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In 1992, Don Lewis and Carole Lewis (now known as Carole Baskin) acquired a bobcat.The following year they acquired dozens more. [14] In 1995, they incorporated Wildlife on Easy Street, Inc. in Florida as a Not For Profit Corporation with the stated purpose of "acquisition, shelter, feeding, breeding and socialization of exotic and non-exotic animals; public education and awareness to benefit ...
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (WKRG) — As Hurricane Milton threatens the Gulf Coast, volunteers have gone above and beyond to save 15 cats from a shelter in the storm’s projected path. The rescue ...
A tiger at Baskin's animal sanctuary Big Cat Rescue in 2012. At the age of 17, Baskin worked at a Tampa, Florida, department store. To make money, she began breeding show cats [11] and used llamas for a lawn trimming business. [9] [11] In January 1991, Baskin married her second husband, Don Lewis, and joined his real estate business. [9]
Alley Cat Rescue is an international nonprofit organization, headquartered in Mount Rainier, Maryland, that works to protect cats using trap–neuter–return for community cats; rescue, and neuter before adoption; promoting compassionate, non-lethal population control; and by providing national and international resources for cat caretakers. [2]
Online pet adoption sites have databases, searchable by the public, of pets being housed by thousands of animal shelters and rescue groups. A black cat waiting to be adopted. Because of the superstitions surrounding black cats, they are disproportionately more common in shelters than in the general population and less likely to be adopted than ...
TAMPA, Fla. (BLOOM) — Peter Palermo, a 14-year-old Boy Scout from Tampa, completed his mission on October 5, 2024, to help some of the most overlooked dogs at the Humane Society of Tampa Bay ...
An animal rescue group or animal rescue organization is a group dedicated to pet adoption. These groups take abandoned, abused, or stray pets and attempt to find suitable homes for them.
Being the most visited zoo in the United States and in the world, for several years Disney's Animal Kingdom located in central Florida has had over 10 million visitors a year. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This is an incomplete list of existing, reputable zoos in the United States .