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News/opinion article: The news is that Joe Exotic (real name: Joseph Maldonado-Passage) has been sentenced to 22 years in jail for abusing big cats and trying to hire a hit man to kill Carole Baskin the CEO and founder of Big Cat Rescue (BCR) – conspiracy to murder. He was planning to kill her …
This is a further and final follow-up post in the saga of Joe Exotic’s trial for a federal murder-four-hire plot to kill Carole Baskin, the Big Cat Rescue founder, last year. His real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage. The online news media (and me!) can happily report that he has been found guilty as charged, …
In the trial of Joseph Maldonado-Passage aka Joe Exotic, a man, Allen Glover, testified under oath that Joe Exotic gave him $3,000 to cut the head off Carole Baskin the well-known founder, owner and manager of the equally well-known Big Cat Rescue in Florida. It’s extraordinary. Glover said he had no intention of following …
I wrote about Joe Exotic years ago (link) and discovered then that he was the owner of America’s largest private zoo (another link). He is obsessed with big cats and he said that the tiger would be extinct in the wild in the not too distant future. Well, he is certainly contributing to that …
This is a moral and ethical dilemma as much as a practical problem. Big Cat Rescue (BCR), a controversial wild cat sanctuary in Tampa, Florida run by Carole Baskin, say that they have to feed specially bred live rabbits to two captive bobcats who are destined to be returned to the wild because it …
By Steffanie (a visitor to PoC who wrote long comments related to my article: Is Big Cat Rescue a Sham?) Introduction by Michael (Admin): Steffanie makes a lot of strong statements. These are her opinions and her statements are allegations and accusations and no more unless proven or accepted and established. I am publishing her …
Whether they are wild big cats, or the sweet miniature predators – the domestic house kitties that grace our hearts and homes – they all need love, safety and protection. Carole Baskin, the founder and CEO of Big Cat Rescue (BCR) provides her cats with all of these crucial ingredients and deeply enriches their …
I made a post about Big Cat Rescue (BCR) 9 months ago. I said I admired the work of Carole Baskin (formerly Carole Lewis) the founder. BCR was called Wildlife on Easy Street (WOES). I have been constructively criticised recently about this post. I am pleased to be corrected when I am wrong. It …
