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My complaint is Big Cat Rescue, and the founder Carol Baskin, and the more I find out about her and the supposed rescue the more of a rancid flavor it leaves in my mouth. I became aware of Big Cat Rescue while researching Bengals, a hybrid cat I was interested in purchasing one. I found article in which Mrs. Baskin disparaged Bengals, claiming this cats were vicious, unpredictable, attacked pets, children, adults and the elderly, were a nuclear warhead for wildlife and would create a super cat in feral colonies that would prey upon even natural predators. Not to mention that she claims hybrid cats use owner's house as a urinal. I was applaud, and after finding actual real partial research I welcome two Bengals into my home within the last the last couple of years.
I recently become reacquainted with Big Cat Rescue because of the hybrid ban she and several other sanctuaries and animal advocacy groups introduced in California and Florida. Through researching big Cat Rescue, I found that Mrs. Baskin, the founder of this BCR is a con artist, liar, and is a horrible person. Who knows her past since it changes to fit her moods. In some she was her second husband's mistress and in her new version they became friends and later lovers. She is the reason he was wealthy. It must be nice to rewrite your past. She and her second husband breed exotic cats and currently most of her cats are from her own breeding program or from the exotic pet trade, which does not mean that the cats were abused as Baskin claims. I give her credit, she is well versed in writing tales of woe that have befallen her supposedly abused cats. But it is a rarity if even half of it is true. Why does she do this? Because abuse stories pulls at heart strings and brings in bigger donations. There is a paper trail which clearly show her purchases and births of her cats, and plenty of ex employees and volunteers she has bullied. She is not satisfied with only lying about her animals, she lies about other cat sanctuaries, because she does not want competition. Mrs. Baskin enjoyed her life as a millionaire, and uses the donations for her personal piggy bank. She gives herself a very generous salary and still lives high on the hog, while her cats, do not get the best of care as she claims. Many of them die of cancer because the land they live on was a land fill. So the water those animals drink and play in are contaminated. Her enclosures for the money she takes in should be much better, and she has been fined many times for lack of care and for unsafe enclosures. Many people have been hurt by her cats, from escaping, or when she allowed people to interact with her big cats. Baskin is a horrible person, who truly does little to help big cats. Anyone stupid enough to ignore the overwhelming evidence of fraud, lies, and immoral of her character and the people she surround herself with is just stupid. BCR should be closed down and Baskin should face charges of slaunder, fraud, and misuse of donations. Oh, she does not believe a word she says about hybrid cats. She stated in1995 that F2 Bengals made wonderful pets, and had a soft pelt. She also owns her own personal Savannah that lives in her home. I would love her to explain the picture with the cat wrapped around her neck. In all, I hate her, she also works hand in hand with HSUS. In all she is nothing but a very talented con artist. One day, she will get hers. Oh, and she said she loves animals, yet sat by as horses were being abused right nwxt next to her. She only loves money. She also called owners of hybrid cats animal abusers, she is one to since she owns one!
Common Sense is a house cat. It is a mix between a Asian Snow Leopard and a domesticated cat. This is what I own, and they are considered house cats. They are quite lovely, and look like small panthers. Many look as if they as if they walked out of the jungle. These are domesticated cats and do not belong in a cat sancuary!
Linda Sue, I totally agree with you about how they abuse rabbits. It is utterly disgusting that they use domesticated bunnies. Bunnies are loving social animals that bond deeply with each other and their guardians. Baskin teaches the interns to relish the kills, which is just depraved and speaks of her demented character. If you look up her album there is a picture of volunteers happily displaying deceased rabbits that the bobcats obviously killed but did not consume. I have written a partner in a ban against hybrid cats, the ALDF about my concerns towards the rabbits and the abuse the horses next door were enduring, and why it was never reported. it was all ignored. Live animals are not needed to rehabilitate bobcats in the wild. There are many professionals that have advised BCR of this and this issue is ignored. You might want to look up pictures of BCR and there is that sickening picture of her interns. I sincerely hope your group stop her from abusing rabbits. As a lover of animals I only feel disgust for what she does to those poor creatures. It seems as if hybrid cat owners will be victorious in stopping her ban in California and in Florida. I wish bunny lovers victory on stopping her abuse of rabbits.
Do you pay for my pets? Do you pay my bills? Of not, how I obtain my pets are not your business!
Anyone who supports the breeding trade has no credibility criticizing anyone.
Stop supporting breeders and go to your local shelter and adopt. There are so many cats and dogs needing homes, we do not need to support the breeding trade!
ADOPT DON'T SHOP!
People animal owners need to neuter the animals and stop breeding or allowing your male to impregnate a different breed, just look at all the sorrowful mix breeds that are dumped on side road cause of careless owners, Humane society could never keep alive all these unwanted animals and even though they claim “ no kill” they do not have room for all nor all get adopted or too aggressive so they have to be put down.
We put our own pets down when they are suffering and no longer able to enjoy life but we have the a great little animal cemetery on our 60 acre farm . BTW if any negative remarks, out Veterinarians knows this as he cares for all our animals but when he can not do anymore he allows us, my husband to put the animals down and it is a family thing to say goodbye to a part of our family
Carole baskins killed 2nd husband (whom she carried on an affair with for many years btw). He had told his lawyer and secretary that she threatened to shoot him, hid his gun, and he had tried to get a restraining order on her. She turned in paperwork pertaining to his will where she had added dissapearence days before he went missing. It's so obvious she is a nut. She also relishes in torturing rabbits. She proclaimed herself "the mother Teresa of big cats" but she is actually "the con artist of big chumps". They need to do some new digging into Don's cold case investigation. She is a terrible person just look at the people who she has destroyed just because she disagrees with their ideals. She is always throwing dirt when she has a graves worth of dirt herself.
Carole needs to be put out of business for her poor treatment of animals and if she would murder her own husband than why would she care about any breed of animal or have any morals. Joe Exotic takes excellent care of his exotic animals. Carole should not be allowed to own any of these exotic animlas! She is nonthing but a gold digger and a murderer as well as her daughter! Stop Carole Baskin!
This has been going on far to long. Baskin needs to be stopped, jailed and forced to pay back all the people she has duped and be looked into again for the murder of her husband as well as all other of these "So called Rescues" The laws are way to weak and need to be changed and ENFORCED. No more payoffs without hefty fines and jail time to all involved. Animals deserve just as much respect and quality of life as we do. I hope other read and signs this. THE ABUSE AND CRUELTY STOPS HERE
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Do a little research, and you'll find plenty to complain about, on this Big Cat Rescue outfit, headed by a "black widow, " Carole Baskin. Do a search for Don Lewis, for starters. That's the husband who people say is under the septic tank -which coincidentally was being installed at the time he went missing. Then there's all the animals they bought together, and the ones still surviving she now claims were "rescued" from incompetent and/or abusive owners. The incompetent owners are her and her daughter themselves. She speaks out against paid exhibits of exotic animals and the practice of photographing people with exotics. Yet she herself charges an arm and a leg for tours of her own ramshackle "sanctuary." There is a fairly recent photo circulating the Internet, of her current husband, Howard Baskin, holding a baby tiger with an ear-to-ear grin. Hypocrisy? You bet. She attacks breeders, mainly because her own attempts at breeding failed miserably. She attacks rehabilitation efforts... A group of bobcat cubs all died due to her own efforts to "rehab" them. She mounts attacks on other sanctuaries or private zoos every time there's a single death or injury, whether to humans or animals, yet downplays the many accidents, maulings, and deaths at her own roadside menagerie. HSUS won't say anything bad about her, since she has made some hefty contributions to them, out of the donations she received, that were supposed to be earmarked for animal care. Like I say, do a little research and you might be surprised at all you find!
Sanctuaries and Ethical rehabs do not torture and kill helpless animals, factually unnecessary and truly heartbreaking. http://causes.worldpeacemeet.com/stoplivefeeds/shame-of-bcr/
To common_sense_is-gone - "Baby Bengals" are not tigers, as from your response I can take that you think they are. Bengals are hybred cats that are a cross between a Asian Spotted Leopard Cat (a small species of cat) and a domestic house cat. So PLEASE research what you are writing about.
Instead of contributing to the breed. If you are such an animal lover your should BE ADOPTING A CAT FROM A SHELTER instead of paying a breeder. HOW DISGRACEFUL!
I am new to this site and I saw your title of your post. I am a huge animal lover and do what I can for many animal charities. So I thought maybe I could help the cats in some way. I have to ask who in their right mind buys baby Bengali's? Why would you encourage more suffering on these poor animals?
Your home is not where they belong, if there was no demand to buy them then there would not be poor animals living in extremely bad conditions. As you say you have researched these cats you would be aware of the huge needs, How much money does it cost to feed, house and provide all they need? Have you taken steps for their care should you die?
Its people like you who are causing so much misery for these exotic pets
More information on the hybrids from Carole Baskin-Big Cat Rescue/Wildlife on Easy Street (BCR/WOES) Lies, Fraud and Deception-In her own words. Over and over again we see her deceiving the public for donations-In my opinion, animals in actual need of 'rescue' should NEVER be sent there as they will be euthanized or die a short time later. Owner of the larges collection of dead cats anywhere in the United States should be her actual her actual claim to fame. Her late husband a cold case that can not be solved-He was declared dead by her although no actual body has ever been found. After inheriting millions on his supposed death, became a SCAM-tuary. Built on an old landfill in Florida with the cats provided water from the old retention pond. It's no wonder the most these deaths have been from cancer or tumors!
Carole Baskin is no stranger to bad legislation to end contact with big cats. Already helped to create bans that are unacceptable.
Joined at the hip to HSUS and adapted to their standard of ending all relations and contact with animals has shown her true self when she attacked the hybrid house cats that are not considered anymore than a regular house cat and confirmed with FL-FFW ...Time this woman be taught a lesion and just maybe the owners of hybrid house cats will be the one's to stop her.
http://topcatsroar.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/a-rebuttal-using-baskins-own-video-exotic-cats-as-house-petslies-fraud-deception/
Yes u are correct as when I was looking to get a large cat a cheetah or smaller Ocelot I had bought several books on subject so to educate myself and joined a big cat book that had education training, legislation on owning these beautiful animals but being a smart owner and provide the best for the animal and Carol Baskin ( I mistaken In my several post wrote her last name as Bassett, my error ) Big Cat rescue was like a super star in the industry at the time with loads of great remarks on her saving neglected unwanted big cats but I educated myself enough to decide to not be owner of exotic Cheetah or Ocelot . I have my German Shepard and take in unwanted ferrets if not wanted .