Trying to persuade Peek to stop selling tickets to big cat abuse

We’ve had several emails and calls about this, but today I think I made it as clear as I possibly can in this letter:

 

I think it's easy to blow off our recent talks by taking the position that it is just two "competitors" trying to gain an advantage.  I could bore you to tears with all of the ways we HELP our "competitors" by sharing our experience, resources and staff so that other sanctuaries can be more successful in their fundraising, but to be brief:

 

We created this web page for other sanctuaries to improve their fundraising, volunteer recruitment and retention, social marketing and more.  http://www.bigcatalliance.org/members/

 

In our annual reports you can find a section called Helping Others and Saving Cats in the Wild where we detail spending over 80,000 helping other sanctuaries "compete" with us.  https://bigcatrescue.org/2017-annual-report/

 

If you have read https://bigcatrescue.org/cubs/ or watched the videos of cubs screaming and being handled at TigerCubAbuse.com then I have to assume that if you care about animals at all, you can see that it is abuse to use wild animal babies this way.

 

There is no good way, or right way, to pimp out wild animal babies.

 

But this may be the most important reason of all.  You say you and your team oppose animal abuse and quote the effects of Black Fish on Sea World's demise.  You promote Peek as being the best in the industry for frictionless sales, and tools to recapture cart abandonment and to reach out to previous customers to increase the number of tickets sold.

 

Every time one of your clients mass produces tigers, only to rip away their cubs at birth, feed them a diet that will never be mother's milk, wakes them every time there is a paying customer who wants to hold the bottle (risking pneumonia when the starving cubs drink too fast and inhale it), who passes the screaming cub from hand to hand, where they are often dropped, (breaking their paper shell bones) and then discarding them into breeding mills or worse when they are too big to use...every time you sell a ticket to cub handling you are complicit in that abuse.

 

You can't say you oppose animal abuse and sell tickets to it.  For the cats,  Carole Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue

 

Hi, I’m Carole Baskin and I’ve been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  These are my views and opinions. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/

 

I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.  

 

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Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk