2012-06-18 Carole Diary

Carole Baskins Diary

Cats We’ve Offered to Take

Some cats you might never meet are those that we are asked to take but who never end up here because their owners would rather send them somewhere awful than to contract with us to never own another exotic cat. The following are just the ones so far in 2012.

1/26/12 A Serval is “found” wandering and a man emailed and asked if we would take the cat. When I told him that we would need him to contract with us not to own another exotic cats he responded by saying he had sent it to the Conservator’s Center in NC.

5/1/12 Holly MacCluen said she found a Savannah Cat and asked us to take her. We were able to convince her to keep the cat herself.

5/3/12 Kate Carpenter said she thought she had bought a Savannah Cat, but it turned out to be a Serval and she wasn’t licensed to keep it in FL. We offered to take her if Kate would contract with us not to own another exotic cat but she responded by saying she sold the cat to Drinkwater Cattery in Hudson, FL to use for breeding more hybrids.

5/20/12 An 80 year old woman in MI has a pet serval that she can’t care for any more so a friend of hers contacted us to see if we would take him. We said we will, if they will contract with us not to own another exotic cat, but so far they haven’t done so.

6/8/12 John Culbertson in Ohio responded to the new law that will require him to register his animals in order to keep them by trying to unload them. He is trying to dump 2 tigers, 2 lions and a cougar. We have asked if he will contract to never own exotic cats again, but he has not responded.

6/10/12 We were not contacted in advance about this tiger, but on ExoticAnimalTV.com Joe said that he just rescued a starving 17 year old tigress from a pet owner in CA. Thinking she is a purebred Sumatran tiger (very unlikely) Joe said he wants to get cubs from her before she dies.

We had also offered to take the bobcat and cougars from the Collins Zoo raid last year, but they went to Carolina Tiger Rescue and Wildcat Sanctuary. In reading their newsletters I see that there is some concern that the Collins Zoo owner may be able to get the cats back. I can’t even imagine how awful it would be to rescue animals from conditions like this photo and be compelled by the court to send them back.

6/14/12 We were asked to take a Jungle Cat hybrid by the "Bengal Cat Rescue" group because they said she had come, along with a number of hybrids from a hoarder. We said we would take her just to keep her from ending up back in the trade, even though we typically do not rescue domestic hybrids. They took issue with the fact that we do not condone the trade in hybrids and said they would find her another place, more in line with their beliefs. The cat bites, sprays and is by their own description far too wild to be kept as a pet, so they might change their minds.

Above is from volunteer newsletter today.

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