Carole Baskins Diary

I Registered for the Synapse Innovation Summit

 

Which is to be held Jan. 23-24 at the Amalie Center in Tampa.  There will be 300 speakers, 5000 attendees and 300 exhibitors in the realms of virtual reality, AI, robotics, health advancements and more.   I printed special business cards talking about what we have to offer in the way of 360, 3D & VR big cats and then made a hat with the same info on it to make the most of my time there. 

 

Today Howie wrote our Commissioner, Kimberly Overman:

 

Kimberly thanks for spending time with me on the phone this week.  Attached is an aerial showing the location of the apartments that may be seeking approval at some point.

 

One possible issue with the land is that the owner of one of the parcels brought in massive amounts of dirt to raise the low portion of the property, possibly without a permit, and with no regard for the resulting water flow to our property. The second enclosed document shows this.

 

We are meeting with the developer and their engineer next Thursday and my hope is that they will be willing to seriously seek to address our concerns in their plan.  Those concerns include water flow to our property, securing the common perimeter with an additional wall to deter people, particularly youths, from entering our property, having the buildings far enough from the wall that children could not shoot paintballs or worse at the cats from the tall building windows, and provisions in land records and leases that preclude owners or residents to objecting to our presence.

 

The address of the main parcel is:  8610 Gonzalez Lake Dr,  Tampa, FL 33625-3764

 

I will keep you posted on the results of our discussion with the developer.  Thanks very much!  - Howard Baskin

 

I wish I had noted the time frame when Cuesta, the hog farm owner, was doing all that filling.  I think it was around the time that we were building Vacation Rotation because my dad was having a fit over the amount of water that was being diverted onto our property in that area.  

 

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

Howie Asks HSUS to Help Us Write a State Ban

He addressed it to our friends, Anna Frostic, Nicole Paquette, Lisa Wathne, Tracie Letterman, Jocelyn Ziemian, Laura Bevan, Kate MacFall, Sara Amundson and Kitty Block:

 

I don't recall to what extent I have acquainted each of you with my work over the last few years on a Florida big cat law so I'll review it here leading up to a question as to your ability to assist with drafting one.

 

It has been generally accepted  or assumed that because the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission has been granted powers by the FL Constitution that the FL legislature could not pass a big cat ban.  In 2008 an FWC attorney wrote a memo to that effect.

 

Some years later I got around to reading the cases she cited and I did not believe they supported her position. (As you all know I am not a "lawyer" but did attend law school so I can at least read cases.) So I wrote up my reasoning and took it to the very good law firm who won the judgment against Joe for us, Johnson, Pope. I made clear that if I was wrong I wanted to know. But if they agreed with my logic, I wanted them to do a proper job of research and write a proper memo, which I cannot do.  They concurred and wrote the attached legal memorandum.

 

I did not feel the memo was going to be enough to convince a legislator that the legislature could indeed pass such a law.  It would just be FWC's lawyer vs. ours and I felt a legislator would defer to FWC.

 

One of our supporters is a prominent, wealthy and very politically active Republican businessman. He has a very good State lobbyist for his business interests (beer). He was a major supporter of Atty Gen Pam Bondi. So we made a run at getting her to endorse this legal conclusion, figuring that would have the credibility to convince a legislator.  Her staff basically did not want to touch the issue.  So, my effort lay dormant for a few years until this year.

 

A few months ago Marcia Cohen, a member of the Florida Bar's Animal Law Section, approached me and asked if there was a topic related to big cats that would merit an article in their Paw Review publication. The Section is fairly new, I think before it was a formal Section it had a lower status, like a Committee. The significant difference is that a Section can endorse legislation, a Committee cannot.

 

Long story short, after months of work and editing, the attached article I "ghost" wrote will soon appear under her name as author in their online version of Paw Review and a few months later in the print version. Meantime, Marcia organized a visit to the sanctuary of 18 members of the Section for a tour and presentation I made about the issue.

 

The result of all this goes beyond the article. There was unanimous enthusiasm among the visitors and some others who could not attend. Marcia is working through the process of seeking to get the Section to (a) concur with the legal conclusion that the legislature CAN pass a law and (b) take the position that the legislature SHOULD pass such a law.  Armed with that, I feel we could convince a legislator that FWC's self serving position is incorrect and that the legislature can pass a law.

 

Although I know it has proven very problematic in your other state efforts, my initial thought would be to return to a simple AZA exemption and take on ZAA because of the huge grass roots effort I think we could muster in Florida. But the details of the bill is something that could be discussed.

 

Soooo, my question is to what degree would HSUS be willing and able to provide resources to help with the next step, which is to draft a bill based on amending FL Statutes that I could take to the Section for their endorsement before approaching a legislator?

 

Would it be possible to discuss internally and let me know by next week so I know if I have to look elsewhere for drafting help?  

 

Howard Baskin | Advisory Board Chairman | Big Cat Rescue He included the article in full from Nov. 14, 2018 d

Going after a beloved and well financed figure, like Jack Hanna means we will have to prove our beliefs beyond a shadow of a doubt, not only to avoid a slander lawsuit, but also in order to not turn ignorant animal lovers against us when we reveal that their childhood hero was one of the most influential characters in the war against protecting wildcats from being used as pets, props and parts.  I think this film will have the Blackfish effect on the cub petting industry and no one will be able to justify ripping cubs from their moms to use this way any more. 

 

I searched my hard drive for an image of Jack and found this 2000 photo of him and Diana McCourt.  Here is the story I wrote after we rescued 4 tigers and 2 lions from her in 2007:

 

It took the combined efforts of USDA, undercover agents and concerned citizens seven years to shut down Diana McCourt (aka Cziraky) and her Siberian Tiger Foundation. It wasn’t until her landlords, Donnalynn and Christian Laver were able to evict her from the property that Knox County was able to seize the six cats who had been used for years as props in Diana McCourt’s “tiger training” scheme.

 

By the end of the ordeal eye witnesses said that the cats were starving and they still have inadequate shelter from the elements.  Even though McCourt lost her USDA license to operate the tiger-tamer camp in 2000, and permanently in 2006, she still continued to charge people to come into her back yard in Gambier, OH and pet the adult lions and tigers.

 

The cats would often be chained down so that people could touch them or have their photos made with the cats.  To make the cats more pliable McCourt had their teeth and claws removed. (Joseph still has his canine teeth) Despite the abusive violations to their bodies and mobility, the USDA investigation included eight allegations of attacks on visitors in an 8 month period.

 

Most cases that 6 years or more to prosecute so animals suffer most or all of their lives waiting for help to arrive.  The only way to put an end to the suffering is to end the private possession of big cats and eliminate the USDA loophole that allows people to keep big cats if they have a $40 USDA license.  It is too easy to get and too hard to lose to provide any sort of enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act.

 

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

Howie Responsible for First State to Ban Circuses

Yesterday Nosey’s Law was signed into law in New Jersey and NJ Senator Raymond Lesniak, Jr. wrote Bill Nimmo and Kizmin Reeves, of Tigers in America to say:

 

From: Raymond Lesniak To: William Nimmo 

Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 4:45 PM Subject: Re: NJ Nosey's Bill signed into law- RAY

 

You got me started on animal welfare 😘

 

Bill Nimmo then wrote Howie and said, 

 

Howard,   It was actually your phone call to me that caused me to go visit Ray.  Advocacy does work.

It’s a good day for tigers  -Bill

 

I don’t have the original exchange between Howie and Bill about Senator Lesniak, but on November 23, 2011 Howie wrote our friends at Born Free and this was part of the letter:

 

“Meantime, we have been in touch with the individual who was the motivating force behind Sen. Lesniak introducing the bill.  From what he tells us, the Committee Hearing is Dec. 1 and the key thing is getting it out of Committee.  Once out, there is a lot of confidence it will pass.

 

What the Senator has asked is whether we could generate emails to the Senate Economic Growth Committee  members only from NJ residents.  We will be sending an email alert to our supporters in NJ on Tuesday 29th asking them to email the Committee members in support.  The names and email addresses are below.”

 

So it was prior to 11/23/11 that Howie had asked Bill to contact the Senator about a NJ state bill we were working on at the time to track captive bred tigers.  

 

HSUS reported:  New Jersey becomes first state to adopt a sweeping ban on wild animals in circuses.  New Jersey has made history by becoming the first state in the country to ban the use of numerous wild animal species, including elephants, tigers, lions, bears and primates, in circuses and traveling shows.

 

Governor Phil Murphy today signed into law a measure that recognizes both the animal welfare concerns and the public safety dangers posed by such shows. The bill passed the state Senate unanimously in June, and the General Assembly in October.

 

To date, four states and close to 150 localities across 37 states have passed laws governing the use of wild animals in circuses and traveling shows and many more are in the process of considering legislation. In 2016, California and Rhode Island banned bullhooks, a cruel elephant training tool. In 2017, Illinois and New York banned the use of elephants in traveling shows. In Hawaii, we await the signature of Gov. David Ige on a regulation enacted by the board of agriculture to ban dangerous wild animals, including tigers, lions, bears, primates, elephants and crocodiles, from being brought into the state to perform in circuses, carnivals and other public exhibitions.

 

But New Jersey’s law – named “Nosey’s Law” in honor of an arthritic elephant who last year was seized following an Alabama court order and who now enjoys life at a Tennessee sanctuary — goes a step further by banning virtually all wild animals commonly used by circuses and traveling shows.

 

Globally, too, there’s a trend toward ending wild animal acts in entertainment. Bolivia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, the Netherlands and India are among at least 45 countries that have passed laws banning the use of wild animals in circuses. The United Kingdom has pledged to ban the use of wild animals in traveling circuses by 2020.

 

These reforms sweeping the country and the world have been a long time coming. Wild animals used in traveling shows are subjected to prolonged periods of extreme confinement in dark and unventilated trucks and trailers as they are hauled from venue to venue for months at a time. When they are not performing, elephants are chained or confined to small pens and big cats are kept in transport cages that typically measure approximately four feet by seven feet – barely bigger than the animals themselves. The animals are routinely deprived of adequate exercise, veterinary care, or even reg

I Forgot My Password

I have one password to open my computer and then password service to open the 500+ programs and secure sites I use.  A couple years ago it crashed and I had to reset its password and most of those other sites, so I did the old lady thing and wrote down the main password on a sticky note and put it in my top desk drawer.  Stupid.  I know.  But I thought it would be worse not being able to access the world.  

 

Yesterday I walked in sat down, and just stared at the computer.  I could not remember my password to save my life.  I couldn’t even remember the sticky note Plan B.  

 

I decided coffee might help and made a cup, took my vitamins, confessed my memory loss to Howie, tried to get consolation from Pearlie, and finally I saw it in my head and was able to start my day.  That led me to seeing if I’d ever created a page of help for everyone if I die or become incapacitated and I had created such last year, so I updated it to yesterday’s date.  

 

Knowing that my mind is going, or at least having some pretty significant shut downs, I’m even more compelled to finish this diary.  I discovered a folder full of emails between Howie and me and have been putting those in order and in this book and falling in love with him over and over as I do.  All of the beautiful things I thought and said about him during our meeting and falling in love are even more true today.  Thankfully there are better ways to store passwords than on a sticky note now, so no more of that nonsense. 

 

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

Tiger Trafficking in America

 

 

 

Government authorities will often say they can find little or no evidence of the black market trade in tigers in America which just tells me they aren’t looking.  A fan of ours sent the following to me and Howie sent it to the USFWS agent Matt Bryant and the next day, after nothing had been done, I sent to the FWC. 

 

Go to: www.estatesalesinorlando.com, go to "Our Next Estate Sale", second listing down, address:  1205 Forest Circle, Altamonte Springs, FL 32714, pictures #93 - 95. Phone  407-256-ssss.

 

I've attached copies of the tiger skin (which is being marketed as lion paws, but there are distinct stripes further up the legs) and copies of the county records showing the owner of the home, where the items are being sold to be David Sweeney.

 

https://estatesales.org/photos/27453141?from=https://estatesales.org/estate-sales/fl/altamonte-springs/32714/estate-sale-in-altamonte-springsestate-1600949/gallery

 

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

Invited Erik Mathais of Immertec to Collaborate

His company films doctors in 360 and 3D in real time to use as course material for training doctors using Medoptic Virtual Surgical Observation.  He’s based in Ybor, possibly at the Blind Tiger Cafe, according to the news. 

 

Hi Erik,  Congrats on the piece in the Tampa Bay Business Journal.  I'm sure you are being slammed with fan mail right now so I'll be brief:

 

Big Cat Rescue's goal is to end the barbaric practice of holding wild cats in cages for amusement and we are investing in virtual reality as a way to change the demand for real lions and tigers in cages to virtual experiences.  We have over 7 TBs of stored 360 video that has been shot on the Insta360 Pro 2, GoPro Omni, GoPro Fusion, Insta360X and Insta360 One that we are happy to share, for free, to those who are willing to promote this technology and demand further.

 

We have an aging population of 60 exotic cats, and an onsite hospital where we mount both LIVE cameras and 360 cameras, and our two vets are already accustomed to having everything they do (except euthanasia and necropsies) being filmed in real time.  You can see some samples of our edited videos at:  360BigCat.com and 360BigCats.com

 

We just started messing around with 3D last week and think that's going to be a hit too.  I'd love to have you and your staff or family come see Big Cat Rescue and see if there are ways we can help each other.

 

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

Fur Trade is Ending

 

25 Years ago we bought out 56 bobcat and lynx kittens from the Fur Farm in LeCenter, MN because when I learned cats were being killed for their fur, I thought I could put a stop to that.  (Those kittens were about the size and color that Pearlie is in this photo taken today with Howie)  That led to saving 28 bobcats and lynx the next year, 22 bobcats and lynx the next year and with that the fur farms in America were no longer killing cats for their fur.  Tiger Lilly the Bobcat is the last of those cats.  The following 2 years we were working on emptying the fur farm cages in Canada.  Apollo the Siberian Lynx is the last of those cats. 

 

Just this year scores of clothing designers and retailers around the world have banned fur from their products—including Coach, Burberry, Versace, Chanel, Diane von Furstenberg, Michael Kors, Jimmy Choo, Donna Karan, Armani, Hugo Boss and Gucci, to name just a few. Even major cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles are banning the sale of fur outright.  Indiana and Ohio have yielded to public pressure to scale back bobcat hunting and other states are seeing similar changes coming.

 

Today I woke up thinking about that and the first email I opened turned out to be PETA talking about ending the fur trade permanently for all animals, especially rabbits.  That was even more coincidental because I’d been laying in bed thinking about how PETA gets a bad rap, even in animal lover circles, because ignorant people believe what the bad guys tell them without doing any research on their own.  That’s the same way so many of our supporters used to talk about us, until they learned who we really are, so I was thinking to do a LIVE Facebook cast today talking about that.  It’s pouring rain and there is a tornado watch in the area, so this will have to do. 

 

I remember back in the 90s PETA was saying some mean things about us, that weren’t true, but it was understandable that they would suspect us of animal abuse because they knew back yard breeders and dealers in big cats were bad news.  They had no way to know that we were different.  When I was alerted that “PETA is here!” I didn’t run them off.  I welcomed them.  I figured they would actually like us if they knew us, so I introduced them to the cats, told their rescue stories and more importantly offered to take them anywhere and show them anything they wanted to see.  Suspicion grows in the absence of transparency.  It was my first experience with opening our books and back rooms to outsiders so they could decide for themselves who and what we are.

 

Over the years we’ve worked with PETA for better laws to protect the cats.  I know a lot of people who have worked there over the past quarter of a century, and a lot who still do.  They have some truly brave, intelligent and dedicated staff who do the dirty under cover work others fear.  They are some of the most tender hearted souls, but they bear witness to unbearable animal cruelty.  (The kind of things you’d scroll past fast on social sites because you can’t stand to see it)  They put themselves in harm’s way in order to gather the footage and evidence necessary to bring to justice some of what we consider the worst abusers, like Dade City’s Wild Things.  They have some of the best animal lawyers in the industry who use the pathetically inadequate laws we currently have to enforce the endangered species act where the government just chooses to turn a blind eye.  

 

Many times we have worked with PETA, who chose to stay in the background, because of the people who would regurgitate untruths about them in an effort to derail the real objective.  People who abuse animals don’t have a story that resonates with the public, so their only defense is to try and discredit those who are bringing them to task.  We’ve experienced a lot of that ourselves and often we have to work in the background, so that the abusers can’t divert the narrative away from their misdeeds.  

 

I can

Howie Summarizes Cub Petting for Ad Campaign

CUB PETTING PROJECT

 

BACKGROUND

 

Growing public awareness of captive animal issues. In the last few years we have increasingly seen that public awareness of captive exotic animal issues has been growing at an accelerating rate. It has become widespread enough to impact businesses that exploit animals by reducing attendance to a point where they had to either close down like Ringling or change their ways dramatically like SeaWorld.

 

For more on this accelerating trend see an article I wrote for Encyclopedia Britannica at http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2018/10/how-is-the-struggle-for-womens-suffrage-100-years-ago-like-the-battle-to-stop-abuse-of-big-cats/ .

 

Cub petting drives the breeding. The vast majority of the breeding, particularly of tiger cubs, is to create a steady stream of cubs in order to charge the public to hold and pet them, take photos with them, even swim with them.  The cubs are only useful for a few months so a steady supply is needed.

 

This cub petting trade is a horribly abusive treatment of these animals because:

 

• Cubs are ripped from their mothers at birth to make them more manageable because if they are left with the mothers for even a month they become the equivalent of feral cats and not useful. This separation at birth is a torment to any mammal mother and offspring.

• The cubs are physically punished in order to diminish their natural tendencies to play roughly, which nature builds in as part of their training to be successful tigers in the wild.

• The cubs are deprived of the mother’s milk that has immune qualities that bottle formula cannot duplicate. The cubs’ immune systems are further impaired by sleep deprivation, because the cubs, who normally would sleep the largest part of the day, are kept awake as long as there are customers willing to pay. They are often awakened from sleep in order to be used for petting.

• These tiny cubs with weakened immune systems are then exposed to being handled by hundreds of people who may be carrying disease either themselves or from pets at home. Cubs with raging diarrhea and ringworm have continued to be used by the cub petting operations.

• There is no tracking of how many cubs die in the process. There is no tracking of how many that survive are raised until big enough to slaughter to supply the illegal trade in their parts because there is no tracking of what these few breeders do with the cubs once they are too big to pet. The ones that can be tracked end up with miserable lives with the females being unhealthily bred constantly instead of the natural 2-3 year cycle that occurs in nature because it takes that long for the mother to teach the cubs to hunt and for the cubs to reach sufficient maturity to be on their own.

 

There are about a half dozen significant cub petting breeders in the country. Some are in relatively small markets, at least one in the larger SE Florida market.  However, their customers come from all over the country, particularly if they are in vacation destination areas. The rest of the country’s zoos operate without cub petting.

 

Our goal is not to put any zoo out of business. Our goal would be to create such awareness of the misery caused by cub petting that people would

(a) Not patronize it and

(b) Call out those few zoos who do it to a point where the reduced revenue and negative publicity would cause the zoos to change their ways and join the vast majority of zoos who are successful without doing cub petting.

 

BCR Financial Position. We have had a series of good years that has allowed us to (1) fully fund the “pension liability” that insures we can care for the cats to the end of their lives if another 9-11 or other event caused donations and visitors to stop and (2) we have made most of the major capital improvements needed on the sanctuary property. The puts us in a position where, if we thought we could have a meaningful impact on public awareness o

Justin came to give Maya Cougar some pain meds and steroids as a last ditch effort to save her after she’s had 5 seizures in the past day.  Maya Cougar only spent a year at Big Cat Rescue but she was such a special cat that she touched our hearts.   There was only 35 hours from the onset of the seizures until she died and she was under the care of two vets and on anti seizure meds, pain meds and steroids.  We have had other cats who lived for years after having seizures, so we were hoping she could shake it off if we gave her a couple days to stabilize.

 

Two hours later she was dead.  I was watching the first shift of Nest Cams after everyone left for the night and she died about 5 minutes after Kathryn, Afton and Aleesa left. 

 

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