80% of these tigers will die of birth defects. All other white tigers will have crossed eyes, whether it shows or not, because the white gene causes the optic nerve to be wired on the wrong side of the brain. The majority that survives suffer from profound defects and problems, such as immune deficiency, scoliosis, cleft palates, mental impairments, deformities, etc. The list could go on. So many of these animals suffer from deformities that it is estimated that only 1 in 30 white tigers will be put on display. The rest are sold off, either to another roadside zoo or placed in the exotic pet trade, or are killed. Zoos have no interest in animals they deem ugly.
This is the abuse that you are supporting every time you pay patronage to a zoo that has white tigers. This means that you must boycott such zoos and spread the word about this despicable practice. Contact any zoos you know of with white tigers and urge them to get their animals fixed. This is something that we can stop! We need to get our voices heard by the places that continue to breed these animals. When they realize the public isn´t falling for their tricks, they´ll realize that they have to stop the abuse in order to earn money.
When the people stop paying, maybe the killing and abuse can stop too.
-AnimalMedia --- For more detailed information, visit: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild... --- A special thanks to Big Cat Rescue and Carole Baskin (their founder) for allowing us to use their images. It was a great help and we appreciate it immensely. Big Cat Rescue´s website: http://www.bigcatrescue.org
H.R. 669: Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act. To prevent the introduction and establishment of nonnative wildlife species that negatively i...
more
H.R. 669: Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act. To prevent the introduction and establishment of nonnative wildlife species that negatively impact the economy, environment, or other animal species' or human health, and for other purposes.
This will NOT affect hamsters, guinea pigs, etc. so don't drink the KoolAid the animal dealers are trying to sell you. The bill is to allow the US Fish & Wildlife Svc come up with a list of truly dangerous invasive animals that won't be allowed as pets. The parakeet police are not going to come take your pets. It is a common sense bill for people with common sense. Find out the truth from someone other than a breeder, dealer or animal exploiter.
Millions of wild animals, including reptiles, large felines, nonhuman primates, and others, are kept in private possession in the U.S. The trade in exotic animals is a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry.
HR669 will help prevent these "pets" that often are just released into the wild from destroying our native animals and habitat.
The June 17, 2009 hearing of the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission set a record for the number of animal lovers to attend and speak up at th...
more
The June 17, 2009 hearing of the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission set a record for the number of animal lovers to attend and speak up at their meetings. Carole Baskin as been attending these meetings since 1994 and rarely do more than two or three animal advocates show up but at this meeting we counted more than 40 people who spoke in favor of tougher laws to regulate the trade in exotic animals. We hope this is the beginning of a trend and if so it will shape the future. Wild animals will no longer be exploited, abused, neglected and abandoned if the public continues to speak up for them
The best news is that Cougars and Cheetahs have been uplisted to Class I which means that they can no longer be kept as pets in Florida. Those who already own these cats as pets can keep them, but cannot breed or replace them unless they meet the higher requirements for owning Class I animals which includes 5 acres of land, stronger cages and they cannot use them for petting sessions after they reach 45 lbs., so fewer people will be mauled by them.
Our biggest defeat was that the FWCC approved a new category of licensee called "Sanctuary" No accredited or legitimate sanctuary asked for this category and 2500+ of the 2764 letters received by the FWC specifically asked that it not be adopted as it creates 4 major loopholes.
