Big Cat Rescue is a permanent sanctuary home to more than 100 tigers, lions, leopards, bobcats and more. This channel releases two or more episodes each week that show the inner workings of the world's largest accredited sanctuary for big cats.
Big Cat Rescue's Scott Lope voted Animal Planet's Hero of the Year 2009! A huge THANK YOU to everybody who voted for Scott! We celebrated at Whiskey Joe's, 7720 West Courtney Campbell Causeway Tampa, FL. Scott's win means that Big Cat Rescue will be receiving $10,000 to help with our mission and Scott will get a well deserved vacation! Once again thank you to all the people who voted, our grr-eat volunteers and to all our supporters around the world! WE'RE MAKING A DIFFERENCE! HAPPY NEW YEAR! :) For more info about BIG CAT RESCUE visit: http://www.bigcatrescue.org Find us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid... MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/1bigcatrescue TWITTER: http://twitter.com/BigCatRescue DONATE: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/donate.htm THANK YOU!
Christmas at Big Cat Rescue! For grrr-eat gifts visit our giftshop online: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/giftshop.htm Happy holidays to all our supporters! Music provided by - Kevin MacLeod For more info about BIG CAT RESCUE visit: http://www.bigcatrescue.org Find us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-Cat... MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/1bigcatrescue TWITTER: http://twitter.com/BigCatRescue DONATE: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/donate.htm THANK YOU!
See why big cats make bad pets
BOBCAT HIT BY CAR & SURVIVES! The bobcat was rescued on 11/30/09 after being netted in a retention pond and transported to FVS - Florida Veterinary Specialists, where the $4000 surgery was performed to repair Bellona's shattered leg. Read the full story and DONATE here: http://bit.ly/7VErLR For more info about BIG CAT RESCUE visit: http://www.bigcatrescue.org Find us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-Cat... MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/1bigcatrescue TWITTER: http://twitter.com/BigCatRescue DONATE: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/donate.htm THANK YOU! If you text TIGER to 20222 *A one-time donation of $5 will be added to your mobile phone bill or deducted from your prepaid balance. Standard messaging/data rates may apply. All charges are billed by and payable to your mobile service provider. Service is available on most carriers. Donations are collected for the benefit of the Big Cat Rescue by the Mobile Giving Foundation and subject to the terms found at http://www.mobilecommons.com/t/. ...
Vote Big Cat Rescue America's Favorite Shelter: A free way to help Big Cat Rescue win $10,000 is to vote for us in America's Favorite Animal Shelter contest, sponsored by Care2 and Adopt-a-Pet.com. It is a chance for animal lovers everywhere to raise awareness of the need to adopt shelter and rescue animals while helping Big Cat Rescue win a much-needed donation. You can only vote once and the last day to vote is Dec. 16, 2009. Vote here: http://bit.ly/15FUl8 Read about Bellona's rescue here: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/
GOT A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT? Vote for Big Cat Rescue to win $1,000,000! http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/ THANK YOU! When a raccoon was spotted above one of our snow leopard enclosures, BCR staff and volunteers sprang into action! The raccoon had a plastic jar stuck on it's head and was very distressed, Scott managed to net the raccoon and the jar was dislodged. The raccoon was fine and was released far away from the big cat enclosures!
TIGERS ON FACEBOOK! Help Big Cat Rescue win $1,000,000 for the cats! http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/ Chase bank has announced an online voting contest for small nonprofits. There are 100 prizes from $25,000 to $1,000,000! Even at 500 pounds of raw meat a day, that would insure the cats get fed for many, many days! The voting is done on Chases Facebook page. It requires a few steps, but if you follow the instructions below it only takes one minute. We know you are busy, but are hoping you will donate that minute of your time to help us win. Not on Facebook? If you do not have a Facebook account, you can set one up in about 60 seconds and can delete it later if you find you do not want it. http://www.facebook.com/ To set it up, just go to www.Facebook.com, fill in the six boxes with name, email, password (must be at least six digits), then click skip this step or skip on the screens that follow.
The Jungle Cat is one of the smaller cats species we have at Big Cat Rescue. Listen to Operations Director, Scott Lope talk about the Jungle Cat and the problems they are facing. For more info about BIG CAT RESCUE visit: http://www.bigcatrescue.org Find us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-Cat... MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/1bigcatrescue TWITTER: http://twitter.com/BigCatRescue DONATE: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/donate.htm THANK YOU! If you text TIGER to 20222 *A one-time donation of $5 will be added to your mobile phone bill or deducted from your prepaid balance. Standard messaging/data rates may apply. All charges are billed by and payable to your mobile service provider. Service is available on most carriers. Donations are collected for the benefit of the Big Cat Rescue by the Mobile Giving Foundation and subject to the terms found at http://www.mobilecommons.com/t/. You can unsubscribe at any time by texting STOP to short code 20222; HELP to 20222 for help.
Watch the release of baby bobcat Hope in this 14th episode of her life.
Tigers, Lions, Cougars, Caracals...Watch these BIG CATS acting the fool! Big Cat Rescue, Tampa FL is home to over 100 unwanted, abandoned and abused exotic big cats. For more info about BIG CAT RESCUE visit: http://www.bigcatrescue.org Find us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-Cat... MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/1bigcatrescue TWITTER: http://twitter.com/BigCatRescue DONATE: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/donate.htm THANK YOU!
Lion + Tiger = LIGER! freckles was rescued from a failed backyard sanctuary in mississippi Dec 2008. 16 year old Freckles is one of the oldest Ligers around but she is one of the most recent arrivals to Big Cat Rescue. At the time of her rescue we could see a big hole in her jowl, and feared that it would lead to her demise, but she was in such bad shape that we just couldn't risk knocking her out to get a better look. Being a cranky old cat, she wasn't about to let us get a good look any other way either. She was given antibiotics in case it was just an injury, but now that she has become more calm in her new setting we can see that the problem stems from several broken teeth. Caged cats will often break off their teeth trying to chew their way out of their prison cells and when she was left behind to die in Mississippi she probably did just that. The dental work was completed on Freckles without any problems and she as made a full recovery. Let's hope that the dental as taken away her pain and she ...
!!!SERVAL RESCUE!!! Help us name our newest resident, please leave suggestions for this female serval! An African Serval was limping along in the Arizona desert until she collapsed alongside a road. She had almost completely given up the will to live. She was probably a pet or perhaps used in the hybrid breeding scheme that has become all the rage where Servals are bred to domestic house cats to produce Savannah Cat hybrids. The domestic cats are often killed in the process. The kittens sell for thousands of dollars, but when they mature they typically spray and bite and make awful pets. The hybrids are usually discarded by the time they are two or three years old. To learn more about the serval, watch our species spotlight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVgfCs08x2s For more info about BIG CAT RESCUE visit: http://www.bigcatrescue.org Find us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-Cat... MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/1bigcatrescue TWITTER: http://twitter.com/BigCatRescue DONATE: ...
LION ATTACKS!!! - Warning DO NOT watch this video if easily disturbed! The really disturbing thing is that in over half of the USA people can LEGALLY go out and buy a lion or tiger and keep it as a so called "pet" !!! To help us end this abuse please visit: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/laws/laws.htm Together we CAN make a difference!
Freckles the LIGER and Alex/Cookie her two tiger companions were rescued from Mississippi in december 2008. The Fur Ball is Big Cat Rescue's largest fundraiser of the year, thanks to everyone who made the event a roaring success, this helps us provide the best care for our cats and helps fund future rescues :) For more info about BIG CAT RESCUE visit: http://www.bigcatrescue.org Find us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-Cat... MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/1bigcatrescue TWITTER: http://twitter.com/BigCatRescue DONATE: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/donate.htm THANK YOU!
Cheetahs are the fastest land mammal! Capable of reaching speeds in excess of 70mph they are an amazing animal, unfortunately their numbers in the wild have dropped drastically in the past 100 years. Namibia is one of the last refuges of the remaining world Cheetah population. A quarter of all the remaining cats are found in Nambia. It is estimated their numbers globally have declined by over 90% in the last 100 years. A local thorn bush species is invading the savannah in the country, causing over US$90 million each year in lost revenue to Namibian farmers, whilst also destroying the native habitat of the fastest of the cats. Now the Cheetah Conservation Fund has pioneered a scheme to clear the thorn bush and turn it into cheap fuel briquettes. The project is creating jobs at the same time as helping to restore the hunting ground of the endangered cheetah. Vote for the Cheetah Conservation Fund "No Beating About The Bush" at: http://www.theworldchallenge.co.uk/vote.php Voting ends 13th November ...
TIGERS: Majestic, powerful, beautiful, ENDANGERED! September 27th 2009 marks the 9 year anniversary of International Tiger Day. Started by the Phoenix Fund, a Russian non-governmental organization in 2000, the celebration of all things TIGER is now an annual city holiday in Vladivostock with 300+ participants! To help celebrate International Tiger Day 2009, Big Cat Rescue is discounting their tour price by 10% from Sept 27th - Oct 3rd, to anyone who mentions the words "tiger conservation" or "international tiger day". Also for all orders of $50 or more in our online pro store, customers will receive a free plush tiger! Visit our online store here: http://www.bigcatrescue.biz/servlet/StoreFront Thank you to Tiger Awareness for the images of tigers in the wild: http://www.tigerawareness.co.uk/ and to Wildlife Heritage Foundation for the image of an Amur Leopard: http://www.whf.org.uk/ Thanks for watching and please join us in celebrating the TIGER! http://www.bigcatrescue.org/
!!!Vote SCOTT LOPE - Animal Planet HERO OF THE YEAR!!! http://animal.discovery.com/roar/hero-of-the-year/vote/ Scott Lope is the Director of Operations at Big Cat Rescue and has dedicated his life to caring for abandoned, neglected and orphaned big cats for over 10 years! You can vote every day until september 27th, every vote counts! Cast your vote here: http://animal.discovery.com/roar/hero-of-the-year/vote/ THANK YOU!
!!!WATCH THIS RARE FOOTAGE OF A SNOW LEOPARD "CHUFFING" HELLO TO BIG CAT KEEPERS!!! Even though Snow Leopards are classed as a greater cat just like the lion and tiger, it cannot roar like it's relatives! They can hiss, mew, growl, wail and chuff however, watch this rare footage of HERCULES our male Snow Leopard chuffing at his BCR friends! Learn more about the Snow Leopard here: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/snow_leopard.htm Hercules info: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/captive/snowleopardshercules.htm !!! HELP BIG CAT RESCUE WIN $50,000 IN ADVERTISING ON FACEBOOK!!! If you have a Facebook account please visit: http://apps.facebook.com/voteforacause/ Vote for Big Cat Rescue everyday until 9/20/2009 and send invites out to friends to do the same! Winning this contest will really help us get more exposure about the problems we are trying to solve! THANK YOU! * Thanks to Jessica Nicholas for the footage of Hercules chuffing :)
NEW MISSION: Download the Extraordinaries iPhone app and help Big Cat Rescue find illegal breeders and animal abusers! There is only one reason that lions, tigers and other big cats are suffering in captivity: We haven't gotten to the root of the problem...yet. The problem is that there are still some uneducated people who fuel the trade in big cats and a very few truly evil people who capitalize on their ignorance. Those of us who know better, or at least have a more humane inner moral compass, far outnumber the abusers and their supporters. PLEASE HELP BIG CAT RESCUE END THE ABUSE OF BIG CATS! Download the iPhone application here: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/beextra.htm http://www.theextraordinaries.org/download.html http://www.bigcatrescue.org/ Thanks for watching!
This film features the rescue of the three Cougar cubs, Ares, Orion, and Artemis and was first shown at the 2006 Fur Ball.
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