Carole Baskins Diary

Kelly Hurd has been pitching us to producers for Discovery so I sent him footage and story lines.

 

 

Some things that are always true of our surgery and vet visits:

 

Unless you have been involved in these very tense situations, it is hard to explain how stressed out everyone is and our coping mechanism is to joke around and talk about things that have nothing to do with the work at hand as a way of being able to deal with these life and death situations.

 

In most cases we go to the vet not knowing if we will have to make the awful decision to euthanize one of our family members, because loading a cat up and taking them offsite to a vet clinic is the last ditch option to save their lives.  After 22 years of doing this, we know that there will almost never be a clear choice to make and we will almost always be burdened with making a decision that could result in lingering misery for the cat and then still having to put them out of their misery days, weeks or months later after trying every thing we can to give them a good quality of life.

 

A lot of the editing will require you to use common sense about what is appropriate or not.  Often in these videos you will hear people talking about other vet situations or clients, and unless it is about one of our other cats, that audio can’t be included.  The ultimate goal of these vet videos is to show the details of the surgery for vet students and make our vets look great; because they are.

 

Some clowning around is OK to show, but it should be narrated as to why we act this way in the face of such serious business.  Sometimes, while a cat is waking up, we let volunteers touch the cats, as they are never allowed to touch cats otherwise.  I would not include this in your finished products though, because we do not want to encourage people to pay to touch big cats.

 

You will see us often taking a lot of photos and videos because these kinds of surgeries are rare and documentation even more so.  That is why these surgery videos could be so helpful to other cats if done well.

 

In the videos I have sent you, this is the sequence of events, so you know what is going on.  If you watch them in this same order, I won’t have to duplicate such detail on latter videos, because you will know what is happening.

 

Task List

 

1 Four minute or less video of the surgery or vet visit with no graphic imagery.

 

1 Twenty minute video with the graphic imagery; suitable for both a vet student and the public, who is fully prepared for what they will see.

 

WARNING SLIDES:  Be sure to warn viewers before showing something like surgery both in a warning slide and in the early part of the accompanying text.

 

Vet Joseph Lion. http://bigcatrescue.org/joseph/

 

Joseph stopped eating and stopped taking his pain meds, so we sedated him for diagnostics.  Due to his age (16) we didn’t want to risk a long trip to the University of Florida, if we could assess him here, so we invited Dr. Fay Hererro, DVM, from the Odessa Equine Clinic, to bring a portable X-ray machine.  Dr. Justin Boorstein invited Dr. Tim Jones to help w/ anesthesia.  They drew blood, gave fluids, administered antibiotics and did the X-rays they could, but the portable X-ray machine was just not good enough for abdominal X-rays.

 

Joseph did not respond to the antibiotics and fluids and continued to refuse food and water, so we asked the Humane Society of Tampa Bay if we could use their X-ray and Sonogram machines, after hours, and took him in for more X-rays, blood work, fluids, a longer lasting antibiotic and a sonogram.

 

Nothing of note was found in all of these diagnostics, except a possibility of neoplasia, which are masses in the abdomen.  We had hoped that the antibiotics, fluids and appetite stimulants would help get him up and eating again, but they didn’t.

 

We discussed euthanasia, with both vets, and Dr. Wynn suggested a last ditch effort of injecting him with a steroid.  It had been 8 days since he had eaten anything and

100 Things Howie Brought Into My World or The First 12 Years

Howie Anniversary 100 things I didn't have before you.

 

The day I met you:

 

1. Some of our cats still lived in small runs in the parking lot and on concrete.

2. We had 10,000 visitors and were down 12% from the year before due to 9/11. 2002

3. We had never created an annual report.  2002

4. Our name was Wildlife on Easy Street and didn't say what we did.  2003

5. There was no prohibition on selling and transporting big cats across state lines. 2003

6. We had no audited statements and could not qualify for larger grants.  Our largest outside gift had been $10,000.  2003

7. Our gift shop was a single room in a 1970's trailer and our register was a tool box in a metal cage.  2003

8. Our front gate was a chain link panel that kept falling off the tracks.  2003

9. We had never had radio ads.  2003

10. No retailer had ever proudly announced they would cease to carry fur.  2004

11. People still defanged and declawed big cats to make them more pliable for cub handling.  2004

12. We didn't have proper zoning and were in danger of developers running us off.  2004

13. We didn't have an Admin branch of the Volunteer Program.  2004

14. We didn't have an Intern Program.  2004

15. We didn't have an Operant Conditioning Program.  2004

16. We didn't have an Education Director.  2004

17. We didn't have a Point of Sale program.  2004

18. We didn't have a way to connect our supporters to their lawmakers.  2004

19. Food prep was a truck body with one row of sinks, one row of tables, and 6 people slinging machetes.  We could only store a couple days' food.  2004

20. We didn't have a dumpster, so we had to carry hundreds of pounds of trash each day to the end of the street and clean up the mess made by people and animals.  2004

21. We had not yet been reviewed by Charity Navigator, but achieved their highest rating right out of the gate.  2004

22. There was no national conference for animal advocacy.  2005

23. We had never had a golf tournament.  2005

24. We needed to increase our budget for whole prey so we could rehab our first baby bobcat, named Faith.  2005

25. We didn't have a recycling program.  2005

26. We had never had a $10,000 in tours.  2005

27. We had no rear entrance and were trapped if a tree fell across Easy Street.  2005

28. We had never created and sold a Big Cat Calendar.  2005

29. We had never had a corporate giving campaign.  2005

30. We had never been able to qualify for the Federal Combined Federal Campaign.  2006

31. Ringling had never attempted a season without tiger acts.  2006

32. We had never been listed in Charity Guide's List of Volunteer Opportunities.  2006

33. YouTube didn't exist.  We had no regular video presence online.  2006

34. People were petting, hand feeding, swimming with and having their photos made with adult lions and tigers.  2007

35. It was still legal to walk lions, tigers, leopards and cougars on leashes in public.  2007

36. Federal rules were finally written to enforce the 2003 Captive Wildlife Safety Act.  2007

37. There had never been an online resource that showed where big cats were kept.  2007

38. The USDI had never defined a sanctuary as a place that did not buy, breed, sell, trade nor allow public contact.  2007

39. Florida did not require any sort of liability insurance or bond for Class I owners.  2007

40. We had never been able to rally advocates enough to halt a big cat exhibit at a fair.  2007

41. We had never been in U.S. News and World Report.  2007

42. We could not afford a proper cemetery nor memorial plaques for our cats.  2007

43. We had not been able to provide meaningful conservation funding for snow leopards, African wildlife nor South American ecosystems.  2007

44. We had never had our PSA's run on T.V.  2007

45. We didn’t have a rehab cage that was state of the art.  2007

46. We didn't have worker's comp, so we only had 3 employees.  2008

47. No country had yet banned the use of big cats in circus act

French Big Cat Documentary

Letter from Susan.Bass to me and Mathieu:  Hi, Mathieu. Thank you for reaching out to us for your documentary. I've copied Big Cat Rescue's founder Carole Baskin as she will know how often we are called to rescue cats and has more knowledge than almost anyone in the U.S. about big cats.

 

The issue of private owners having big cats as pets is still a big one in the U.S. We continue to work on Federal legislation that would phase out the private ownership of big cats with just a few exceptions such as GFAS-accredited sanctuaries like Big Cat Rescue and AZA-accredited zoos. If you're not familiar with our pending bill before Congress -- the Big Cats & Public Safety Protection Act -- I can give you more info. One website with good info is www.StopBigCatAbuse.com.

 

When we are called upon to rescue cats, we usually take video footage at the rescue site of the deplorable conditions the cats were living in, and then more footage of them arriving and adjusting to their new lives at our sanctuary. Perhaps you could use some of our video.  There are no statistics on how many people are trying to buy tigers. Our government doesn't even track how many are currently owned by private owners. We can only estimate between 5,000 and 10,000 big cats are currently in the hands of private owners. We do know that hundreds of tiger cubs are bred each year in this country; but again it's impossible to really track what happens to them.

 

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Mathieu BENOIST wrote:

Hello,  I'm a french journalist working for the main chanel in France TF1.  I'm working on a documentary about big cats in the US the idea is to show the problems caused by owners who wrongly thought that big cats  would make good pets.

 

I'd like to know :

 

• is it still a big issue ? How could we show it?

• Is there lots of people still trying to buy tigers as pets ?

• Where do they buy them ?

• How often people are calling you because the want to get rid of a big cat ?

 

In this documentary we'd also like to show how big cats are Abused by owners in order to force them to perform.  Thank you for your help.  Best regards,  Mathieu BENOIST Journaliste

 

My letter to Mathieu:  Hello Matthieu,  is it still a big issue?  Yes.

 

How could we show it? That is pretty hard to do because most people have figured out that the general public thinks it is cruel to keep big cats in basements, garages and back yard jail cells.  Most won't let you in.  Some sanctuaries will let you in, but most of the overcrowded, underfunded places aren't going to let you in for the same reasons.  You could come here, but our cages are 10 times or more larger than most and our cats have a great life, so it really doesn't show how horrific the problem is.

 

Is there lots of people still trying to buy tigers as pets? The problem isn't that there are a lot of people out looking to buy a tiger.  The problem is that there are a lot of people who will pay to pet a tiger cub, or to swim with a tiger cub, or to have their photo with a tiger cub, or to see cute cubs on display.

 

They don't stay small and cute very long, so the abusers are constantly breeding or buying more, but taking care of an adult tiger costs $10,000 a year, so the abusers will often give away their juvenile cubs, who have outgrown their cute stage, to unwitting people who think that just because they can walk that cub on a leash today, they will still be able to do it a year from now.  When the cat is about a year old and over 200 lbs is when those owners often start looking for a sanctuary.

 

Sadly there are pseudo sanctuaries, like Tiger Haven, in my opinion, that has 300 tigers, who let the same bad actors breed cubs each year and then dump them straight onto them.  When we take a big cat we make the owners sign a contract that they will never possess another wild cat, but most sanctuaries don't take that precaution and are just enabling bad behavior.

 

Where do they buy them?  We

Rescue of Kali the Tiger

Tim Gress and wife are divorcing and he wants to place his last cat, Kali, a 13 year old tiger.  

Met Bhagavan Antle 20 years ago.  He said he thinks he takes good care of his animals, but that he’s breeding 15-30 cubs a year and dumping them everywhere he can.  Said he just tried to unload 8 tigers on someone named Terry.

 

TIM GRESS,MELANIE GRESS. Customer No:        10449. Certificate No:     57-C-0178. Certificate Status:     CANCELLED. Status Date:        Feb 5, 2014. 

 

All inspection reports are good, but Kelly said she thinks USDA is breathing down his neck to place the cats because the license was cancelled.

 

7/17/14 Thanks – I just sent him an email asking if he’d sign the contract. If he says he will – I’ll put the two of you in contact if that’s ok. I just got back from vacation – so getting through my emails as fast as I can. I wanted to touch base with you about the Alabama cats – has anything changed? If not, I’m happy to try to help if that’s ok with you.  

 

As for the tiger in GA, her name is Kali. She is completely intact. Her owner had her, a male tiger, and a cougar in a “conservation awareness” education program. He’s in the middle of a divorce and the animals have been what’s keeping him there. He said if you can come pick her up – he’ll sign anything. I think USDA is starting to breathe down his neck to get rid of her. I was able to get the other two placed a while back and they’ve been transferred already.

 

While I don’t agree with the free-contact program he was running, he seems to have taken decent care of the cats and has been very friendly to work with. I haven’t been that directly involved other than finding placement and hooking him up with sanctuaries, but I think he does want what’s best for the cats.  If you’d like, I can put the two of you in contact and back out of it.  Thanks,  Kelly 

 

Augusta Conservation Education, a nonprofit rescue organization. Tegrid and the other animals in the compound live next to founder Tim Gress' house in Appling, along with his wife, Melanie, and sons, Dalton, 17, and Cole, 15....http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/11/02/pet_150122.shtml

 

Tim Gress exchanges throaty chuffs with Kali before he and the massive Bengal tiger rub their heads together in a friendly greeting.  Mr. Gress and his wife, Melanie, run an exotic animal rescue - Augusta Conservation Education - from their 11 rural acres near Appling.

 

Recent news events have focused attention on the issue of wild animals in domestic settings. A few weeks ago, authorities pulled a 400-pound tiger from a public housing apartment in the New York borough of Harlem. The animal was living with an alligator.

 

Ming, the seized tiger, was sent to an animal sanctuary in Ohio.

 

The Gresses' sanctuary has served as a transitional home for exotic animals found outside their habitat. The couple have placed nearly 50 animals in safe homes after rescuing them from unhealthy environments. Many of the animals were purchased by their owners as pets.

 

The Gresses go beyond the 12-foot fences and locking gate required by the USDA. At a cost of $15,000, they recently completed two pens inside an extra 8-foot, fenced daytime area.  The pens each have 12-foot fencing pulled tight between concrete-grounded posts. Both pens, which temporarily house Kali, a 15-month-old Bengal tiger, and Merlin, a 1-year-old 200-pound liger - a lion and tiger hybrid - are fortified further with horizontal poles that are strapped to the fence with stainless steel cable. All animals are secured with at least two locks and extra chains, Mr. Gress said.  Mr. Gress, who works full-time as a maintenance electrician at International Paper Co., works on the site himself to save money.  http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/10/26/met_398498.shtml

 

Also located in Appling is Augusta Conservation Education, a non-profit rescue organization founded by fellow animal expert Tim Gress.  Trained under animal tr

Tribute to Shere Khan the Tiger

 

Photo was circa 1995.  We do not display photos of people touching cats since 2004.

 

DOB 12/20/94. Rescued 3/12/95. DOD 8/27/14

 

If you saw The Tiger Next Door on Animal Planet, then you saw the horrid conditions at the facility owned by Dennis Hill in Flatrock, Indiana.  The Tiger Next Door didn't air until 3/25/2010 and it was about USDA taking away Hill's permit and the DNR (Dept. of Natural Resources) seizing all but three tigers in 2005.  What the show doesn't bring out is that the conditions you saw in the movie were far better than when DNR first inspected, although there were a few glimpses of tigers in mud up to their bellies, and it doesn't show that the awful, pre 2005 conditions were the status quo as far back as 1995 when I was there.

 

The tigers in the documentary, The Tiger Next Door, that ended up at Joe Taft's place in Indiana, named Tony and Patty where Shere Khan's parents.  When I visited Dennis Hill in 1995 he had rows upon rows of dog run styled cages, a foot or more deep in rotting feces and mud, filthy water pans, flimsy cages, some had only a rope or belt to hold a door shut, no roofs on many of the cages and then there was the barn.

 

You didn't see much of it in the film, but it was dark, filthy and crammed as full of leopards, tigers, cougars and other exotic cats as could be fitted in tiny, barren cages. The version on Animal Planet also didn't show much of Dennis Hill's house and the obvious signs of hoarding.  It was so nasty I didn't want to touch anything in the house.

 

My skin crawled from fleas and mites.  I couldn't wait to get out of the house and back to our plane, but that is when I saw Shere Khan in the corner. Shere Khan stole our hearts when we saw him on 3/12/95. Though he was bred to be a white tiger, he was born “the wrong color.” His birth was a result of the incessant demand for white tigers by a public that is fascinated by oddities.

 

Though many people believe that the white tiger is an “endangered” species that should be bred to be saved, this is a total lie. The white tiger results from a color mutation that happens infrequently in the wild and usually is not passed along. White animals in a forest environment would not live long due to their inability to hide and sneak up on prey.  When you hear the phrase “survival of the fittest,” remember that nature does not allow the genetically mutated white tiger to survive in the wild nor should we in captivity.

 

Shere Khan did not have much of a chance for survival from the start.  Dennis Hill had pre-sold him as a white cub, but the purchaser kept putting off his delivery date. He finally cancelled the sale when Shere Khan was already four months old. The breeders were left with a quickly growing cub on their hands and no other facilities for him other than a small carrier.

 

He was up to his belly in feces and decaying food in a pet taxi that seemed to just bust at the seams with tiger fur. He never got the vitamins and exercise he needed as a growing cub, so his back legs were badly underdeveloped. He was very sick for a long time and suffered major problems from calcium deficiency. X-rays showed that his baby canine teeth were rotting in their sockets from his malnourishment and they had to be excised because they had rotted through his face. His bones were mere paper shells and one wrong jump could easily break a leg.

 

We supplemented him three times a day with calcium to encourage healthy bones and teeth. Shere Khan is a perfect example of why people should not be allowed to have such animals as pets.  Though he grew to be well over 700 pounds and was picture of health for most of his life, it has been a long, expensive road.

 

His 3-acre cat-a-tat provided him with plenty of room to run through the marsh and swim in the spring-fed lake.  He was been neutered so that there is no "accidental" breeding with his constant companion and playmate China Doll.

 

Dennis Hill's facilit

Update from Howie on the Joe Schreibvogel saga:

Joe has been all over Facebook saying that John Finlay, one of his “husbands,” is just taking some family time off.  But I think the story in the local papers suggests this is just one more of Joe’s never ending string of lies.  It appears that Schreibvogel filed a police report and told reporters that Finlay attacked him and was fired.  Past employees have told us that when they tried to leave the zoo after becoming tired of being mistreated by Joe that he filed false police reports against them and even accused them of stealing their own belongings.  Click the link to see the news report.  http://bigcatrescue.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/GWZooFinleyFiring.pdf

 

After we won our $1mm+ judgment against the GW Park and Joe personally, Joe had three individuals incorporate a new GW Zoo.  John Finlay was named President of that new Zoo.  Of course, this is the same John Finlay who was asked in depositions under oath what his role was at the zoo.  His answer was that he slept until mid day, then went fishing and played video games.  Great credentials for someone who now supposedly is responsible for the care of hundreds of animals and the safety of thousands of visitors.

 

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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Conversations with Rick Kirkham from 2014-2020. 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.

Attempted rescue of a leopard and successful rescue of Mickey Cougar and other lions, tigers and wild animals from Animal House in Moulton, AL.

 

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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First Meeting With Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode

Hi Carole,  It was great meeting you. Thanks for taking so much time with us today. We look forward to seeing you again soon. Good luck with the rescue and please let us know how it goes.  Best wishes,

Rebecca Chaiklin. Article 19 Films  

 

They first seemed to have reached out to us on July 16, 2014 and then we apparently filmed with them on 8/15/2014 and sent the following in response to their questions:

 

Great meeting you guys.  What I know about:

 

• Tabraue  http://911animalabuse.com/mario-tabruae-zoological-wildlife-foundation-fka-zoological-imports/

• Antle http://911animalabuse.com/antle-bhagavan-doc/

• Schreibvogel  http://911animalabuse.com/gw-exotics-animal-foundation/

 

Attached is my recent senate testimony and that of AZA.

 

A list of ZAA members here:  http://bigcatrescue.org/zaa-facilities-exempt-big-cat-ban/

 

Comparing AZA to ZAA  http://bigcatrescue.org/aza-vs-zaa/ and here

 

You asked about our finances.  That is here:  http://bigcatrescue.org/finances/

 

If there were other details you needed from me, just let me know.

 

Remember:  “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”  Albert Einstein

 

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.  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.

Ariel the Bobcat

Some of you may have heard that the animal abusers are running smear campaigns against us with lies about Ariel the bobcat.  They have been inciting people who don't know any better to contact the FWC, telling them to revoke our rehab permit and confiscate Ariel because we are forcing her to kill rabbits and that we plan to send a totally unprepared pet out into the wild to die.

 

FWC's Captain Hooker called me and asked what was going on and who it was at the FWC who had approved of such a plan.  I reminded her that it was she who told us we had to go through the process of rehab, just to be sure that Ariel wasn't a good candidate for release.  When I reminded her of the circumstances, she remembered and said, "Well, that doesn't sound anything like what these people are accusing you of."  Welcome to our world.

 

Just so you have the back story, in July a woman called and said her son had a bobcat his dog had dragged in, as a kitten, four years ago.  She had been living in the house as a pet.  Now he was expecting a baby and was afraid the bobcat would harm the child, so he wanted to find a home for Ariel, but he wasn't licensed to have her.

 

In the state of FL it is illegal for anyone to take a wild animal from an unlicensed person, so I contacted the FWC, explained the situation, and since Ariel was a native bobcat, Captain Hooker told me we could bring her in under our rehab permit and try to rehab her.  At the end of the rehab time limit, which would be up the end of this month, we would see if she was ready for release, or if she could be released to our captive population, under our captive wildlife permit.

 

We gave rehab our best shot and Ariel can kill in a confined space, but she will boldly walk right up to anyone she thinks has food, and that is never going to work in the wild.  It will get her killed, and could very well get someone hurt.  While I had Captain Hooker on the phone I asked if we can now move Ariel into our captive population.  She asked for a letter from our vet, which I have sent her, so we should know shortly if the FWC will allow Ariel to stay with us.  We are always in a tenuous situation with the FWC because they can take any of our animals and send them to their "go-to" guy, Vernon Yates or any other backyard breeder of their choosing.  In Ariel's case, they could take her from us and turn her loose in an area for hunters to shoot her.

 

We are doing all we can to do the right thing for Ariel and hope that the FWC will see our adversaries for what they are;  a bunch of liars who don't care about animals.  The FWC sent an inspector out yesterday and he agrees that Ariel is not a candidate for release and said she can stay with us for the rest of her 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.  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.