Carole Baskins Diary

Today I’m finally under 180 lbs

 

I’ve always been hungry.  It’s the kind of hungry that is like ex smokers feel, craving a cigarette.  I’m not so hungry any more.

 

On 7/14/15 I was 197 lbs after being a vegetarian for 17 years.  Sometime before this I began riding my bike 10 miles per day, round trip to the sanctuary.  I started the Bulletproof diet and by September had dropped to 187 where I stayed until last month.  Bulletproof added grass fed meat to my diet.  With no better results, by Jun 3, 2017 I switched to Veestro, a vegan pre packaged diet where each meal was between 200-400 calories.  I have been eating that, three times a day since then with the rare meal out with Howie.  Still my weight has hovered right around 187.  On April 12, 2018 I watched a video by Dr. Gundry about the necessity of pre-biotics (not probiotics) and what enticed me to try it was the claim that if the gut flora was being fed properly I wouldn’t have those “I’m starving down here!” signals sent to my brain.

 

The product arrived on April 17 and within 3 days I was noticeably less hungry.  I weighed 182.4 that day.   I decided to capitalize on that and add the powder to my morning coffee, with grass fed butter, and drop from 3 of the Veestro meals a day to two.  That would be a max of 800 calories a day and usually around 600.   I’m very happy to be under 180 today at 179.8.  It took 3.5 weeks to lose 3 lbs, but I’m still very excited.  I’m sleeping better at night, but that’s probably because of my lack of calories and activity level, that I’m just exhausted.

 

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.  

 

You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile!

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You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org

 

Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue

 

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

360 Video Promotion

Last week Howie and I went to the Dali Museum to see the 360 display Jen Leon had told us about.  It was 3 chairs, in front of 3 screens, powered by 3 Alienware computers.  I think the headsets were Oculus but they may have been HTC Vives.  They had people lined up about 15 deep when the door opened to see a 3 minute virtual reality game type experience of one of Dali’s paintings.  You could zoom around from one perspective to another along w/ sound effects, changing lighting, etc.  We paid almost 70.00 to visit the museum, just to see what this 360 VR set up looked like.

 

After watching countless reviews and reading lots of articles I purchased the HTV Vive Pro and the Oculus Go, which just came out on May 1.  I’ve asked Randall Munsters if he can upgrade our iMacs to run the Pro and the Go is completely untethered but it only has a 2 hour battery life.    I woke up this morning, thanking God for all the blessings I’ve experienced lately, such as an animal protection NGO in Guatemala crediting my 2011 video of the Circos Rey Gitano for being the deciding factor in their congress banning circus acts that use wild animals.   Now we are working with those in Guatemala to rescue the 50-70 lions and tigers that have been abandoned by the circuses there.

 

During the prayer, I received the divine inspiration to capitalize on this 360 craze with URLs that would redirect to our content.  That would make it easier for us to send people to those videos without having to say, “Go to YouTube.com/BigCatRescue or YouTube.com/DailyBigCat and then search for our 360 playlist...”  I sent the following email to LaWanna.Mitchell, Afton.Tasler and Brittany.Mira:

 

360 footage is getting a huge boost on Facebook due to them putting out the Oculus Go at $199.00 which finally makes it affordable for most homes.  We are getting 5-6 times more views on 360 on FB right now over flat video.

 

To capitalize on that I bought these URLs:

 

360cat.tv points to a list of our Facebook 360 videos

 

360bigcat.com points to our main YouTube playlist of 360 videos

 

360bigcats.com points to our DailyBigCat YouTube playlist of 360 videos

 

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.  

 

You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile!

Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile

 

You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org

 

Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue

 

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

I woke up to the feeling of my heart constricting!

It was painful enough to wake me and I reached for my heart to feel if it was just one of my panic attack, heart racing episodes, but could tell right away this was different.  When those happen I feel nauseous and my heart races so fast it feels like it will pound right out of my chest.

 

This was a slow squeezing as if my heart were being crushed in a vise.  I couldn’t breathe.  Trying to take in the gasps of air I wanted was making the vise clamp down harder, so I was only able to take tiny shallow breaths.  I was trying to feel for the rate of beating, but it didn’t feel fast at all.  It was hard to tell because as the constriction worsened, the pain was so bad I could barely move.

 

Seconds turn to hours in moments like that.  Given the amount of lingering suffering I’ve seen as we die slow awful deaths, I’ve always thought that dying in your sleep would be a blessing.  I guess that’s because most people who say that weren’t actually awake next to someone who was doing that.  Even though it may take only a few minutes for that first awareness to hit, until the end when no breaths will come, or sounds can be made, it still seems like hours to the person dying.

 

Still better than months or years, I guess.

 

So many thoughts ran through my head:  I’ve been editing this journal, adding photos of old lovers, and filling in the gaps with what I can remember about my life that I didn’t record at the time.  I suppose everyone feels the need to leave something behind as a record of who they were.  It’s been pressing on my mind to get it done, so I’m up to the year 2001.  I’m about to meet Howie in November of that year, but as I’ve reflected over all of the past writings about the men in my life, I wonder if he’s been given credit for all that he is and means to me?

 

In other cases, I was alone mostly and had time to write.  I also write when I am sad, frustrated, confused, lonely or angry.  For the last 17 years I haven’t suffered those feelings.  I’ve been the happiest woman in the world and that is largely due to Howie.

 

We’ve been able to grow old together.  We started out as passionate lovers and I’ll never forget making love to him in front of the fireplace.  I’ve been in menopause for probably the last half of our time together and experienced the loss of my libido.  I tried the fake hormone  therapy, but that just pumped up my testosterone levels to make me want to fight; not make love.  It also brought back my periods and I always had a horrible time with the pain, excessive blood flow and moodiness.

 

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.  

 

You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile!

Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile

 

You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org

 

Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue

 

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

Little White Dove Bobcat Crossed Rainbow Bridge

 

Despite having her leg in a cast, Dr. Wynn took her lunch break to come ease Little White Dove to the other side.  A couple weeks ago, when Little White Dove stopped eating we did diagnostics that found her 20 year old kidneys to be failing, but she had some bad molars that could have stopped her from eating too.  We opted to remove those and see if that was enough to get her going again.

 

It wasn’t. Painstakingly, her keepers begged her to eat and offered every variety of food from chopped to pureed to encourage her to eat, but she peaked at 6 oz in a day and declined from there.  For a cat who can eat a couple of pounds a day, this was not enough.

 

Keepers kept reporting how “sad” Running Bear was and every time I went by he seemed to be as close to his long time mate as he could be.  He knew she was leaving and he seemed to want every last moment to count.  I know he’s going to miss her now, but letting her go peacefully today was the kindest thing we could do.

 

Little White Dove had been born to Little Feather and The Great Pretender on 5/19/97 back before we learned that none of these cats could ever go free or ever serve any sort of conservation purpose.  Running Bear was born June 2, 1997 to Shiloh and Precious and because they were kittens at the same time, Running Bear and Little White Dove grew up together and stayed together all these 20 long years.

 

This came up today because while Kathryn, Dr. Wynn and I were crying over Little White Dove’s lifeless form, Kathryn asked if she had been bottle raised or momma raised.  Little White Dove was probably the most fierce cat on the property…if you were to believe the little fluff ball, so that’s probably why Kathryn asked.

 

Little Feather had allowed us to co-raise her kittens.  Little Feather did all the hard work, and we handled them every day.  In our ignorance we thought it was the best of both worlds, but any exotic cat who is actually raised by their own mom, no matter how “tame” or “sweet” their mom is to people, the wild cat moms instills in the cubs that they should never trust people.

 

This is a big part of why it’s so sad to see wild cats who were used as pay to play or photo props, because we know that they were torn from their moms early and never allowed to go back to her for the love and care that only their own mother can give.

 

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.  

 

You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile!

Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile

 

You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org

 

Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue

 

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

I hope I’m wrong, but I’m pretty good at recognizing a pattern.

It’s just been so busy that I haven’t been able to write.  Yesterday I spent the entire morning with JessAnn from Group Nine and Mary Beth from the Dodo to let them capture slo-mo footage of our cats to promote Samsung’s new phone camera.  Group Nine is the company that pays us for ad revenue share on our YouTube channel and The Dodo and El Dodo have been working with us every week to provide two LIVE shows for them.

 

Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode returned with a crew on Tuesday (4/3/2018) to get pick up shots, they said, at the direction of CNN.  When they were here before (they’ve been filming this thing for 4 years) they wanted me to trash talk Joe Schriebvogel, but I told them I wouldn’t stroke his ego by even saying his name.  They came back this week saying they just needed to film me filling in a few gaps in their script and to do some overview shots of the sanctuary.

 

They spent the entire day asking about Don, Jamie’s father, my relationship with Don’s kids, my family, and just kept trying, in about a dozen different ways to get me to say that all the lies the backyard breeders and dealers tell about me is hurting my feelings.  It doesn’t.  I couldn’t be any more clear about the fact that I am not defined by anything anyone says about me.  They were so Hell bent on getting me to say it that I’ll be interested to see how they edit the footage to get what they want.

 

Interested, but not concerned.  No matter how they portray me, if the documentary airs it will only be good for the sanctuary.  Any press is good press. I told Rebecca that I can’t imagine why CNN would have any interest in the tabloid trash questions they were asking.

 

Meanwhile...

 

It’s Spring Break and a dozen of our people went to India with Jamie to film tigers in the wild at Ranthambore and Sariska (3/17-3/27).  That left us short handed while dealing with more guests than ever before.

 

I hired Mojca Mars to help with the Facebook ads for BigCatRescue.biz about 6 weeks ago and her success has meant that I have to create more ads and deal with more sales, and sales related issues.  I interviewed Andrew Swearingen, from Merkato, about handling the ads and listings for our Amazon store but he wants 7200.00 a month to do it plus an ad budget of 3k per month.  Those kind of numbers made me spend days really diving into what’s happening there financially, and it’s barely break even.  Here is the letter I sent him:

 

Dear Andrew,

 

After putting a pencil to this, based on my current margins, I'd have to generate more than 30,000 a month in sales (and maybe a lot more like 145k a month in sales) because the stats I used, from Manage By Stats don't calculate my actual cost of goods, in order to maintain the same mediocre profits.  Given that I'm currently only generating about $4500 per mo. via Amazon sales, I just don't think the products we offer have high enough demand, outside of our loyal fan base, to make this work.

 

If I were selling even 30k a month it would require staffing to ship out 6 times as many products as we currently do, and that would mean having to hire more people, which eats further into the profits.  Volunteers are great for doing cat related things, but they don't want to be in retail.

 

I'm sure you could grow our business, but I just don't think we could handle the kind of growth it would take, for this to make it worth all of the time, money and manpower when there is lower hanging fruit.  Our biggest driving factor to getting people to choose us for Smile, is via our social posts, mostly LIVE videos, where I tell people about it and how to do it.  I don't think ads would have as much effect on our warm audience and probably very little effect on those who don't know us yet.

 

I do really appreciate the time you spent and it was valuable to me to know that outsourcing will be much more costly than makes sense for us currently.  If you are ever in Tam

I'm copying LaWanna too because there seems to be some confusion and she has to deal with so many others who want us to promote their channels which compete with our own.

 

When I saw your feeding video I thought people would love it and asked if we could share it.  I should have thought that through better because we typically don't share photos or videos from others who are using our cats as their subjects, other than an occasional exception; like UNILAD doing a remake of our stuff.

 

The YouTube channels:  /bigcatrescue and /dailybigcat make money for our cats.  About $100k a year, so building those channels helps us care for the cats.  Same goes for the Facebook.com/bigcatrescue "channel" as it generates even more for the cats each year.

 

Every view we send off to you, or anyone else, is money that isn't going to the cats.

 

I understand, and encourage people to build their own brands, but they need to do that on their own, without diminishing the Big Cat Rescue brand.

 

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.  

 

You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile!

Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile

 

You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org

 

Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue

 

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

We can discuss Tuesday but for now I'd like to give you a report on our recent contact with the State Department.

 

One the points we make in favor of the bill is that our rampant breeding and lack of tracking of tigers in this country impairs the credibility of the State Department in their efforts to fight trafficking and tiger farms.  As discussed, we have some indication that this could be a particularly meaningful argument to Senator Portman.

 

The only concrete evidence I know of that we have is what Judy Mills writes in her book (The Blood of the Tiger).   And as you know my suggestion that we get Judy in front of Portman's staff for that reason died.

 

At the tiger side event we helped organize and pay for at CITES in South Africa, toward the end one of the Chinese representatives apparently yelled out their usual refrain of  "at least we know where are tigers are."  I reviewed the tape of the session and unfortunately the recording ended before that and did not catch it on tape as I had hoped.

 

Carole and I attended, and Big Cat Rescue was a minor sponsor, of the event at the UN on March 2 for World Wildlife Day.  Fascinating experience personally in a number of ways, but what is relevant here is that among the half dozen or so countries who sent representatives to make remarks on behalf of their nation was the US.

 

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.  

 

You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile!

Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile

 

You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org

 

Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue

 

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

BCR REPRESENTED AT UNITED NATIONS WORLD WILDLIFE DAY EVENT

Subsequent to Carole being asked to speak last year at the Jackson Hole Film festival where big cats were the species of discussion, Carole became one of the judges for the Big Cat Film Festival to be held in New York City on March 2-3 for World Wildlife Day. The trip included special seating at the invitation only morning event held at the United Nations in a room just down that hall from the Security Council room.  The UN event, moderated by the CITES Secretary General John Scanlon, brought together an interesting mix of conservationists, NGOs, representatives from numerous governments around the world including a representative from the US State Department, and big cat documentary film makers.

 

The photo shows Howard and Carole up on the big screen, but only because we happened to be sitting behind a filmmaker who was one of the speakers.

 

The discussion was a mix of distressing detailed statistics on habitat loss and shrinking populations interspersed with many encouraging examples of efforts that really are working. Many of the latter are focused on reducing human vs. big cat conflict caused by predator attacks on livestock. One particularly successful very creative effort has been the established of the Maasai Olympics as a way for Maasai Warriors to compete and enter manhood instead of the traditional killing of lions. Another example was improved management of large parks where reintroduction of big cat species that had disappeared has turned them into successful ecotourism enterprises. The one theme running through so many of the positive examples was the necessity to enlist buy in and cooperation from the local residents in the solutions.

 

At the end of the session we had the opportunity to speak privately briefly with the US representative. We brought up how the Chinese were pointing to the rampant breeding and lack of tracking of tigers in this country as a way to damage the credibility of the State Department in its efforts to urge other countries to stop the sale of tiger parts and products made from tiger parts. We explained that our small organization attended for the first time the most recent CITES meeting in South Africa and was one of the organizations sponsoring the tiger side event. At that side event, which was specifically directed at tiger farming, a Chinese representative toward the end stood up and shouted “at least we know where our tigers are.” The representative was very frank that while he was asked to come make the prepared remarks for the meeting, this was not his expertise, but promised he would introduce us to the people in the State Department who dealt with this issue more directly.  True to his word, before the day was out we received an email from him with those contacts. A few days later we had a fascinating hour long conference call with his colleagues and agreed to follow up that we are very excited about.

 

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.  

 

You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile!

Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile

 

You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org

 

Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue

 

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Joseph Lion is Dying

When I arrived at the sanctuary I was stopped in my tracks by the majesty of Joseph Lion laying in the grass of the lake bank.  His mane blew softly in the morning air and the sunrise glistened on the water and in the dew droplets in the grass.  Birds were flying low and there was a cacophony of wildlife sounds welcoming another day.  Joseph looked so content and it made me wonder how this old, broken down lion, could look so serene given that he must surely be in his last days of life.

 

It was a momentary glimpse into my own mortality and sort of a scene of what it's like to stand at the edge of the abyss and see the beauty on the other side beckoning.  I don't know how long I stood there, lost in his power and tranquility.  The spell was only broken by him yawning and falling over to sleep.

 

Later in the day, Joseph was quite attentive to his Keepers offering him food, but he'd just take it from them, as if to be polite, and then drop it on the ground.  Much later in the day I rode past him on my bike, which always results in him looking up, if not fulling waking.  This time he didn't blink, so it caused me to turn around and make sure he was still breathing.  He was, but I think he's gradually letting go of that cord that binds him to this caged life.

 

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.  

 

You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile!

Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile

 

You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org

 

Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue

 

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

My life is all about 360 right now

Two letters to Shane and David

 

It's Aug 4-5 at the Pasadena Convention Center and they expect 15,000 guests.  See attached.  In addition to the stats on the flyer Susan said she's had 2 BILLION press impressions in the three previous years of Cat Con, with 1.3 billion being just the 2017 event.

 

I asked them if I could set up a display of 6 swivel chairs and 6 headsets to play our videos with the intention of promoting the idea of experiencing big cats in a way that doesn't require breeding them for life in prison.

 

Susan, the founder of Cat Con, who worked at E - Entertainment for 12 years before launching the endeavor, called me today to tell me that she loved the idea.  It's never been done before.  The booth space, chairs and electricity is going to run me about $5,000, plus the gear to display the videos, plus travel expenses, but I think that's a good investment to reach this demographic of cat lovers.  (I think Roselle may fund it and might even want to help me with the booth)

 

The only hitch is that Susan doesn't want me to take a booth and then not be able to deliver the end product.  I told her I believe I can pull off enough finished films to do this, especially if we can re-purpose the footage being made for the Imagine Museum.

 

There is a HUGE discrepancy in the quality of the finished footage I can create, vs what you guys can create, so I wanted to get your input on this timeline.  We can discuss next time you visit, if you prefer, because I know you guys are really busy.  For the cats,  Carole Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue

 

and

 

Dear David and Shane,

 

I think we may have broken all of our previous records today with the number of people who watched Gabrielle Tigers cancerous mass removal LIVE today.  179,000 views so far! (over 260,000 by the next day)

 

I mounted the Insta360 right above the surgery site so the footage should be amazing!  I'm putting the raw files in our shared dropbox under ImagineMuseum > Tigers > Gabrielle and will put a few of the highlights in there too, so you can get a quick glimpse of the rest of the footage.

 

I was not able to get 360 footage of carrying her from her cage to the wagon, but did capture everything from the time she rolled into surgery until Dr Justin Boorstein was stitching her up.

 

We got another 61,000 views on The Dodo Impact, for just the pre surgery stuff.  They asked me to only film up to the point where surgery began for fear that their viewers wouldn't like it.  There were 1,500 people watching when I had to shut it down, but I was able to tell them to go over to our Facebook page to keep watching if they wanted.

 

I set up the Insta360 on the land bridge last night to film the white ibis that land there before going to the tree in the lake.  It was overcast, so we can get better footage, but it gives you and idea of the angle and the birds interest in pecking the lens.  That is in the shared folder too.  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.  

 

You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile!

Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile

 

You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org

 

Check out our main channel at YouTube