FLORIDA — Most of the significant cats at Carole Baskin’s Florida animal sanctuary profiled in Netflix’s “Tiger King” series will be relocating to a sanctuary in Arkansas and Significant Cat Rescue’s land will eventually be offered.
“Huge Cat Rescue has entered into an arrangement with Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, an accredited sanctuary in Arkansas, to transfer most of Big Cat Rescue’s cats to Turpentine Creek exactly where we will continue to fund their care for the rest of their life,” Howard Baskin, Carole Baskin’s spouse, said in a memo.
When all the cats at the sanctuary have been moved, the Hillsborough County sanctuary home will be offered, and the proceeds will be made use of to “fund these species-preserving jobs in the wild,” in accordance to the memo.
“We have constantly reported that our goal was to ‘put ourselves out of small business,’ indicating that there would be no large cats in want of rescue and no will need for the sanctuary to exist,” the memo read. “Supporting our cats in more substantial enclosures at Turpentine Creek, at a lot decrease charge for every cat than we incur by continuing to operate Massive Cat Rescue, will cost-free up means to enable us do a lot far more to help you save massive cats in the wild.”
In 2021, the US Household of Reps handed a invoice, the Large Cat General public Basic safety Act, to prohibit unlicensed people from proudly owning tigers, lions, jaguars and other wild animals. Lawmakers released the laws following “Tiger King,” the well-known docuseries about an eccentric keeper of significant cats in Oklahoma, drew awareness to the concern.
“With the passage of the BCPSA we count on the have to have for rescues to drop about the coming 10 years. If the want were being going to continue at the speed we saw up right until a few several years back, we would be earning a unique selection,” the memo read through.
“Getting ended most of the abuse of massive cats by way of the BCPSA, concentrating on the 3rd prong of our mission, i.e., maximizing the sum we can donate to in situ projects to help save the cats from extinction, is the very best way to satisfy our mission and affect the most cats going forward,” the memo added.
Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge announced on Facebook Thursday that they will be taking in 35 cats from Massive Cat Rescue as part of an growth program, “making a sustainable long term for animals rescue.”
“Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge was approached and asked to take in BCR remaining cats,” the announcement browse. “BCR no more time conducts rescues and will be pivoting their ambitions. There is no qualified affiliation among TCWR’s possession, functions, or management and BCR.”
