Carole Baskins Diary

Laura Asks About the White Cats Who Were My Friends

 

Laura asked when I stopped seeing the white cats.  (This photo taken later of Babylon on his cat tower shows one of the large white cat sculptures in the background)

 

I never knew anything about wild cats as a kid.  I could not have told a bobcat from a cheetah.  The cats were not really white, so much as they were almost hard to look at, white light.  Their shape was very much like the shape of the cougar, but as a child, I would not have known that.  They were not shaped like cats, but that is how I referred to them.  They were the size of Shadow to me as a child, so probably the size of Catrina in reality.

 

They didn't have names and while their voices were distinctly different, they shared a unison that is hard, even now for me to explain.  I always heard their two voices and still do.  That part never left me.  Their voices have always been like two people saying the same thing in two different ways.  They always agree with each other and I am usually the one trying to argue some other perspective, but they are always right.

 

A case in point:  When Hercules, Armani and Jumanji were all about a year old, circa 1998 I had a limo that was like they haul old folks around town in.  On one side of the bus I had installed stainless steel cages and on the other side of the bus were seats and we were on our way to a T.V. station to do an on air appearance.  Jamie and Daniel, her boyfriend and I were going as the handler for each of the three cats.

 

Daniel was in the back of the bus holding Armani in his lap.  Jamie may have had Jumanji out, but I don't recall and Hercules was in the cage.  I was coming down off the ramp and heard the first voice say, "Hold on tight!"  Immediately the second voice expanded on that and said, "Hold on tight and no one is going to get hurt!"  and then my voice saying silently, "What are you guys talking about?  There isn't anyone around us.  What could possibly..."

 

There was an explosion like a bomb going off in the back.  I looked into the rear view mirror and all I could see inside the van was smoke.  The bus lurched to one side and it was all I could do to keep it from flipping over.  I wrestled it off the road and into a field.  Jamie was already freeing Hercules and leashing him up, with Jumanji on the lead in her other hand.  The smoke was too thick to get to the back of the bus, so I ran around the bus on the outside to the back door.

 

When I opened it, Daniel was sitting perfectly still, staring straight ahead.  Armani was slumped in his arms;  not moving.  Both of them and the entire back of the bus was sprayed with blood.  There was a hole in the side of the bus ripping all the way under the floor where Daniel's feet had been resting so that the ground could be seen beneath his dangling feet.  I didn't know if there was a fire in the bus because of the smoke, so I grabbed Daniel, who had a death grip on Armani and hurled them out of, and away from the van.

 

Jamie had Jumanji and Hercules a good distance from the bus and Daniel was starting to show some sign of life.  We all thought that Armani was dead.  She still hadn't moved.  Jamie and I got everyone into the shade as it was blazing hot that day.  Armani slowly regained (I pause, because it is hard to say what she regained.  It was as if she regained consciousness, but I don't know that she was unconscious, so much as scared stiff and the same seemed to be true for Daniel.)

 

Apparently both of the tires on the back right had blown at the same time and the force of the radial tires exploding into the fiberglass shell of the van had sent millions of tiny shards of metal and fiberglass across Daniel and it appeared that all of the blood sprayed all over the van and the cat was his, but he wasn't bleeding any more.  The smoke was from the rubber on the pavement.  The voices were right.  No one got hurt.

 

From the future, Lenore Infanti says this was probably as we wer

Big Cats Benefit From the Secret

I had always known the secret and was a multi millionaire by the time I was 30, but I didn’t know that I knew the secret until I watched www.TheSecret.tv.  I always believed myself wealthy, even when I was a teenage runaway sleeping on the streets, because I just knew that I was capable of creating my physical reality.  At the age of 16 I was paralyzed in a car accident, breaking my neck in two places, and told I would never walk again, but that didn’t fit the image I had in my mind and in six months I was working as a waitress.  I haven’t had a cold in 9 years because I just tell myself, “I don’t get sick.”  Everyone kept telling me I was lucky and I believed that must be it until I watched The Secret.

 

In 1992 I started the world’s largest accredited rescue facility for big cats; lions, tigers, cougars, bobcats and such.  Even in a post 9/11 world where animal charities are folding all across the nation due to the lack of funding that resulted from the public being deluged with images of Katrina victims, tsunami victims, terrorism victims and war our sanctuary has prospered.  The principals of The Secret at work are what I would attribute that to, but after watching The Secret I have been inspired to fine tune these principals to create the world of compassion that I want to live in.

 

This is a work in process and I have converted The Secret to an iPod movie file so that I can carry it with me everywhere I go.  While I am driving I listen to the soundtrack.  While I am standing in line, I watch and listen, over and over again.  Every time I listen to it, I hear something that resonates in a way that I didn’t quite catch the time before.  While the wealth attraction element of the video is something I am very comfortable with, I am listening intently to try and discern the best way to deal with “what I don’t want.”

 

I don’t want to see lions in circus acts.  I don’t want to see tigers being bred, used for photo booths and discarded.  I don’t want to see bobcats and lynx killed for their fur… and I know now how important it is to re-frame all of those issues into what I do want.  Our web BigCatRescue.org site gets more than 1 million hits per day and I use the site to move people to action by either having them contact their legislators about laws to protect the animals or in educating them so that they don’t support industries that cause suffering and abuse.  So much of the message is negative and I have been asking people to NOT do things, or NOT support things that cause harm, so my challenge now is to find a way to make sure all of this energy is focused on what we do want which is planet that recognizes that we are all ONE.

 

I still don’t have it all sorted out yet, and welcome positive suggestions, but there have been such tremendous successes just since I have started to re-focus on what we do want.  In the past year seven states enacted bans on the keeping of large exotic cats as pets (AR, IN, KY, KS, LA, MD & NY) and several cities and counties have banned this dangerous and inhumane practice. Africa, Australia, Brazil, China, India and the U.K. have all passed landmark legislation to protect exotic cats in captivity and in the wild this year as well.  The Secret is working on a global scale and I am so thankful that you have made this powerful movie available. - Carole Baskin, Founder & CEO of Big Cat Rescue 12802 Easy Street Tampa, FL 33625 

 

This was posted at TheSecret.tv

 

I am envisioning 77,000,000 that will allow me to rescue all of the cats that the USDA currently is unwilling to confiscate from horrid conditions.  We will change the laws to prevent the breeding and exploiting of these magnificent cats and will be able to offer the living ones a place of permanent safety and rest.

 

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

Yesterday was a day of deep reflection for me

Three major facilities going under all at once, leaving so many animals with no where to turn and a

from a couple in Bulgaria who were asking for our help.  255 cats in desperate need and I was struggling to see if I could make room for 2.  It brought home to me a couple of things that I wanted to share with you.

 

We can’t even begin to make a dent in the number of cats that need help by rescuing them, even though that is what ALL of us want to do.

 

But we can stop this from happening over and over again and I think that is the main reason that we are doing okay financially while other places are closing in record numbers.  Our supporters know that we are really making a difference, changing the laws, educating the public, getting involved with the media and changing the way people think about these magnificent animals.  We are not just some stepping stone along the way that is here today and gone tomorrow without having done anything to fix the problem.

 

I know that all of you would rather be rescuing animals, taking care of animals, spending your days with the animals, but instead you are stepping outside of your comfort zones and talking to people, writing to politicians, dealing with the press and really making an impact that is being experienced around the world.

 

When I read that the founder of the Big Cats of Serenity Springs died yesterday at the age of 47 (only 2 years old than I am) and her volunteers were saying they didn’t think they could keep the sanctuary going without her, I couldn’t help but think of what would happen at Big Cat Rescue if I died today…  and realized that I could go peacefully knowing that all of you are so committed and so adaptive that the cats here would never know a day of suffering.  For that, I cannot thank you enough.  For the cats,  Carole Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue

 

I just read your email and it brought tears to my eyes. It was a beautiful letter and I would like to thank you for your heartfelt words. As a mom who has often thought  "what would happen to my children, if I died?", "who would love them and care for them like me?''.  I know exactly how you feel. You, have an amazing staff and a core of volunteers who would never let this Sanctuary meet the same fate as the other facilities.  But, most importantly, if it were not for you, your dedication, commitment, and love, none of this would be possible.  We are spreading the word about these animals because you saw the greater picture.  We would all love to save every animal in the world.  Until that day comes, we can say, we did our best. We are all here, because of your dream.  Thank you, for what you have accomplished and for what you will accomplish.  **By the way, I'm way older than you.  So, I'll be at the "Rainbow Bridge" before you!!!! - Barbara Frank

 

The day before I had gotten a nice note from LaWanna Jones:

 

You have taught me more than you will ever know about being a better and more mature person. YOU have brought so much to my life. I cherish the friendship you have given me.  Actually the first trip to BCR and what I learned there truly changed my life.  So much of what I do and focus on and conversations are about the things I learned there and have learned since.  My life has taken on a different meaning and purpose since meeting you.

 

We were invited to the watch party after the primary election last Tuesday. (We have worked very hard helping campaign for two friends running for state rep, one in this district and one in the next district over, both have been long time carpet customers and friends) Anyway they have read everything I printed for them for months; they have done a bit of research on their own. I can tell by our conversations. ANYWAY, at the watch party I had the opportunity to hand out a paper I made up and speak one on one with a senator and others. Don’t know if any of them will go the list of website links I handed out or not.  Jus

Twice Born

Dear Laura,  While in meditation with Sundari I saw a huge snake, coiling sensuously through the rain forest to a jade green pool as if to lead me there.  (Mind you, in 3D life, I take the opposite course of snakes)  I immersed myself in the pool completely and purposefully drew water into my lungs because I felt certain I should do it.  The sensation of water in my nose caused me to want to cough, but holding back from rejecting the water, I took it in.  I could then see myself from a few feet away, floating in this womb like state. I appeared trancelike.  I got distracted (shouldn’t do this while driving) and didn’t go back to it.  This morning, I looked up Snake and found this:

 

Kundalini takes sexual energy in its raw form and converts it into fine spiritual energy of an extremely high frequency, which then allows the fruition and activation of paranormal activities such as good quality OBE's, telepathy, matter/energy conversion, and communication with entities that inhabit the vast areas of our multi-dimensional universe.

 

Before yesterday, Sundari spent most of her adult life in heat.  She was always soliciting the males (of all species) but now her energy has the opportunity to be so much more productive.

 

Breathing underwater can be likened to creating harmony between the above surface self and the under surface self.  A realization of the entire being.  A immanent birth of an entire being.

 

I am uncertain of what she refers to in her conversation with you.  I don’t feel like I have lost power, because I feel it growing stronger every day, but maybe she refers to some past existence or some alternate existence.  I am already beginning to enjoy the fruits of my labors and every day more so.  Sometimes I can barely imagine it getting better or moving more quickly in the direction that I had hoped.  I often express dismay at not being able to effect change more quickly, but frankly don’t know if I could stand it as the pace is dizzying already.  Perhaps her message through you is to assure me that I can.

 

The notion of being twice born is interesting.  Sundari had a black twin who I was unable to save.  When volunteers came to me and said there was “something gross” in Nyla’s cage I walked out to see what it was.  I wasn’t in any hurry because I was expecting they meant yucky poo or vomit.  In the dirt were two placental sacs and afterbirth.  I ripped open the first sac and pulled Sundari’s lifeless form from the bag.  Wiping the mucous from her nose, I put her muzzle in my mouth and breathed with her until she took her first gasps on her own.  I then turned to the second sac and did the same.  Wow.  Jade.  I didn’t make that connection until just now.  I had called her Jade (as in jade green pool above; gosh the mind is just incredible!)

 

Jade only lived a few days.  She just never seemed to really take hold of life.  I figured she didn’t get the oxygen she needed fast enough for her brain to function fully.  I don’t know how long they had laid there on the ground, but they were completely cold and the blood coagulated.  I had tried as soon as I got the cubs breathing to get Nyla to take them, but she wouldn’t even look at them.  After cleaning them up so they looked like leopards and not like cold slimy dead things, I took them back to Nyla to see if she would take them and she wanted no part of it.  As Sundari grew, I kept trying to get Nyla to take some interest in her, but she never did.  I chalked it up to the fact that these cats are so inbred and have had much of their natural instinct bred out of them by selection of only the most docile (meaning most dull of spirit) for the pet trade.

 

Interesting physical facts, such as dark and light in the womb together.  Light being stronger than darkness and able to over come despite both being born of equal size.

 

“Sometimes this means you have to suffer the loss of what you think you have loved the most.”  I am not sure what or who that is.

Animal Planet Considers Us for a Show

If you haven’t seen The Secret it is in the E Center and it is responsible for us being right on track with our 2006 Vision of having our own local series and a series on the Animal Planet show.

 

Locally, our pro bono CPA is on the board of the Community Network Television channels 19 and 22.  They are going to train Jamie in video production and then make her an Associate Producer for the station which gives her use of all of their equipment from cameras to editing and then she can air all of her work on their stations.  This is all being done for free.  AND…

 

Our pro-bono attorney Russ Alba just got the following email:  Subject: Television Series

 

Dear Mr. Alba,  Thanks for your time.  To reiterate...what we'd like to propose to Animal Planet (Discovery Communications Inc.) is a "fly on the wall" series with "Big Cat Rescue" as our venue.  This would entail some considerable shooting over a period of time, giving the audience (hopefully world-wide) a "through the keyhole" look at the sanctuary, the animals and the people who devote themselves to this truly noble cause.  The series would ultimately be personality driven, the drama, melodrama, comedic and triumphant moments being drawn from the staff, the volunteers...and of course, the animals.

 

While we have proposed the concept to Animal Planet, we have not been specific with venue and style.  The final proposal would be based on our having knowledge of what and with whom we're dealing.  If this is of interest to you, let's arrange to meet.  As I told you, we have a place on Sand Key...and I'm eager to get a bit of Florida summer in my veins.  (How's that for madness!!). Looking forward to hearing from you,  Best, Ron Lyon

 

For a bit more about us, I refer you to our web site, www.wizardsofweird.com or check IMDb.com.

 

Their credits include:

 

Lyon produced and directed some thirty 90-minute specials for ABC, including “Organized Crime in America”, “Manson”, “Hitler” “In Search of Howard Hughes” and “Assassinations: An American Nightmare” from which came numerous awards.

 

Included among his many television films are the highly rated “City in Fear”, starring David Jannsen and Mickey Rourke, “Love’s Savage Fury”, starring Jennifer O’Neill, Raymond Burr and Perry King, “Sins of the Father” starring James Coburn as well as director Jan Kadar’s award-winning film, “The Other Side of Hell” which starred Alan Arkin.

 

As President of Ray Stark’s television company, “Rastar” a division of Columbia Pictures, Lyon acquired the vast collection of Robert Ripley’s “Believe It or Not!” facts and oddities. In 1981 under the banner of Haley/Lyon/Rastar, Lyon created, produced and directed the Ripley’s pilot which spawned the long-running series on ABC starring Jack Palance with Lyon based in Paris as Executive Producer.

 

Subsequent to “Believe It or Not” Lyon’s special “Exploring Psychic Powers” hosted by Bill Bixby featuring James Randi and Uri Geller was a huge international success. After a stint at both Universal TV and Kings Road (as President, Kings Road Television) he and his partner Jenny Paschall launched the Nickelodeon series “Beyond Belief!!” which appeared in dozens of countries and was later the basis of a best selling book written by Paschall, published by Random House. Jenny Paschall went on to write 3 more “weird” trivia books: Hatches, Matches and Dispatches, Odd Laws and Brain in a Box.

 

Lyon and Paschall’s Discovery series “Would You Believe It??” began as a one-hour special/pilot which received spectacular ratings on its June ‘95 premiere on the Discovery Channel. Produced by Lyon and Paschall, directed by Lyon, and written by Paschall this intrepid team’s work continued to run on Discovery through 2004. It can be seen in over 60 countries world wide.

 

Based on the success of “Would You Believe It??”, Lyon and Paschall crafted “Simply Unbelievable” a series which debuted on the Travel Channel in 2001. In addi

I “Resigned” from the Animal Advisory Committee

 

Dear friends,

 

I have resigned from the Animal Advisory Committee and  I will be in D.C. on legislative issues for the next couple of days, so it could be several days before we get a chance to speak with each other.  Because emails have been circulated by those who oppose my efforts and they have engaged the attention of the press, who have gotten a copy of Commissioner Blair’s letter from his office, I felt that I should let you know that you may be contacted by the media for comment and I didn’t want you to be surprised.

 

If these tactics work to remove me from the AAC then it sets a precedence for those that will be affected by the proposed ordinance to have other members, who they describe as “nuts” removed as well.  The work we do is controversial, but we should not be dismissed from our positions without being allowed to face and answer our accusers.

 

Since I am no longer a member of the committee, I believe there is no violation of the Sunshine Law for me to send these letters to you since they are public record and in the hands of the press.  I would strongly admonish all of you, however, not to discuss it among yourselves as Charlotte indicated that it would violate the Sunshine Law for that to happen.  You may contact me individually after Thursday.  The following are the sequence of letters.  Commissioner Blair’s letter below was in hard copy by mail and I have retyped it word for word and can fax you the original if you wish to verify it.

 

Dear Carole Baskin, I wanted to take a moment and thank you for all of your hard work over the past year in service on the Animal Advisory Board.  This community needs volunteers that are willing to serve on the various Boards and Councils to advise the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners on important decisions for this community.  I am thankful for your many hours of dedication and service.

 

However, over the past few months I have received an abnormal amount questions and concerns from citizens and media regarding the eligibility of your participation on the Animal Advisory Board.  I researched some information and although I did not find anything that would exclude you from eligibility of service the constant media contact regarding past history that involved your facility is too much for our staff to continue to handle.

 

Please know that this is a very difficult situation that I am in.  I am going to have to ask you to resign from your position on the Animal Advisory Board immediately.  I appreciate your understanding in this matter.

 

Again, I wanted to thank you for your time of service and all that you have done for the Animal Advisory Board.

 

Regards, Brian Blair County Commissioner

 

My letter to Commissioner Blair dated 6/4/2006

 

Commissioner Brian Blair

County Center

601 E. Kennedy Blvd., 2nd Floor

Tampa, FL  33602

 

As the sanctuary has become better known and more financially stable, it has allowed me to become more active in what can really end the flow of abused and abandoned big cats, i.e. passing legislation that would end the activities that create that horrible flow.

 

The forces that oppose such legislation are largely people who want to own these animals as pets or use them to make a living.  A recent undercover report by API shows how these people circumvent the current laws and shows the abusive conditions in which these alleged “exotic animal lovers” keep their “pets.” This can be viewed at www.api4animals.org/a3b_exotic_pets.php.

 

My role in promoting legislation to end this abuse has grown dramatically within the last year.  Representative Poppell  specifically asked me to appear with him and his cosponsor Senator Posey at the press conference announcing what became known as the “Python Bill” this past session.  The bill was directed at the horrible situation in the Everglades where pet pythons released into the area are taking over and wiping out the native wildlife at

Exploiters Attack Animal Advisory Committee

This was an email from Carole to Howie explaining who was behind the campaign to remove me from the Animal Advisory Committee.

 

Complaint by Exotic Pet Owners Uniting c/o Penny Stoven at justbarnyard

 

I don’t know if she is just beyond understanding, or if she doesn’t want to understand.  She doesn’t want her chat list EPOU.org to be listed on our web site and asked me to remove it, but it was in the body of the letter we wrote to Commissioner Blair because Raven Simons had cross posted it from EPOU’s site to the Phoenix Exotics site and that is where we found it to include in our letter to Commissioner Blair to show him this was an organized effort of the exotic pet people to discredit Big Cat Rescue by having me removed from the Animal Advisory Committee.

 

I explained to her that I couldn’t delete a portion of the letter because I was showing to the world the entirety of  what had transpired.  Neither she, nor her organization were referenced at all, as it just happened that the email had their address in it.

 

This is the substance of what she is complaining about, which was in the body of the letter to Commissioner Blair:

 

…Below is an email being circulated by these people to generate the emails that you no doubt will have received from this group over the weekend.  Since they are urging that they be sent by Sunday June 4, I suspect they somehow know that I have a tentative appointment to see you in a tiny gap that you may have in your schedule, although I understand it may close if you run late.

 

Below is the email that was circulated to generate emails to you this past weekend:

 

From: EPOU On Behalf Of Raven Simons Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 5:59 PM To: Subject: [EPOU] FW: FL Animal Rights activist removed from Animal Advisory

 

Hello all,  I am asking an important favor of everyone. Please write a thank you letter to Mr. Brian Blair for removing Carole Lewis Baskin (Big Cat Rescue and Humane USA) from the Hillsborough County Animal Advisory Committee. Carole is having a fit at being removed. Mr. Blair needs to show community support on this decision.

 

To all the bird people- This is the women that posted our names and address on her Humane USA website.

 

To all the pet owners- I welcome anyone to attend the meetings with us. This group called the Animal Advisory committee are nuts. They are extreme in their views.

 

Please feel free to forward this email to supportive individuals. We need as many letters as possible by Sunday 6/4/06. Anyone and everyone can write a letter, not just Hillsborough County people. This effects any animal owner. Counties tend to follow each other's lead.

 

Animal rights activist do not have a place on an advisory committee. They have a personal agenda that is not in anyone's best interest, including the animals.

 

Mr. Blair can be reached at [email protected] . I am including the letter that I sent.  Thank you,  Lisa

 

(Carole’s note: I am not sure if this letter was from Lisa Walker or Lisa Welch, but both were animal exploiters who hated me.)

From the future; this is who Lisa Walker was & how it turned out:

 

2010-09-09 Brian Blair lost his seat as Commissioner in the election.

 

2010-09-23 Jim Norman appointed Lisa Walker to the Animal Advisory Board.  She was one of the people who filed one of the false BBB complaints against us.

 

When Carole Baskin and Big Cat Rescue became known for trying to stop the trade in exotic cats as pets, several of the exotics dealers enlisted pet breeders to began slandering her in an attempt to draw the attention off the subject; Dangerous Animals as Pets, which is not a subject anyone can defend, and try to misdirect attention in any way she can.  Carole Baskin had advocated strongly for laws that banned dog fighting in 2006 and 2007.  Carole had been appointed to the Animal Advisory Committee and was elected President with a primary task of reducing the euthanasia rate in Hillsbo

Mayan Calendar

Laura Lassiter:  The Mayan Calendar indicates this is the big kick off date for planetary enlightenment and I am thrilled to be here in 3D.  This is a chronological exchange in reconnecting with Laura Lluellyn Lassiter:  5/16/06 Dear Laura, I am looking for a woman who recently visited Big Cat Rescue with the EARS group.  I gave a tour to a group and was particularly impressed with an animal communicator in the group and would like to reach her, but no one could tell me her name.

 

5/17/06 Hi Carole,  You found me. I am the animal communicator that helped to volunteer. If you would like to talk with me on the phone, my cell is 727-804-6939. I am impressed that you had my email address.

 

I have not had the opportunity to write you a personal thank you note yet for taking your time and introducing all the beautiful cats you are caring for. Words cannot express the magnitude of gratitude the animals feel towards you, Carole. What a blessing to live your passion on a daily basis and help bring awareness to their plight. It was my honor and privilege to be there and experience their presence. I would like to take this opportunity to give thanks not only for the tour, but for all you are doing for the big cats.  I look forward to speaking with you and to help you however I can. Have a good day.  For the animals, Laura

 

5/17/06  Dear Laura,  Finding people is what I do best.  I probably should hire out to law enforcement.  At any rate, I am very glad to have found you.  After the tour, I just kicked myself for not asking you for your contact info because I was so struck with your insight.  I don't have any immediate reason for contacting you other than to let you know that I enjoyed your interaction with the cats and your ideas in the session after the tour.

 

It has been my intention to hold some little workshops for our people to teach them non verbal communication with the cats, but it is just something I do and not something I have ever tried to teach.  I think you could do a much better job of it.  I remember you saying you were not from around here, but I don't know where you call home.

 

I am starting these classes on the third Monday of the month and this month we are going to watch The Secret.  If you haven't seen it, I think it is the best 5.00 and 90 minutes I ever spent online at www.TheSecret.tv  If you would consider being a guest speaker at one of these classes or at our monthly volunteer meeting which is usually about 45 people on the first Sunday of the month at noon, we would love to have you.  Just let me know what it would take, if you are willing.

 

Thanks for the kind words.  I am fortunate to be surrounded by incredible people who have made the sanctuary all that it is.  For the cats, Carole Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue

 

5/17/06 Hi Carole,  First, I just moved off of Clearwater Beach to the Snell Isle area in St. Pete. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, I have been here since 1989. I apologize for any misunderstanding as I have never considered myself being from Florida. Travel, therefore, is no problem. I had been considering volunteering some time previous to my visit when I met someone at Panera who told me of a black cat that was being read to every Sunday. What an incredible thing to do! However, the opportunity had not presented itself for me to visit your facility until the EARS workshop as I support myself as a loan officer and unfortunately in recent times, have worked 14-16 hour days. I have just started to transition as the consciousness has been evolving towards remembering a universal language for some time.

 

I gladly welcome the opportunity to share with you and your volunteers any knowledge that might be useful. My abilities as a communicator are quite different than most as I never lost my awareness and intuition as a child and was always encouraged to use it. Therefore, it is natural to read and translate energy and address the core issues and permanently resolve t

Why Did I Choose To Be Born?

If my gestation period were 9 months, that means that somewhere around September 6, 1960 when I decided to manifest myself on the physical plane again, so I got to wondering, “why?”  What was happening in the fall of 1960 that made me want to come back and make a difference?  (My email address at this time was [email protected])

 

In October Jane Goodall observes tool-making by a chimpanzee, calling the attention of science to the practice. She sees a chimp that she has named David Graybeard take a blade of grass and shape it so that it can be poked into a termite mound for the purpose of removing termites. David proceeds to eat the termites so obtained.

 

Echo, the first passive communications satellite, is launched on August 12 as a result of efforts by John Pierce.  Other communications-satellite developments are by the U.S. military. On May 22 Midas 2, the first U.S. spy satellite designed for detecting missile launches, relays information it obtains with infrared cameras to Earth. On August 18 the military satellite Corona, publicly known by the civilian code name Discoverer 13, is launched. It successfully returns a capsule to Earth -- the first object ever returned from space. A week later Discoverer 14 uses cameras designed by Edwin Land to spy on the Soviet Union, parachuting canisters of film back to Earth, where they are captured in air by specially equipped aircraft. They are said to yield more images in a single day than the U-2 spy system had in its entire lifetime. There will be more than a hundred similar missions in the Corona program, which continues until 1972.

 

In November Digital Equipment Corporation led by Kenneth Olsen introduces the PDP-1, a computer with a maximum memory of 26,000 bytes, making it state of the art. It is the first commercial computer with a keyboard input and a monitor to show what the user has entered. Because of its size and configuration, it is the predecessor of the minicomputer, a computer affordable by small businesses.

 

The first commercial reprocessing plant for radioactive wastes is built in West Valley, New York.  

Physician John Charnley [b. Bury, Lancashire, England, 1911, d. 1982] implants a two-part joint replacement made of plastic and cobalt-chrome into a human to replace a damaged joint.  Wilson Greatbatch [b. Buffalo, New York, September 6, 1919] files a patent for an implantable pacemaker that permanently regulates heartbeat.

 

About this time some women enlarge or reshape their breasts with a semiliquid plastic in a bag that is implanted in the skin; the plastic material is silicone, familiar to many by its trade name as the toy Silly Putty. About 2,000,000 women will use the implants in the next 30 years.

 

August 29, 1960 Hurricane Donna kills 50 people in FL. Oct. 14, 1960 Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy participate in the first T.V. presidential debate. Nov. 1, 1960 JFK announced his idea of a Peace Corps.  Interracial marriages are illegal in 31 states.  February 1, 1960 the first blacks contest segregated tables and after 6 months of protesting are granted the right to eat with whites.  March 6, 1960 Switzerland gives women the right to vote.  May 9, 1960 the FDA approved the birth control pill.

 

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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90 lb. Florida Panther, in a dog trap, in a garage

 

(Photo is 5/15/05 Sundari Leopard smacking my hair.)

 

I had just gotten in from a three hour meeting of the Animal Advisory Committee where we had wrestled with the long range goals of Animal Services and how we would be able to stop the flood of animals in the front doors to be euthanized because people didn’t want them any more.  How could we fund education and aggressive spay / neuter programs in a county government fraught with cut backs?  How could we stop the killing of 34,000 healthy dogs and cats each year in an environment of thought that could only do more of what wasn’t working by building more places for people to bring their pets to die?  It was a topic worthy of the energy we had all put into it tonight, but at the end of the night all we had managed to do was suggest that an outside consultant be paid to tell us how to do it and we would leave funding the implementation to another day’s discussion.

 

Being away from my computer for 3 hours means a pile of emails will have collected and standing at my desk I began to sort through them.  I really wanted to go to bed, so not sitting down seemed to me, as if it say, I was not committed to answering all of this mail, but would see if there was anything that just couldn’t wait until morning.  Then the phone rang.

 

The voice on the other end was shaky, female and began, “I got your number from the answering machine, and I’m sorry to call so late, but I have called everyone I can think of and Fish and Game said they would send someone yesterday, but they never did, and the trapper said he will just euthanize the cat, and the cat is scared, and I am afraid he is going to die, and if I let him loose someone is going to shoot him.  It’s a big cat.  I think it might be a Florida Panther.  It weighs 90 pounds, is three feet long, has VERY big teeth and his paws are as big as my hands.  I caught him in my garage.  He has been tearing up cats in the neighborhood and some are missing.  I think he ate them.  I caught him in the trap with some cat food.  He just fills up the entire trap…”

 

I don’t know how long she went through her description before I spoke.  There was no hurry to speak as she was just flowing with information.  I jotted down the details as I silently pondered her authenticity.  I have been outspoken against people breeding and selling exotic cats and have committed much of my time to trying to stop the trade.  I had become the target of a segment of our society that is comprised largely of drug dealers, criminals and those just too ignorant or uncaring to see that their participation in the industry causes such suffering for the animals.  In their chat rooms they had suggested more than once that the only way to stop me was a bullet.  Was this call in the middle of the night a set up for just such an opportunity?

 

Was this woman’s voice shaking because she was lying and involved in something that could send her to prison?  The notion of a 90 lb. Florida Panther, in a dog trap, in a garage, in a waterfront community like Apollo Beach, was pretty far fetched.  Is that why Fish and Game had not responded, or did she just say she called them first so that I wouldn’t?  I queried her more, asking the same questions in different ways.  If she was lying she would get tripped in her own tale and if she wasn’t she would surely think that I was an idiot who just couldn’t get the picture.

 

After a while I decided that no one could have made up a story like hers and told her I would be sending our Operations Manager Scott and our own licensed trapper to see if she changed her mind about wanting someone to come right away.  Her only concern was if our trapper was of the same conviction as the one she had called earlier and I assured her that we would not kill the cat.  She gave her contact info and it all matched up with the public records.  She was in a high rent district that was not consistent with wher