Confessions of a Big Cat Owner 

Bet you're just making that up you little shit

You don't have nothing stop

Sam Ciskowski why are you insulting me? is it because you feel safe behind your fucking desktop screen?

You dont have a tiger so stop the bullshet

Luis Colon we got rid of him longtime ago

Mad9977 What about domesticated cats? They come from the wild just like big cats and are put in tiny cages where they can barely move around and no one calls that abuse.

AnimalLover who puts his cat in a tiny cage? That, for sure, is called Abuse.

Mad9977 I know quite a few people who do that.

AnimalLover sad enough, as always the humans are worse than the animals.

True, it was sad for me to watch those cats in those cages as well. But at least she fixed her mistake. Many crazy people just don't realize how stupid they are being. She is the only one I have seen who realized and fixed the situation to the best of her ability.

I agree the cages are torture doe these big cats - She obviously loves cats so she should go to the humane society and rescue 25 house cats and be happy - Owning big cats is a selfish ego trip - But I guess she has rescued some of these cats from worse conditions

Sanctuaries are pretty much the same 🤷‍♀️

Sun Lover cannot watch this either. Stopping now. Hurts too much

Sun Lover You should have watched it dumbass. These animals aren’t her pets. They do go to sanctuaries.

Sun Lover they moved them to a sanctuary

Absolute scum. It is so tragic to see that animal in a cage. Pathetically sad. Who the fuck do you think you are? You have absolutely no right to hold those animals and keep them as your "pets". You might as well call it furniture, because that's how you treat those animals.

Lord Frieza bug cat rescue is actually one of the only legit ...

I actually think her way of treating the cats were a better option, at zoos: they get tortured, underfed and forced to do tricks infront of flashphotagraphy, shouting people and keepers hurting them. The way she had them: small cages but not as small as the ones on zoos. They were wellfed and had toys and clean cages, no crowds of people shouting and no flashphotagraphy. No whipping or hurting them. The Tigers seriously chuffed when she came close! Tigers chuff when show affection! She also freely gave them away so the tigers could live in a biiig sanctuary! Zoos and private owners often FIGHT before letting the tigers go. So no. Not worse than the zoo since they actually freely was giving them away, they were wellfed and had good energy.

T Story Time truth

T Story Time it looks to me like they lure cat out in small cage with food.. the small cage has a door to close after coming from Bigger enclosure.. they probably do it to clean big cage and feed..

sheit I do that right now

That small cage had an opening in the back into a larger cage. So it’s not as bad as it looks, but still sad.

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Joanne Davis There can be! It's moving through congress now. Www. Bigcatact.com Write/call your state senators

What about alligator I don't hear nobody crying over them

And them.

***** yep. except for those hunted by poachers. Contributing to the extinction of the specie..

as much as i would love to agree with you, you are wrong about the 4000 tigers left in the wild.. there are less than 2500.. and that is absolutely heart breaking.. you obv care so please spread the word for people to NOT go to circuses that have exotic animals or petting zoos that pose as conservationists because they just supply the trade. i do that to everybody i meet and they hear me whether they like it or not.. if i can convert one person to not do that then i consider it a success and EVERYBODY should do the same

I totally agree that keeping tigers in a 10x10 cage is abuse. But you can't just put these tigers back into the wild. They need to be in an enclosure with at least a few acres to roam on. Better yet, they should be kept on an enclosed wildlife preserve, with great owners who really understand what tigers really need.

Julie Blackburn she should have never had them in the first place... people should know better.

Valkyrie B they were rescued from aweful conditions, and moved onto the best lives they could have, they are not pets! They needed help, we were there for them! We were just a stepping stone and made sure they were safe an well cared for at their new homes😉

90Kirame Like it's right to breed domesticated pets and hoard them and cannot take care of the domesticated pets cause there are too many and end up having to put them down. I know people who are like that.

That's just as wrong imo. You just don't hoard animals, whether they're exotic or domesticated. If you take yourself a cat or dog or any animal you'll need to take care of it for its whole life. Just taking them in and letting them live like a swarm of rats is as far from caring as it gets. Unfortunately there are way too many people who do this. And even sadder is that putting down domesticated pets is simply so easy it's not getting as much attention in media as, for example, having to put down tigers and lions.

90Kirame Same with exotic pets. If you take yourself a tiger or a lion you'll need to take care of it for its whole life. But barely anyone can do that because they are trying to make it illegal for people to own them for no reason.

AnimalLover "For no reason"? There are plenty of good reasons why people shouldn't keep exotics as "pets". As much as you tell yourself and everyone else a tiger has been hand-raised from a tiny cub, it's still a wild animal. Even during playing it can kill you. Have you heard of a child who was let into a cage with a tiger and lion? The tiger attacked the boy and the lion tried to save him. He dragged the child from his neck and broke his spine by an accident. That kid is never walking again. Not only is it dangerous to people, but the animals as well. Do Average Joes have enough money to ensure the best possible lives for the animals? Even most zoos can't do this. For the start, tigers roam hundreds of square miles in the wild and regulations in the US say the minimum size of their cage is as tiny as a parking space. That's just wrong. Can they afford a proper diet? Proper enclosures with real soil and vegetation, enough room and enrichment? Can they see if there is something wrong with the animal? Felines do not show their suffering and even if there WAS something wrong you can't see it with bare eye without any kind of education. Can they afford annual checks and veterinary care or even find a vet to do all this? Can they afford surgeries should there be need for one? Even if they had money, would they BOTHER do all this? Call me a pessimist but I very highly doubt it. Taking GOOD care of one tiger costs about 10000 dollars per one year. How many private owners do you think are offering all this to the animals? ^Just the tip of an iceberg here. These are mostly just money-related issues, not to mention the lack of knowledge, some tragic accidents like hurting yourself and suddenly being unable to care for the animals. Losing your job so you'll no longer have money. Divorcing and losing your house. With cats and dogs these questions are much simpler, but when we're talking about tigers and lions you can't just pack them into carriers and take them with you. People are known to keep these animals in garages and I saw a video of a tiger who had been living in a van through its entire life. Just watching him walk wrenched my heart out. It's becoming illegal because people have proved themselves they're unable to take care of these animals and many times are putting therm, themselves and others at risk. I visited a sanctuary in South Africa and the lions were in horrible shape there. Their previous owners had fed them PASTA and they were small and deformed and weak. It's heartbreaking what people think they can do to the animals because they "own" them. It's kinda wrong to say there's "no reason" for these new laws and legislation when there are more than there should have ever been. I hope this helped you to understand the problem.

90Kirame Domesticated cats come from the wild and so do dogs, and they are kept in worse places than these exotic pets are. Yet no one is banning us from keeping dogs and cats. There are more deaths from a dog than from an exotic pet, yet there are billions of people keeping them. Dogs are kept in kennels which are so small they can't even turn around and no one calls it abuse. I would never put my dog in a kennel. And what about vet bills for dogs and cats? It's also expensive. Domesticated cats are just like big cats, you can't tell if there's something wrong with them. I've seen people feed their dogs rice, is that the kind of diet a dog needs? Dogs and cats are abused worse than an exotic pet is.

She knew that. Her cats were rescued from bad owners who tortured them.

If she returned them they would be died in a month

These cats were all raised in captivity. They don't have the skills to survive in the wild.

First off, your grammar is horrific. Secondly, you can have snakes as pets, and even tigers and bears if that is the only option for the animal. You're tell me if an abused tiger that has been in the circus its entire life is rescued from the circus, then you are just going to "put them in the wild". You are offering the tiger a death sentence by doing that. The tiger needs to be put in a good wildlife preserve and kept there with great owners who understand tigers. Not like this old lady who is so old she is getting kidney surgeries and having no one to take care of her damn tigers. Tigers can be kept as pets, but only in extreme circumstances, and NOT by your average pet owner.

Tom Smith "You're tell me...." Your grammar needs work too. ;) Anyway, there is a difference between rescuing an animal and retiring it to a sanctuary vs. keeping it as a pet. Pets are the ones who usually are rescued and end up at sanctuaries People choose to keep exotic animals as pets whereas rescues take them because they have no where else to go. We want to stop people from having pet tigers and lions because the inevitably end up dead or rescued anyway and sanctuaries are running out of room and money. The word "pet" and "tiger" or "lion" or any other large, exotic animal should NEVER be in the same sentence. If you ever visit a true sanctuary, don't ever refer to the animals there as the sanctuary's "pets". The last thing they want is to perpetuate the idea that these big cats belong in homes or backyards. The whole reason they're in the sanctuary to begin with is because they make BAD pets and their previous owners found out the hard way.

de facto pets

Actually, female tigers are speed bred in captivity to produce 2-3 litters a year. It is a money racket. In the wild a female has one litter every two years and those cubs are with her for two years of their life learning their survival skills from her.

In the United States the laws vary from state to state. I would be very surprised if every state has stamped out this sort of cruelty. Or even most of them.

Your comment made me laugh.

Crusader1815 they didn't live in the lock downs, the small cages attached much larger areas, whatever they are great now living a even better life, and I'm proud to see it through they deserved it! These cats were all rescued from different situations, if not for us they would have died! It's people who don't know the facts that place judgement, we did what was best for them, we never did anything to exploit them nor did we gain financially on them at all!

Those life forms would be dead without her. Now that they are here it pleases me that she is willing to go out of her way, to make those cats safe. I wonder why you don´t. I agree with you that they should have never been imprisoned in the first place. The way you say it make you sound like a total idiot.

So, just because humans kill animals. we should take them from the wild and put in little cages? and gave them to people so they transform them in pets? Shouldnt we protect their natural habitats indeed? She believes animals serve humans, because she believe a tiger might be held in captivity just for her entertainment. That's a sort of "serving humans"