Carole Baskins Diary

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Oct. 1, 2016 SD:  Michael Welchynski, founder of Spirit of the Hills, a pseudo sanctuary located at 500 Tinton Rd. Spearfish SD, was found by first responders to be covered in bites to his head, neck, shoulders and arms.  He had been bitten by a tiger (presumably Louise or Raphael) who escaped through an open gate.  At first no one knew where the tiger was lurking.  Deputies approached the tiger’s enclosure to secure the still open gate. “It peeked its head out of the door a couple times, and the third time it crouched down and started coming out the door,” deputy Paul Hansen said.  “There is really nothing fence-wise, they told us, that would keep something like (the tiger) in the perimeter, because they are not tall fences,” Hansen said.  The tiger was shot and killed.  Welchynski is in the hospital in fair condition.  The remaining big cats were relocated to Wild Animal Sanctuary in CO.  The USDA had been camped out at the facility since Sept. 28th for undisclosed reasons.

 

In other news, the court ordered Joe and Jeff Lowe to pay the receiver $50,000 immediately.  Since it is an order and not a judgement, they have to pay or go to jail.  Can't post online yet, but thought you would like to know.

 

Jumanji and Tonga both doing very well tonight.

 

I am thankful that Chuck took down so many of the dead and low branches yesterday as Hurricane Matthew will hit the east coast today with 145 MPH winds.

 

I appreciate that Steve Houck, our FWC officer, called to be sure we would be OK during the storm.

 

I love Howie for cleaning up all of the palm fronds and pods that are scattered over our 5 acres, so they don’t become missiles.

 

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.  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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Today many of our motions will be heard in Oklahoma.

I’m glad that is finally happening.  It’s been years of frustration and expense, but today the judge is supposed to hear a number of our motions which should result in a receiver taking over operations at GW Zoo, and Joe getting bitch slapped for contempt after flagrantly disregarding previous court orders to stop trying to hide assets.

 

I’m happy it’s nearing an end, regardless of the outcome.  I’m thankful that we had the staying power to force this man and his band of minions into hiding.

 

I’ve been pleased that we haven’t lost any ground at CITES, but disappointed that greed is still pressing the big cats to the brink of extinction with very little being done to stop it.

 

I was happy that USDA send out their annual report with promises to do something about cub handling, although they were pretty vague about it.

 

I am loving Wirecast because it gives me the ability to have a purr-sonal dialogue with our Facebook fans from my desk, so I can stay on target better with the big cat news.

 

I’m  so happy to have such a wonderful family.  So many times during and after the Wildcat Walkabout people commented to me about how wonderful my family, staff and volunteers all are.  I love that we have that sort of an atmosphere here.

 

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.  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

 

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Dear Mr. Van Norman,

Hoover, the tiger you helped guide us to import from Peru, is doing fabulously.

 

We have now been approached by the Ecoparque, formerly known at the Buenos Aires Zoo, about taking in a 12 year old cheetah.  The government ended up taking over the zoo and deciding that rather than have animals in cages they would like to turn the zoo into a place to educate people about animals and conservation without having live animals. So, they are working to place the animals that were there.

 

Based on our experience with Hoover, we have looked for a suitable organization doing work in the wild on cheetah conservation to support financially with a $5000 donation to fulfill the requirement that the import should support conservation in the wild.

 

The organization we found that we felt is doing the best work in a way that is consistent with our values is the Mara Cheetah Project. Below is a brief description of the work and attached is their 2015 annual report.  Before we make the donation I would very much appreciate your guidance as to whether you would find a donation to this organization suitable.

 

Further, this time we would be applying without the help of ADI's attorney, and I believe our counterparts in Argentina are not experienced in what they will have to do at their end. So I wonder if it might be possible to assign our application when we submit it to someone who would be likely to have the patience to help guide both us and our counterparts there?   Thanks very much for any advice you can provide!

 

MARA CHEETAH PROJECT SUMMARY

 

At present, the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem is one of the two remaining strongholds for the global cheetah population. Whilst in the Serengeti there has been a long-term cheetah project running for over 25 years, surprisingly little is known about the cheetahs in the Greater Mara Ecosystem. As a result the Kenya Wildlife Trust set-up the Mara Cheetah Project in June 2013. Using a research-driven conservation approach the main objectives of the project are to:

 

Determine the current and long-term status of the cheetah population:

 

Collect baseline data on cheetah ecology and behaviour 

Identify the threats that cheetahs are facing 

Develop sustainable solutions to mitigate threats 

 

This long-term project will have important implications for cheetah conservation both in Kenya and in the rest of Africa.

 

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.  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

 

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I’m proud of Jamie and Justin 

for trying to derail the plan to delist the Florida Panther but it failed.  At 5 am she texted me to say, “The downcast of the panthers was a collaboration between Canada and the U.S.  When it came time to present their proposal the U.S. said that because of the feedback from constituents here they now reject the proposal but recused themselves from voting.  Half of the neighboring countries voted against it.  Mexico and some European and Asian countries voted for it.  It ended up passing.  The Florida Panther has now been down listed to Appendix II.  We tried.”

 

Call me cynical, but here's my read on this:

 

The USFWS was no help at all to the Florida Panther when the Florida Wildlife Commission tried to change the rules in Florida so that the panthers could be killed if they were in the way of Florida Wildlife Commissioner Priddy's planned development in the heart of Florida Panther territory.  The people of Florida were so outraged that I believe the USFWS went to Canada and said, "Hey, you guys like offering trophy hunts of endangered species, like wolves and polar bears, so how about we let you guys continue to export those into the U.S. and you help us pave Florida under by proposing to delist the Florida Panther?"  Why not?  Canada doesn't have any Florida Panthers.  No state, other than Florida has any Florida Panthers.  That's why they're called Florida Panthers.

 

But, the USFWS isn't expecting anyone from the U.S. to be there and see what's happening until they get called on the carpet by Big Cat Rescuers, Jamie and Justin Boorstein.  To save face they rally plenty of other countries who want to consume every last wild animal on the planet, to assist their virility, because goodness knows there aren't enough of them, so that the U.S. can say, "oh, we didn't know Americans cared about the Florida Panther, but since they do, we will just sit this one out"...even though it was their plan from the beginning.  And don't let them tell you they didn't know.  As soon as the ill fated plan was made known we have been all over it, along with a number of other leading non profit organizations.

 

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South Florida developers must be licking their chops now as there is far less standing in their way of building more cities and killing more wildlife in Florida.

 

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.  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

 

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CITES Update First thing this morning we met with a big cat working group including; IFAW, WCS, WAPS, EIA, WWF, Born Free, and others to discuss strategy for lobbying delegates before the big cat issues come up in Committee on Thursday. A few minutes into our meeting the Chinese attempted to spy on us by sitting at a table across the room with a camera with a telephoto lens sitting on their table pointing at us. We noticed right away and got up to leave. Two of our group walked over to confront them and they quickly hid the camera under the table. We adjourned our meeting in a more secluded spot. The same delegate from China made a scene at our side event on Sunday evening, saying they knew where their tigers were and that the US had a bigger problem because people have nearly the same number of tigers being kept as pets. He also said that we cannot prove that their is actual tiger bone in the product they make (which is true because the alcohol deteriorates the DNA), that they only have 2 tiger farms, the other 198 are "zoos" We sat in on some of the committee sessions. Attached is a photo of Justin and I. HSUS was speaking and they were sitting behind us. They make a lot of comments so we are on the big screens a lot. We met a couple that run http://www.wildheartwildlifefoundation.org/ they were really nice and have the same ideals we do. We talked to them at length about canned hunting. They told us about drive hunts, where hunters are lined up on observation towers on either side of a road or path inside a fenced enclosure, then staff beat the bushes in line form driving all of the game down through the middle of the path where they are picked off by the hunters. They also told us about big cat hunts, apparently the cats are housed in small enclosures and cared for daily by keepers. When they are chosen to be hunted they are put into the large wild enclosure and have to have a minimum of 3 days in the new space after which the hunter is driven up to the cat which is approximately 15 feet away. As soon as the cat sees people it approaches as it is used to being fed by people, then it is shot. The other thing that is starting to get huge here in Africa is the use of tigers. African law only governs native species, so there are no laws protecting big cats like tigers. Also met a group from ALDF which included someone with the last name Green? who has been working with Howard on the legitimacy of FWC claims that they are in charge of wildlife law etc. Good day overall, listening in on the committee talks can be very boring and very interesting at the same time. I think you are supposed to have a law degree in order to attend this conference. Jamie Veronica President of Big Cat Rescue - A permanent sanctuary for big cats & rehabilitation center for native FL bobcats 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. 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

Our Dad Was Baptized Twice

 

Chuck said it was so that he could date our Mom.  This was during the Sunday morning worship on Lake Maurine, and was news to me.  I like that this group actually thinks about all of the rituals and dogma that we’ve been taught and then looks to the Bible for whether or not that was actually part of the “plan.”  I appreciate that open mindedness, but have to keep my mouth shut about being even more open minded, as to consider whether or not any loving God would call for animal or human sacrifice.

 

Before the meeting Chuck was taking about his 48 mile hike through the Appalachian trail with Mark McCrae.  They had come upon a bear in the woods and all of them ran off in different directions.  I told Trundy that when I had run away at 15 and was living in the White Mountains, I’d sleep out on a ledge so I could see anyone coming toward me and was completely protected by the drop off on 3 sides.  I woke up one morning and groggily looked over the edge to see bears.  I’d never seen bears before and was aghast that I’d been sleeping amongst them.  After that, I fully expected a bear behind every tree.

 

Trundy said I really need to write my life’s story in a book.  I agreed that I should before I forget all of the adventures and misadventures.

 

Best CITES ever for Tigers

 

Dear Howard & Carole,  We just had THE most amazing tiger event ever in the history of CITES. Jamie and Justin are taking to CITES like ducks to water. They may have just saved the Florida panther tonight after the side event by double teaming the head of the US delegation (Dan Ashe). I'm too tired to say more than thank you for money well spent already, and we are only at day two of the conference.  All best,  Judy Mills

 

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.  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

 

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Jamie’s CITES Report Today Opening ceremony was led by a welcome speech by the president of South Africa (a last minute decision) so lots of security. Followed by speeches from the CITES Secretariat and others. At the end of the speeches was a wonderful musical play by locals with lion king styled props of animated birds, gazelle, and a rhino. They gave every attendee a bongo drum to play along. This is the biggest CITES in history with 3,000 attendees. We were about 10 rows from stage at a table with our own mic and name sign. Spent the rest of the day meeting people and manning the booth. The booth is labeled as Born Free so confusing to people that approach as we constantly have to explain that there are multiple organizations working out of the booth. The only mention of BCR at the booth is our logo on the flyer we are distributing. Not much organization amongst the group members. Everyone is always very distracted and it is hard to get straight answers out of people as to what meetings we should be at, what time, etc. Everyone is always late for everything. It was hard to man the booth as you get a wide range of questions. Some easy enough to answer and some that are completely out of our league and there is no training or info to read to get prepped. We answer the best we can and said, “I don't know,” a lot. We are going to run out of gifts for the attendees. With 3,000 guests and only about 700 brochures and lanyards and 500 or so tote bags they are going quickly. Judy has been good at introducing us to people. We have been introduced to a lot of people. However there are times I feel like we should have had more direction. For example there was a huge event tonight that no one told us about. We were done for the day and went to the mall to pick up a few things. From an upper level we saw some food trucks outside and decided to be brave in SA. We went down to where the food trucks were and it turned out to be a welcome party thrown by the government of SA for all CITES attendees. There were 35-40 food trucks, dancers, bars, and arts and crafts. All the food and drinks were free. It was a massive event and we accidentally found it. Shortly after arriving we saw x there who seemed to pretend she did not see us. We did not approach her, but rather mingled and talked to people we had met earlier in the day. Other things that happened; met the 1 person sent from USDA. He only deals with plants and didn't even know that the USDA governs collections of big cats in the US. Met Masha with IFAW who was in charge of the project of releasing the Tigers back into the wild. Someone who has had a huge involvement with the phasing out of bear farms. I was approached by a forestry minister from Cambodia that wanted to know about how to reintroduce wild tigers in his country. Most other NGOs who heard about this said it was a terrible idea as Cambodia has horrible poaching which has not been lessened in more than 5 years. I guess WWF has plans to reintroduce Tigers there but has little support from other organizations as it seems to be a ploy to raise interest in donating to the project but may not be sustainable unless major improvements are made legislatively as well as with on the ground enforcement. There are other countries that have much improved their infrastructure and more continuous land such as Malaysia but no one is interested in funding reintroduction there. We met the founder of Born Free and semi founder of SSN but he didn't seem very interested in us. Also met several other people that thought our knowledge base would be useful to Lao should they accept assistance with auditing their current tiger population and phasing out the farms. Justin and I have decided to basically take over our own schedules and double check the daily list of meetings to make sure we do not miss important meetings and gatherings. We have also started to just leave the rest of the group behind as it takes them forever to make a decisio

I’m thankful to writers like Lori Duska who has been writing funny commentary by the cats to management for our daily updates.

 

I’m thankful for all the work groups who come out and share their blood, sweat and tears to help us with the less glamorous parts of our work, like spreading dirt to raise the elevation of the cats’ cages above flood levels.

 

I paid $100 to RealityTVScouts.com and am thankful that they were so thorough in their pitch.  I think I have a pretty good feel for how we can do our own reality series here and sent the following to Afton:

 

Out of curiosity, I paid 100.00 to see how Reality TV Scouts promotes ideas to the channels.  Their pitch is pretty scammy sounding and I doubt that we will work with them, even though they said we would be a great show for them to pitch, because they said it would cost about $64,000 to film the sizzle reel and put together the "treatment".  I'll send you the PDF they sent me about how shows are pitched and below is a link to how they do their sizzle reels:

 

http://www.realitytvscouts.com/project-library/?inf_contact_key=f1ffc8fd7b26b23d73ded049a2ee73940a20308226b93d1d28c52aed5514d46f

 

The reason I'm sending you this is that reality shows are still hugely popular and I think we can do our own YouTube version that will go viral if we do a little bit more to spice up some of our stuff.

 

I've been watching all kinds of reality shows lately to try and figure out what the format looks like and essentially it is creating a deadline, the drama to meet the deadline, the characters involved showing a bit of who they are, and the sense of voyeurism that makes you feel like you are in the room watching.

 

With the Artemis footage that is on the camera right now, I think you can film some shots to cut in that really make people pay attention (to yet another dental vid).  I wish I'd thought to get a few shots of Dr. Miller, Dr. Justin and Jamie, and now that can't happen for 2 weeks, but Gale's good on camera so maybe she can carry it and sort of set up the scenes.

 

The idea would be something like filming Gale, in the Cat Hospital (as if it happened then, so no wide view of empty room) where she does the following bits that are then followed by what actually happened:

 

In her own words so it doesn't look like she's reading and only a sentence or two for each set up:

 

Gale Outside:  Artemis Cougar is really shy.  We're moving her family to a new area, but there's no way we're going to catch her.  Since we have to sedate her, it's a good time to see why she's being so fussy about chewing bones.

 

Then you show some footage of Artemis being a spook.

 

Gale Outside: We have to hide in the bushes until Dr. Justin has the darts all loaded.  Artemis likes me, and I trapped her, so I'll go help.

 

Show that.

 

Gale Outside:  That first dose wasn't enough.  She's really freaked out and sedation doesn't always work when there's a lot of adrenalin pumping though their veins.  Once she's down the clock is ticking.  Three hours and we have to wake her up, whether we are done or not, or she could die.

 

Show the follow up darting.

 

Gale Outside:  Alright, she's down.  Now we have to hurry up and get her out of the tunnel and into the transport, but she could wake up at any minute so we have to hurry.

 

Show that.

 

Gale Outside:  Shew, she was heavier that we thought.  Maybe that's why it took more drugs.  Good news is that she's loaded and we're on our way to the Windsong Memorial Hospital to check her out.

 

Show that.

 

Gale Inside hospital:  So she weighs X and was sedated at X o'clock.  Sedation is very dangerous for wild cats, so we have to hurry, but it's the first time she's been sedated in 11 years, so we want to gather as much info as we can, like blood work, X-rays, a full body exam and then maybe take some dental X-rays.

 

Show everything but the dental X-rays.

 

Gale Inside hospital:  Whenever we can we call Dr Tammy Miller, who is a board certified ophthalmologist.

I attended the little worship group that Chuck attends today, except Chuck was off camping and hiking with Mark McCray.  I am glad there are people who are thinking about how ritualized the church has become and are moving back to the roots.

 

My mother wanted to go to church in S. Tampa with Katie.  She didn’t seem to want me to come; but maybe it was because she thought it would be too far for me to drive.  I guess she’s wanting to do the grandmother thing and I have no desire to spend any time next to a baby.  Katie’s got another one on the way.  I used to really love family dinner together, but now there are so many babies that I don’t want to be there.

 

I’m glad Jamie doesn’t worry about my feelings the same way I worry about Mom’s.  I don’t believe the Bible.  I think it portrays God as petty and jealous and that’s not the God I know and commune with all the time.  My mother is so fearful I’ll die and go to Hell that I go to church so she can sleep at night.

 

Jamie decided about 20 years ago that she wasn’t going any more.  It scares her grandmother, but I’m proud of her for following her own heart.

 

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.  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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This is the text from the presentation I created for an MBA class that I used as a guide, so in several cases, I just say, “Tell the story” as I have done so many times.    I set it to a video and posted it today.

 

Left home at 15

 

Worked 3 jobs at a time, while living in my car, garages and barns, because I felt there was something important I was supposed to do.

 

Do any of you ever feel that nagging sense that there is something you’re supposed to be doing with your life?

 

Mine was more than just another annoying voice in my head. It was like being chased by the devil.  It felt urgent, and I was sure it had to do with protecting cats, but I’d never even thought about wild cats.

 

Around the time I was 17 I began rehab and release of native bobcats who had been hit by cars, poisoned or shot by hunters.

 

When I was in my early 20s I began investing in real estate by buying a $20,000 house for $2,000 because it was in foreclosure.  This talk isn’t about that part of my life, but by the time I was 30 I’d built it into a multimillion dollar business.  I took out only enough money to scrape by each year and kept building the business because I felt like what ever it was that I was supposed to do with my life; it was going to be expensive.

 

My late husband was a hoarder.  He collected guns, cars, boats, airplanes and then he discovered wild animals.

 

We were at an exotic animal auction on Nov 4, 1992 buying llamas when a man came in with a 6 month old bobcat kitten around his neck.  Tell story.

 

She was a horrible pet.  Tell story.

 

Don wanted a wild cat who liked him, so he called around and found a guy willing to sell him bobcat kittens, but only if we would drive to MN to get them, because he wouldn’t ship them.

 

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.  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