It is end of days for the big four “Tiger Kings” of America. One of these prominent big cat exploiters was (his days are numbered) the exotically named Bhagavan Doc Antle. He has been indicted on various animal cruelty charges and he will, hopefully, follow the path of his associates and end up out …
There is going to be a follow-up to the highly successful documentary seriesTiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness. I did not see Tiger King because I don’t subscribe to Netflix but it is the story of the conflict between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin and the big cat private zoo business in the US. …
Carole Baskin, the owner and CEO of Big Cat Rescue (BCR) in Florida, who has been in the news a lot recently because of the Netflix documentary about Joe Exotic A.K.A. the “Tiger King” has criticised Cardi B, an American rapper, because she used big cats in a video to promote her song (WAP …
No, big cats do not play with laser pointers. We can thank Big Cat Rescue (BCR) for finding out conclusively how big cats relate to laser pointers. The term “big cats” is rather vaguely defined but for the sake of this article I’ll state that they are the lion, tiger, leopard and Jaguar. BCR …
I thought the news was quite shocking, really, but in an interview with an author on the Insider.com website Baskin said that she might not be able to reopen her sanctuary to the public once we get back to normal (whatever that will be) when the coronavirus pandemic is over. It is not just …
What about the ethics behind the current world’s largest cat, Apollo, bred by Doc Antle?
The world has heard about Joe Exotic, 57, not because he had the largest private zoo on the planet for many years but because of his feud with Big Cat Rescue’s Carole Baskin which ended when Mr Exotic was convicted of conspiring to murder her (murder for hire and animal abuse). Mr Exotic is …
To those sceptics of Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue who claim that she is not concerned with big cat welfare but with making money, I’d like to point out that she has been campaigning for the passage of an important bill in the United States Congress, the Big Cat Public Safety Act, since …
