Feeding 23 TIGERS, LIONS & LIGER!

We currently have 23 big, big cats at the sanctuary! This includes 18 tigers, 4 lions and Freckles the liger. This video shows the viewer just how much food these animals consume in one day and at what cost. We feed our cats mon-sat with a fasting day on sunday, wednesday night is "rat & bone" night which means whole (dead) rats for the smaller cats Siberian lynx - Geoffroy cat and then whole cow rib bones for the bigger cats Tigers - Cougars. We also give our larger cats whole prey (rabbits) to try and give them a good variety of food as close to their natural diet would be in the wild.

This is the favorite time of day for all our cats without a doubt!

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• Lions
• Tigers
• Ligers
• Feeding
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• Bones
• 500lbs
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• Wild
• Diet
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• Planet
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• Rats
• Cow
• Deer

[FroIsPower]

Why the fasting? 

[BigCatRescue]

@FroIsPower Sunday is the only day we don't feed our residents, this is perfectly fine, many places only feed their animals a few times a week. Big cats in the wild don't eat every day and we use the fasting day to our advantage to better care for our cats. When it comes around to monday night feeding time our cats should be hungry and come running for their food so if we notice any cats that don't seem that interested or refuse to eat we know we need to monitor that cat more closely :)

[pow1983]

How did the Liger come to be?

[BigCatRescue]

@pow1983 She was rescued in december 2008, we're unsure where she was born?

[Jeruwalter]

do these big cats ever get any exercise? the cages they reside in look quite confined, aren't they provided with a spacious area of some kind?

if thats the case even though you guys are feeding and taking care of them and all, they're probably miserable in their caged life

[BigCatRescue]

@Jeruwalter the enclosure size for our tigers, lions and liger range from 1200 sq ft to 3 acres, we provide them with regular enrichment that they can play with and they're free to run around as little or as often as they like. We're sure that living their entire life in a cage is miserable for them, we do our best to provide them with the best life possible in captivity and this is the only option for the animals we rescue.

[BigCatRescue]

@KatiushaVN4 Believe me it is plenty of food each day for a tiger, true they do eat more in one sitting in the wild but then they go days sometimes weeks without another kill, so for captive tigers who aren't roaming miles everyday and hunting what we provide them with is more than enough!

[BigCatRescue]

@sikweedhead Big Cat Rescue is a sanctuary, we don't use our cats to entertain people they can come say hello if they feel like it or stay at the back of their enclosure out of the way, it's completely up to them. We are able to rescue and feed over 100 rescued big cats thanks to our donors :)

[manny251000]

damn nature you takin our meat

[saytuna2]

Aww they look some what really friendly....

[Standardfrank]

MIMIC...PROCESSED FOOD FOR LIONS & TIGERS...NO WONDER ZOO-FOOLERY VET BILLS ARE SKY HIGH...STUPID PEOPLE!

[reccespuff]

i love what these guys are doing