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Programa del dijous 14 de desembre. Començam avui amb David Vidal, Director Insular de Reserva de Biosfera de Menorca per parlar del cas dels turistes que roben l’arena de les platges. I entrevistem també Manuel Molina, president d’ABADA, l’Associació Balear d’Advocats pels Drets Animals per tractar l’actual llei de Benestar Animal.

Entrevistam Manuel Molina, president d’ABADA, l’Associació Balear d’Advocats pels Drets Animals per tractar l’actual llei de Benestar Animal.

As freezing cold temperatures remain in Utah. Advocats with Unsheltered Utah, built an unsanctioned makeshift warming tent on monday. The tent was equipped with propane fires and chairs. Wendy Garvin, Executive Director of Unsheltered Utah joins the show to explain the efforts and the issue of homelessness and the city. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Possibly the oddest episode in our long 11 show history. But in a good way.The important part is Laura Anderson explains how the Aledo AdvoCats help our local families in need.We also discuss methods for getting more tips, Conjunto music, plus 40-something males' WWII documentary obsessions.  

The guys and gals go unscripted and discuss naming one's car, bar fights, how musicians make money (or don't), the Aledo AdvoCats and some exciting, super-topical hot button issues from this week.

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Aquest divendres al col.legi d’Advocats de Tarragona, José Miguel Cañete ha jurat el càrrec com a nou comissari del cap provincial de la comissaria del Cos Nacional de Policia a Tarragona. Cañete ha recalcat que continuen les amenaces de la globalització, l’ús fraudulent de les noves tecnologies i la delinqüència itinerant. Ha esmentat que aquests […] L'entrada Jose Miguel Cañete, nou cap provincial del Cos Nacional de Policia a Tarragona ha aparegut primer a Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona.

This month we take a deep dive into the issues of local authority enforcement and lets with pets. Presenters NRLA CEO Ben Beadle (@BeadleBen) and Richard Blanco (@richardblanco_)  are joined by NRLA Policy Officer Sam Watkin, co-author of the NRLA's recent report on the enforcement lottery when it comes to local authorities and their approach to housing standards in the PRS. The report shows an alarming disparity in levels of enforcement by local authorities against poor property conditions, and Sam explains both the findings of the report and its recommendations. Elsewhere Dan Cumming of the NRLA advice team talks about the Supreme Court's decision to reject a further appeal IN the long-running Trecarrell House case – and what this means for landlords. And finally Jen Berezai, of pets charity AdvoCats, will talk about the challenge of finding pet-friendly lets and the legislative changes Government could make to mitigate the risk to landlords. If you enjoy the show, please spread the word on your social media channels using the hashtag #listenuplandlords.   For all podcast enquiries email press@nrla.org.uk   ACCREDITATION: You can now pick up a CPD point to be used towards NRLA accreditation by listening to the podcast. To log your point, visit the accreditation dashboard in the ‘Your Account' section of the NRLA website. Select ‘Other' then ‘NRLA Podcast' from the dropdown menu.  More information  To read a full transcript of the show and to listen click here.

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2015 Annual Report   This is a playlist of our most recent videos and an easy way to see what we have been doing at Big Cat Rescue.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QKQ3naQyag&list=PLsmHBgbkKIERsX0faHHQWq9UdQskxJnVJ   With your help we are winning in the battle for compassion! Up until 2003 the number of requests for rescues we had to turn down due to lack of space or funds had roughly doubled each year, to 312 that year. We feared it would double again to over 500 in 2004. Instead, it has steadily declined since then thanks to the passage of a federal bill and several state bills that restrict the ownership of exotic cats. This year there were “only” 19 big cats who came to our attention as being abandoned. We were able to take in  4 tigers, 1 leopard and 7 rehab bobcats.   We offered to take 3 more of the cats if their owners would contract to never own another exotic cat.  The cats we did not take were those whose owners refused or another sanctuary offered space first.  There is no point to our taking in cats just so an owner can go buy another cute cub to use and discard.   Another great result of more bans on private ownership is that the number of killings, maulings and escapes are on the decline in the U.S. as well.  In 2015 there was one mauling in NE, 6 escapes (CA, IN, MI, NC, OK & WA) and 13 confiscations (OH).  These events involved 14 tigers, 1 lion, 1 liger, 1 leopard, 1 cougar, 1 cheetah, & 1 serval.   Animal Care   Abandoned Big Cats 2015   2015 was the second best year for big cats.  “Only” 19 calls for rescues came to our attention and the only year with fewer was 2011.  As more states pass bans and partial bans, fewer and fewer big cats end up in peril.   Rescues   Rescued 12 exotic cats, including Tigers: Emily, Jessica, Lily and Teisha, a Leopard named Shadow and Rehab Bobcats: Journey, Phoenix, Captiva, Rain, Dancer, and Mr and Mrs. Claws.  Emily, Jessica, Lily and Shadow (NKA Sapphire, Duchess, Jasmine and Jinx)are still part of a lawsuit, so they are just boarded here until it is resolved.  We were called out on a total of 12 bobcat calls this year, which is three times higher than any previous year.   Newborn kittens who are brought to Animal Control are routinely killed because with their immature immune systems they do not survive in the shelter environment.  So we began a foster kitten program with our interns as the fosters in 2013  We have saved 275 kittens from being killed.  We raise them until they are 2 pounds and healthy, then bring them to the Humane Society of Tampa Bay to be fixed and adopted out.  You can watch our foster kittens in their play room live every day at http://explore.org/live-cams/player/big-cat-rescue-kitten-cabana   By the end of this year,  we have 88 exotic cats and 66 of them are over the age of 12.  56 of those are over the age of 15; and 20 of those are over the age of 20. This is well beyond how long they are designed to live in the wild and much older than most zoo cats. This is a testament to the excellent animal care we provide, but we are dealing with many more age related illnesses and are losing more of our big cat friends every year.   Windsong Memorial Hospital   Thanks to the generous donation of an X-ray machine, followed by many donors chipping in to fund a proper building for it, the Windsong Memorial Hospital broke ground in 2014 and had its first big patient by January 2015.  We have had over 90 veterinary procedures since then, further validating the need for this wonderful hospital.  Thank you to everyone who helped build and outfit it so that our cats don't have the stress and danger of travel to an off site clinic.  We still need a sonogram machine to be fully self contained, but that requires specialists to operate them, so it was last on our list. Award Winning Sanctuary   Top Rated Non Profit at Great Non Profits   We have received this award every year since they started awarding it in 2010 due to the many great reviews we get from visitors and donors each year.   2015 Give Day Tampa Bay as the winner of the most prize money and winner of the most donors on that day.   We again received Charity Navigator's highest four star rating and are the highest rated wild animal sanctuary in their numeric scoring system.   Outreach: Education & Advocacy   In 2015 we hired Jennifer Leon as the Director of Outreach. Jennifer manages our education programs, advocacy campaigns, and community outreach activities.   Education   We gave 70 educational tours to school and community groups last year and did dozens of on-site presentations at schools throughout Tampa Bay, including 27 presentations provided by senior BCR volunteers through Hillsborough County Public Schools' SERVE Volunteers in Education program.   We once again participated in the Great American Teach-In. Big Cat Rescuers spoke to over twelve hundred students between kindergarten and eighth grade at schools in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk, Pasco, and Manatee counties.   We also engaged with students from across the country and globe assisting and collaborating on school projects and university research papers, as well as facilitated school and scout fundraising projects to help the cats and educate students.   In an effort to educate broader audiences about the plight of captive big cats and reach those who can vote for and promote legislation to protect big cats, Big Cat Rescue was represented at conferences across the United States. We were very successful at actively engaging new supporters and getting wide spread support for our federal bill.   Advocacy   Prior to bringing back the Call of the Wild in Fall of 2015, visitors to the sanctuary had two opportunities to advocate for big cats. At the start of the year our guests submitted hundreds of comments to the FWC in support of stricter regulations for captive big cats in Florida. Throughout the Spring and Summer, 2,670 guests took the Pledge to be Circus Free upon returning from their tour. These actions are in addition to the thousands that signed the pledge online and hundreds of AdvoCats who submitted comments electronically to the FWC.   We have also expanded engagement with our AdvoCats. There is now an active AdvoCats Facebook group where AdvoCats can be part of the big cat community, posts action alerts, discuss the issues, and take action on alerts and activities led by Big Cat Rescue. It has also become a forum for us to highlight the many successes of our AdvoCats – from hosting protest rallies and tabling events to publishing books and blogs promoting the welfare of big cats.   Community Outreach   Big Cat Rescue continues to be a valued member of the Tampa Bay community. We participated in a variety of free family events such as EcoFest, VegFest, and St. Francis Day blessings. We've had the honor of speaking at various philanthropic clubs and collaborated with groups throughout the state for the benefit of big cats and community.   BigCatRescue.org gets about 2.5 million unique visitors per year. Our website is primarily an educational tool and according to Alexa we are ranked 113,078 worldwide and 34,572 most visited website in the U.S. in 2015 which was more than doubling of our site's popularity over 2013. We have 998 other sites linking to us.   Our web site addresses local and global concerns about environment and has over 10,359 pages of information, movie clips, sounds, safe interactive online games with a conservation theme and photos. In any given week the visitors will be from more than 200 countries outside of the U.S.   The information provided has helped wildlife rehabilitators identify animals and obtain proper care instruction and helped officials in smuggling cases to identify rare species of exotic cats being illegally traded.  Those are just a few of the ways that we know the site has had an impact this year.   Legislation   The steady increase in legislation banning private ownership represents recognition by our society that private ownership leads to widespread abuse.  Social values evolve.  It took decades to ban slavery in England and for women to win the right to vote in America.  Those ideas started out as “radical” and were held by a small minority.  Gradually more and more people understood and agreed until they became a part of our value system that we take for granted today.   The same trend is happening with private ownership of exotics.  Gradually more and more people are realizing that this simply leads to widespread abuse of these animals.  The best evidence of this is the accelerating trend in state laws.   Just since 2005 nine more states have passed some level of ban.  Internationally 40 countries have banned or restricted the utilization of big cats in circuses.  It is time for the U.S. & South Africa to do the same!   We invited our on site guests to call their Senators and Representatives asking them to support the Big Cats and Public Safety Act this year, resulting in 1,100 calls made from guests at Big Cat Rescue and many more that they made from home afterward.   One of the most painful things we did this year was to change service providers for our advocacy and customer management.  We really liked Voter Voice and Blackbaud, but the two platforms just didn't play well together and after much agonizing we decided to move our entire database of visitors and donors and all of our advocacy work into Salsa.  That happened in May, so the figures below are only from about June through the end of 2015.   While we wish that more than 14% of animal lovers on our mailing list would take the time to speak up for the animals, the ones who did were awesome.   Some of the wins from these campaigns were:   1. 46 Representatives joined the 2 bill sponsors by co sponsoring the Big Cat Public Safety Act (HR3546) 2. Delta agreed to stop shipping in big cat trophies. 3. A lion cub who was being beaten up by his father at a backyard zoo was transferred to another facility. 4. More than 2,000 people spoke up for the Florida Panther when the Florida Wildlife Commission tried to abandon their recovery.   Imagine what we could have accomplished if just 25% of our mailing list were to take action for the animals?  This is an easy, no cost way for us to have a huge impact collectively.  If you have not yet been active in taking action when we send alerts asking you to email a legislator, regulator or venue hosting an abusive animal exhibit, please make 2016 the year you join in.   You CAN make a difference – the many supporters who do send these emails have proven it!   The most vivid example is our having gotten owners of over 200 malls to agree not to allow cub petting exhibits, saving all those cubs from a miserable life on the road and being sleep deprived as they are handled or restrained for photo opportunities hour after hour.   You can make ending big cat abuse part of the legacy of your life with just a few emails each year.   Big Cat iBooks and eBooks   LaWanna Mitchell is an amazing woman.  She started out as a volunteer and became a remote contractor for us years ago.  She lives in Missouri, out in the country with her horses, and I get emails from her telling me that she just spent the last two hours, up on a step ladder with a blow dryer trying to melt the ice off her antenna because she doesn't want to lose another day of working online.  On those days when she is just completely snowed in, she just can't stop working and has taught herself how to build books in iBooks for iTunes and for Amazon.   The iBooks currently in iTunes are: • Common Myths That Fuel the Cruel Big Cat Selfie Trade • The Dunking, Two Tigers & A Lesson in Friendship • The Elusive Sand Cat • The Black-footed Cat • Shaquille Shattered Dreams • Who Is Big Cat Rescue? • Tigrina or Oncilla • Black Panthers Fact or Myth • China Doll Loves Her Pumpkin • What Do You See? • Meet JoJo a Wildcat Hybrid • Lions of Big Cat Rescue • Bobcats of Big Cat Rescue • Big Cat Attacks • Big Cat Care: How To Start A Sanctuary • The African Wild Dog •  • The Kindle Books currently in Amazon are: • Bobcats of Big Cat Rescue • The Dunking • The Elusive Sand Cat • The Black-footed Cat  • Big Cat Attacks • Lions of Big Cat Rescue • What Do You See? • The African Wild Dog   Wins for the Big Cats in 2015   11/3/15  WA voters on November 3, 2015 overwhelmingly approved Initiative Measure 1401, introducing state-level felony penalties for the purchase, sale, and/or distribution of products made from elephants, rhinos, lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, sea turtles, pangolins, sharks and rays.   10/22/15 Elkhart, TX passes a ban on dangerous wild animals, including nonhuman primates, skunks, jaguars, leopards, lynxes, tigers, lions, panthers, bears, coyotes or any other carnivorous wild animal or reptile within the city limits or one mile of the city limits. This ordinance is retroactive with no grandfather clauses and the fees are also retroactive as well.   9/25/15  Netherlands became the tenth country to officially ban the use of wild animals in the circus! The ban, which was drafted back in 2014, went into effect this week and includes big cats, elephants, giraffes, zebras, sea lions and primates.   9/22/15  Shriner and head of “Fun Time Shows” Bill Cunningham joined forces with PETA to stop using wild animals at the Shrine Circus. http://cw33.com/2015/09/01/shriners-peta-heated-battle-over-animals-in-shrine-circus/  Cunningham said the trailers that had been used to haul wild animals to shows will now emptied and covered in banners to advocate against the use of wild animals in performances.   9/15/2015 Missoula, MT is the first city in Montana to ban the use wild and exotic animals in shows and non-educational displays.  The City Council approved the measure on an 8-3 vote, saying it was time to apply what “we know versus what we do” regarding the treatment of animals.   8/3/2015  “Effective immediately, Delta Airlines will officially ban shipment of all lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies worldwide as freight.” VICTORY!! Big Cat Rescue asked you to let Delta Airlines know that animal lovers do not want international airlines to continue to transport exotic animal trophies such as Cecil. More than 5,000 of you took action for the big cats!!! And today Delta has finally agreed. This is fantastic news for all endangered and threatened big cats and other animals being hunted across the globe.  Its announcement came as a group of airlines including Air France, KLM, Iberia, IAG Cargo, Singapore Airlines and Qantas signaled last week they would ban the transport of trophy-hunting kills.   8/1/2015  Zimbabwean wildlife authorities say they have suspended the hunting of lions, leopards and elephants in an area favored by hunters following the killing of Cecil the lion.   6/27/2015  Costa Rica just became the first country in Latin America to ban hunting for sport. Costa Rica's Congress voted unanimously to approve the ban, which will protect the country's wildlife – including several species of native big cats. Any hunters caught breaking the new law will face jail time or hefty fines.   3/14/2015  South Dakota became the final state (50th) to enact a felony provision for animal cruelty.  These laws typically do not protect wild animals or farmed animals, but it's a start.   3/5/15  Ringling announces that they will phase elephants out of their acts and we are all hoping tigers are phased out as well.   2/4/15  Hollywood Animals announces they are getting out of the big cat rental business because CGI has replaced their industry.   2/5/15 Asheville, North Carolina for banning circuses with wild animals! Read an article about it: http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2015/02/04/asheville-animal-cruelty-circus-ban-us-cellular-center-elephant/22889259/   2/5/15 Graystone Ranch in GA surrenders their USDA license and gives their wild cats and other animals to sanctuaries citing that they are tired of the business.   Fundraising and Marketing   We continue to be very happy with Zerve as our ticket retailer.  In 2014 Zerve sold 18,553 tickets that netted the sanctuary $712,093.00.  In 2015 Zerve sold 22,494 tickets that netted the sanctuary $871,626.90.  The increase was due, in part, to selling more of the higher priced tours.   Big Cat Rescue was reported favorably in the news 280 times in 2015.   Some of our national press has included shows on  CNN,  MSNBC, National Geographic, Animal Planet, Discovery and the History Channel in addition to such publications as USA Today, National Geographic and the New York Post and major media coverage in several other countries as well.  Big Cat Rescue has been in the press in 42+ states including AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, GA, FL, HI, IA, ID, IO, IN, IL, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, VA, VT, WA, WI & WV and dozens of programs of national or international coverage or in countries other than the U.S.   YouTube and Discovery's Revision 3 continue to send us a lot of traffic.  Thanks to this partnership and cross promotions with Animal Planet, we are experiencing more than 3 million views of our YouTube videos per MONTH!  By 2015 year end we had 602 videos with 262,474 subscribers and 124,022,664 views.   YouTube Mini Clip Site:  DailyBigCat was launched Nov. 20, 2010 to provide a channel for the mini clips we upload directly from our iPhones.  By year end this site had 685 videos, 11,946 subscribers and 2,320,523 views.   Facebook:  We surpassed 1,836,499 fans on Face Book   Google +:  This is a new social site for us in 2013 and we have already reached 473,854 fans on this venue.   Our Education Director took on Twitter to ramp it up and ended the year with 17,100 followers.   A huge shout out to everyone who has donated items from our Amazon wishlist and who has chosen Big Cat Rescue as their charity of choice in https://smile.amazon.com/   Got Roku?  If you do, then you have more than 600 episodes of Big Cat TV waiting for you for FREE in the Channel Store! Series include our best videos from each year going back to 2007. Big Cat Vets, Cat Chat Show, and Big Cat Rescuers, our weekly big cat reality show.   Big Cat Rescue has an Endowment Fund to provide a secure future for the cats. The Fund resides at the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay.  Periodically the Community Foundation offers a matching program where the nonprofit sets a fundraising goal and when 75% of the goal is reached, the Community Foundation provides the remaining 25%, which effectively is a 33% match of the funds provided by donors.   Saving Wild Places for Wild Cats   In 2015 Big Cat Rescue donated $23,100.00 to conservation programs.   $3,000 to Build a Boma via Nat Geo initiative in S. Africa (from our Wildcat Walkabout event)   $3,000 to Lion Guardians in Africa (from our Wildcat Walkabout event)   $9,100 to the Small Wild Cat Conservation Foundation   $8,000 to Felidae Conservation Fund   Plus we are the largest retailer of Erbis Enterprizes products which are made in snow leopard regions, by local craftsmen.  The funds they get from our gift shop sales of their handicrafts enables them to sustain periodic loss of livestock.  Villages must ensure that no snow leopards are poached in their areas in order to benefit from the program, so it makes everyone a park ranger.   Helping Other Animal Groups   Saving Lions.  Our Wildcat Walkabout may have just seemed like one heck of a party, but thanks to everyone who came and fundraised for the event, we were able to net $6,066.63 and we wanted to spend it on ways to help lions outside our gates.   $3,000 was donated to Nat Geo's Build a Boma Project and $3,066.63 was donated to Lion Guardians to protect lions in the wild.   One of our Senior Keepers went to help a troubled sanctuary in the U.S. twice as they had no staff and helped implement training programs, such as those taught at ZooCollege.com to insure their ability to train future staff.  She also helped run a sanctuary for big cats in Ethiopia for Born Free, while they were seeking a qualified CEO.   Created 23 Intranet sites, which are sort of a sanctuary-in-a-box site, for other sanctuaries to use.  These came complete with every training video, training manual, chart and idea that we use to run Big Cat Rescue.  We do this for free for sanctuaries that do not breed, buy, sell, trade nor allow contact w/ wild animals.   We donated countless tickets to other animal rescue groups to use in their fundraisers.  We often will host volunteer appreciation parties for them at no cost as well.   We are so pleased to provide assistance to organizations that are saving big cats (and little cats) across the globe!   Then and Now   Visit http://bigcatrescue.org/about/finances/ to get copies of our 990's and Audited Statements.  We pride ourselves in keeping our fundraising and administrative total expenses below 20%. Because our tour revenue exceeds our fundraising and administrative costs, 100% of donations go to Program Expense.   The majority of the increase in Program Expense in 2012-2013 was the cost of lawsuits we filed in furtherance of our mission against what we believe to be one of the most notorious exploiters of tiger cubs.  We won a million dollar judgment against this breeder/exhibitor for violations of our copyright and trademark in 2013.  He filed bankruptcy personally and on behalf of his zoo.   However, by consent agreement his personal debt to us is not to be dismissed in bankruptcy, and the zoo bankruptcy has been dismissed.  So currently we are working through the process of seeking to recover our judgment against whatever assets we can.  Without the generous support of our donors we could not have sustained this successful effort. Thank you!   The Board met 4 times in 2015.   All of our animal care is done by volunteers or by staff who also volunteer time before & after work.   Volunteers:   Big Cat Rescue had 80+ volunteers at the end of 2015 who clocked in 33,262 man-power hours, in addition to 49 intern sessions who clocked 29,400 man-power hours. In total this amounted to 62,662 man-power hours provided roughly the equivalent workforce of 30 more full time staff.  This figure did not include volunteer hours of the President and CEO which is about 5,000 hours more.  Between paid staff, part time staff, contractors and volunteers we averaged the equivalent of 50 full time staff.   We have 92 volunteers; 79 women and 13 men. The youngest 18 years old, the oldest 87 years old.   Between January 1, 2013 and September 1, 2015 Big Cat Rescue provided $783,783.00 in scholarships to provide housing, transportation, utilities, food, training and entertainment to 117 interns arriving in Tampa, FL from 15 countries and 27 states.   Staff and Volunteer Training   Several of our staff attended the Safe Capture Course, as we do any time they are in Florida.   Continued turning our volunteer training classes into video classes.

Stay up to date with the Cynic Roundup, giving you coverage on the stories you might have missed in news last week. In this edition, Host Kira Schaefer interviews Cynic Culture Editor Sophia Venturo on the culture article entitled “Rising Rent Costs put student's health at risk.” Read the stories mentioned in the podcast here: 1. Rising rent costs put students' health at risk: https://vtcynic.com/culture/life/rising-rent-costs-put-students-health-at-risk/ 2. AdvoCats discouraged from discussing controversial topics on tours: https://vtcynic.com/news/advocats-discouraged-from-discussing-controversial-topics-on-tours/ 3. Some Title IX demands go unaddressed: https://vtcynic.com/news/some-title-ix-demands-go-unaddressed/ 4. New pay-by-app parking helps commuters: https://vtcynic.com/news/new-pay-by-app-parking-helps-commuters/

Stay up to date with the Cynic Roundup, giving you coverage on the stories you might have missed in news last week. In this edition, Host Kira Schaefer interviews Cynic Culture Editor Sophia Venturo on the culture article entitled “Rising Rent Costs put student's health at risk.” Read the stories mentioned in the podcast here:1. Rising rent costs put students' health at risk: https://vtcynic.com/culture/life/rising-rent-costs-put-students-health-at-risk/2. AdvoCats discouraged from discussing controversial topics on tours: https://vtcynic.com/news/advocats-discouraged-from-discussing-controversial-topics-on-tours/3. Some Title IX demands go unaddressed: https://vtcynic.com/news/some-title-ix-demands-go-unaddressed/4. New pay-by-app parking helps commuters: https://vtcynic.com/news/new-pay-by-app-parking-helps-commuters/

On this week's show Jennifer Berezai of Advocats East Midlands joins Anna to discuss the landmark Heads for Tails campaign, which is about lobbying for change for lets with pets. Aiming to bridge the gap between renters with pets and private landlords operating a no pet's policy, Heads for Tails aims to encourage insurance policies that cover both the landlord and the pet owner. Despite Government's ‘Model Tenancy Agreement' recommending that landlord's are pet friendly, this remains a set of guidelines only. Jennifer aims to offer solutions to enable ‘renters' to enjoy the massive health benefits of pet ownership that has been displayed through the pandemic. Ending the sad fact that 55% of Britain's population cannot own a pet simply down to Landlords' imposed no pet clauses. For more information visit AdvoCATSmids or follow them on @AdvocatsEMFor more about Anna go to annawebb.co.ukMusic and production by Mike Hanson for Pod People ProductionsCover art by JaijoCover photo by Rhain Ap Gruffydd at Gruff PawtraitsTo advertise on or sponsor A Dog's Life email: info@theloniouspunkproductions.com

2013 Annual Report   With your help we are winning in the battle for compassion! Up until 2003 the number of requests for rescues we had to turn down due to lack of space or funds had roughly doubled each year, to 312 that year. We feared it would double again to over 500 in 2004. Instead, it has steadily declined since then thanks to the passage of a federal bill and several state bills that restrict the ownership of exotic cats. This year there were “only” 37 big cats who came to our attention as being abandoned. We were able to take in 9 wildcats plus 2 rehab bobcats. We offered to take 10 of the cats who were leopard size or smaller if their owners would contract to never own another exotic cat.  The cats we did not take were those whose owners refused.   There is no point to our taking in cats just so an owner can go buy another cute cub and later discard it.   We did not have enough Senior Keeper staff to take on more lions or tigers than the ones we have.   Animal Care:  Rescued 9 exotic cats, including Nala the Serval, Skipper & Gilligan the Canada Lynx, Ginger the Serval, Mary Ann, Thurston & Lovey the Bobcats, JoJo the Caracal Serval hybrid and Reise the Cougar.   Rehabbed and released 4 native bobcat kittens;  Gator, Copter, Khaleesi and Fencer.   Newborn kittens who are brought to Animal Control are routinely killed because with their immature immune systems they do not survive in the shelter environment.  So we began a foster kitten program with our interns as the fosters.  We have saved more than 70 kittens from being killed.  We raise them until they are 2 pounds and healthy, then bring them to the Humane Society of Tampa Bay to be fixed and adopted out.  See some very cute kitten video here:http://youtu.be/4yMMudueBow and see cute cats meeting the vet here:http://youtu.be/lfXyynkYmfc Bought 9 more acres for quarantine and native wildlife rehab.   Installed a new solar systemhttp://youtu.be/leiZPwsd1sA By the end of this year, 92 of our 111 exotic animals are over the age of 12; 76 of those are over the age of 15; and 19 of those are over the age of 20. This is well beyond how long they are designed to live in the wild and much older than most zoo cats. This is a testament to the excellent animal care we provide, but we are dealing with many more age related illnesses and are losing more of our big cat friends every year.   2013 was a big year for expanding our big cat enclosures.  We built our largest ever enclosure and dubbed it the Vacation Rotation Enclosure.  This 2.5 acre cat-a-tat includes a pond, fountain, trees, forts and three safety areas for storms.  We had to construct a number of above ground tunnels to move cats to and from nearby enclosures so they could “rotate” through the new enclosure, and we had to make significant improvements to those nearby cages. Two of them being were torn down and rebuilt from scratch so that all of our tigers, no matter how frisky, could be cycled through the Vacation Rotation area safely.   Sadly we had to say “goodbye” to these great cats:  Willow the Siberian Lynx who was 18, Ty the Serval who was 20, SARMOTI the Tiger who was 20, Rose the Caracal who was 16, Shaniqua the Jungle Cat who was 19 and Bella the Tiger who was 17.   We never gave up on Precious the Bobcat after her strokehttp://youtu.be/ZY3IQuKAWwM Award Winning Sanctuary     • Top Rated Non Profit at Great Non Profits • We have received this award every year since they started awarding it in 2010 due to the many great reviews we get from visitors and donors each year. • We again received Charity Navigator's highest four star rating. • Dalton Agency Contest • We won a cash prize and pro bono professional video in this national online voting contest thanks to our dedicated supporters who voted daily. • WEDU Nonprofit of the Year awards • We are a finalist in the Best Use of Video category for this annual contest held by our PBS Station thanks again to our passionate supporters voting online.  The winner will be announced in late February.   Education:  Added audio story telling to the bio of every cat at the sanctuary and created a free virtual tour app in both iTunes and the Google Play Store.  This app is being integrated into our guided tours to insure that every tour is accurate and relevant.   Also new this year was the use of the Vox tour system, where guests can listen via a headset to the guide or recorded tour.  The benefit to the guest is that everyone can hear and can adjust their own volume.  The benefit to the cats is that when using the recorded tour the guests move silently through the sanctuary.   We were presenters at the Big Cat Workshop hosted by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries and the International Fund for Animal Welfare where more than 20 big cat sanctuaries converged for a weekend of learning, networking and sharing.  http://bigcatrescue.org/2013workshop/   We were presenters at Animal Grant Makers in Austin, TX in November on the topic of sanctuaries that fail, and how not to.   BigCatRescue.org gets about 1.5 million unique visitors per year with 1,498,422 in 2013. Our website is primarily an educational tool and according to Alexa we are ranked 224,835 worldwide and 66,562 most visited website in the U.S. in 2013 which was a doubling of our site's popularity over 2012. We have 866 other sites linking to us.   Some of the pages that were the most popular each showed increases of 1,500% – 3,500% and these were: • #4 Why it's wrong to buy big cats had 119,418 visitors • #7 Why it's wrong to breed white tigers had 97,833 visitors • #8 Why it's wrong to breed ligers had 81,303 visitors • #11 Why it's wrong to breed domestic cat hybrids had 57,164 visitors • #12 Why it's wrong to breed Savannah Cat hybrids had 56,346 visitors (which should probably be combined with #11)   Our web site addresses local and global concerns about environment and has over 9,400 pages of information, movie clips, sounds, safe interactive online games with a conservation theme and photos. In any given week the visitors will be from more than 200 countries outside of the U.S. The information provided has helped wildlife rehabilitators identify animals and obtain proper care instruction and helped officials in smuggling cases to identify rare species of exotic cats being illegally traded.  Those are just a few of the ways that we know the site has had an impact this year.   We gave 195 field trip tours to the sanctuary and outreach visits this year.   We gave 8 free tours and 12 discounted school field trip tours this year to groups for whom the modest price of the visit was not manageable. Even when we offer the tours for free, many schools cannot come because they cannot afford the $200.00 fee for their buses, so we maintain a fund where contributors can support big cat education by donating the bus fee.   Legislation/Education:  The steady increase in legislation banning private ownership represents recognition by our society that private ownership leads to widespread abuse.  Social values evolve.  It took decades to ban slavery in England and for women to win the right to vote in America.  Those ideas started out as “radical” and were held by a small minority.  Gradually more and more people understood and agreed until they became a part of our value system that we take for granted today.  The same trend is happening with private ownership of exotics.  Gradually more and more people are realizing that this simply leads to widespread abuse of these animals.  The best evidence of this is the accelerating trend in state laws.   Just since 2005 nine more states have passed some level of ban.   Internationally, El Salvador, Slovenia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Peru, Sweden, Austria, Costa Rica, India, Finland, Bolivia, Greece, China, the UK and Singapore have all banned or restricted the utilization of big cats in circuses.  It is time for the U.S. & South Africa to do the same!   Orchestrated our first Fly In to DC for 17 AdvoCats to talk to nearly 20 Legislators about supporting the Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act HR1998/S1381:  images here:  http://bigcatrescue.org/dc-fly-2013/  International Fund for Animal Welfare revealed that 75 percent of polled voters across the country support the bill's passage.   The Library of Congress offers this guide to global laws regarding the private possession of exotic cats.  Late in the year after the bills were introduced we resumed inviting our on site guests to call their Senators and Representatives asking them to support the Big Cats and Public Safety Act this year.   Through our CatLaws.com site, powered by Voter Voice, 8,324 of our 88,877 supporters sent 143,918 messages to 1071 recipients.  While we wish that more than 10% of animal lovers on our mailing list would take the time to speak up for the animals, the ones who did were awesome.  The 3 most popular letters sent were these:   1. Letters in favor of the Big Cats and Public Safety Act, which would ban the private possession of big cats and ban cub handling. 2. Letters opposing the exhibition of exotic cats and their cubs at fairs. 3. Letters opposing a football player posting that he owned a tiger.   Some of the wins from these campaigns were:   1. 86 Senators and Representatives joined the 3 bill sponsors by co sponsoring the Big Cats and Public Safety Act (HR1998 & S1381) 2. Darnell Dockett turns out to not actually possess a tiger despite his claim that he was going to bring it to practice. 3. Hillsborough County, FL enacted an ordinance that allows them to seize assets in animal abuse cases and enacted another ordinance to protect feral cats and their caregivers.   Imagine what we could have accomplished if just 20% of our mailing list were to take action for the animals?  This is an easy, no cost way for us to have a huge impact collectively.  If you have not yet been active in taking action when we send alerts asking you to email a legislator, regulator or venue hosting an abusive animal exhibit, please make 2014 the year you join in.   You CAN make a difference – the many supporters who do send these emails have proven it!  The most vivid example is our having gotten owners of over 200 malls to agree not to allow cub petting exhibits, saving all those cubs from a miserable life on the road and being sleep deprived as they are handled or restrained for photo opportunities hour after hour.   You can make ending big cat abuse part of the legacy of your life with just a few emails each year.   Wins for the Big Cats in 2013:  Ft. Wayne, IN:  Bears, wolves, lions, tigers, alligators, and venomous snakes are prohibited within the city limits of Ft. Wayne, Indiana.  Unfortunately 2013 was noted by a Wall Street Journal poll to be the worst congress ever for a number of reasons, but most noticeably for animal lovers not one animal protection bill made it through the process.  This article published in the Vegan Health and Fitness magazine gives some great examples of how parents can guide their children to treat animals by avoiding “traditional” animal attractions that we've come to learn are usually abusive, such as circuses and zoos. www.VHFmag.com   Fundraising and Marketing:  Big Cat Rescue was reported favorably in the news 225 times in 2013.   Some of our national press has included shows on  CNN,  MSNBC, National Geographic, Animal Planet, Discovery and the History Channel in addition to such publications as USA Today, National Geographic and the New York Post and major media coverage in several other countries as well.  Big Cat Rescue has been in the press in 42+ states including AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, GA, FL, HI, IA, ID, IO, IN, IL, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, VA, VT, WA, WI & WV and dozens of programs of national or international coverage or in countries other than the U.S.   YouTube and Revision 3 were the big news this year.  Revision 3, which is owned by Discovery, contacted us and asked us to be their first animal themed channel in 2012.  Thanks to this partnership and cross promotions with Animal Planet, we are experiencing more than 1.5 million views of our YouTube videos per MONTH!  By 2013 year end we had 405 videos with 130,011 subscribers and 71,633,898 views.   YouTube Mini Clip Site:  DailyBigCat was launched Nov. 20, 2010 to provide a channel for the mini clips we upload directly from our iPhones.  By year end this site had 4,574 subscribers and 748,688 views.  Facebook:  We surpassed 109,444 fans on Face Book  Google +:  This is a new social site for us in 2013 and we have already reached 30,000 fans on this new venue.   Big Cat Rescue has an Endowment Fund to provide a secure future for the cats. The Fund resides at the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay.  Periodically the Community Foundation offers a matching program where the nonprofit sets a fundraising goal and when 75% of the goal is reached, the Community Foundation provides the remaining 25%, which effectively is a 33% match of the funds provided by donors.  We set our most ambitious goal ever, $400,000, which is the maximum allowed.  We had three years to reach the $300,000 that represents our 75% target, but thanks to our generous donors reached the goal in 9 months and received the $100,000 grant from the Community Foundation in 2013.  We continued to build our affinity credit card program with Capitol One under which you can choose one of our beautiful cats for your credit card image and 1% of all of your purchases is donated to Big Cat Rescue at no cost to you.   To build awareness of our federal bill we signed up to be the top level Diamond Sponsor for the Taking Action for Animals Conference in Washington, DC in June, 2014 where more than 1,000 animal activists converge to learn more about legislation to protect animals.   Selected by Body Shop for their Dragon Fruit Lip Butter campaign which resulted in representatives from popular beauty magazines visiting the sanctuary and writing about our work to stop big cat abuse.http://youtu.be/j3kD84iFPms Started the Cat Chat Show, a weekly podcast where we interview cat experts from around the world about all kinds of cats, from Tabbies to Tigers.   The Halloween “Haunted Trail” event was a lot of fun and a financial success!  See some of it here:http://youtu.be/BseKW0QzbAU Saving Wild Places for Wild Cats   In 2013 Big Cat Rescue donated $3,883.91 towards four conservation programs in the FL and in other countries on behalf of our volunteers.   1. $1533.91 to Panthera to save corridors for wild cats to travel safely 2. $1000.00 to the Florida Panther Refuge to help protect the Florida Panther. 3. $850.00 to the Snow Leopard Trust to cover the cost of camera traps and snow leopard monitoring. 4. $500.00 to the Tiger Trust to protect tigers in India by providing better legal assistance and training for game wardens.   Helping Others:     1. Big Cat Rescue was recruited to offer our expertise and guidance in the development of a rescue center in Spain that will be broadening their focus from primates to now include big cats.  AAP Primadomus is located on more than 400 acres in Villena and currently houses a variety of primates that have been rescued from private ownership, circuses, and laboratories. They are now expanding their focus to also rescue countless lions and tigers that are in need across their country.  In an effort to prepare for this project nearly a dozen experts were invited to a symposium that focused on sharing information regarding the proper care of big cats in captivity, emergency protocol development, and enclosure design. Big Cat Rescue President Jamie Veronica and volunteer veterinarian Justin Boorstein travelled to Spain and joined experts from Italy, South Africa, France, Austria, the Netherlands and all across the United Kingdom.   Over the course of three days the team worked tirelessly to provide as much information as possible to the members of not only AAP Primadomus, but its origin center Stitching AAP. Stitching AAP is a rescue center for apes, monkeys and small exotic animals in the Netherlands that was founded more than 35 years ago.  The symposium was a huge success. Big Cat Rescue will continue to work with AAP remotely throughout the development process. We are so pleased to provide assistance to organizations that are saving big cats across the globe! See a digital rendition they did from the plans submitted:   2. Created 8 Intranet sites, which are sort of a sanctuary-in-a-box site, for other sanctuaries to use.  These came complete with every training video, training manual, chart and idea that we use to run Big Cat Rescue.  We do this for free for sanctuaries that do not breed, buy, sell, trade nor allow contact w/ wild animals. 3. Loaned one of our Green Level Keepers (Kathryn Quaas) to Wildcat Sanctuary for 5 weeks of brutal winter weather to help while they were hiring & training new staff. 4. Big Cat Rescue provided our CatLaws.com service to Animal Coalition of Tampa in their efforts to send a powerful message to the Hillsborough County Commissioners on the subject of TNR.  Trap, Neuter and Return.  We similarly supported Be The Way Home effort in Hillsborough County that protects feral cats from being rounded up and killed.  The Board of County Commissioners responded with ordinances to protect feral cats and their caregivers.http://youtu.be/o1ve94nYbP4 5. Presented at Tigers 4 Tigers which is a coalition of all colleges that have tiger mascots who are working to save the tiger.  It was also the last place for the good friend and world famous and much beloved tiger expert Ron Tilson to make a presentation before his untimely death this year.   6. Hosted 2nd annual SkipAHolics reunion tour to thank the many people who help us keep an eye on our cats via the webcams.http://youtu.be/IuKXK4r7PEo 7. We were a sponsor for Animal Coalition of Tampa's Stride for Strays, as we are every year.   Then and Now:  Below are the audited financial statements of Revenue and Expense for the past five years. We pride ourselves in keeping our fundraising and administrative total expenses below 20%. Because our tour revenue exceeds our fundraising and administrative costs, 100% of donations go to Program Expense.   The majority of the increase in Program Expense in 2012-2013 was the cost of lawsuits we filed in furtherance of our mission against what we believe to be one of the most notorious exploiters of tiger cubs.  We won a million dollar judgment against this breeder/exhibitor for violations of our copyright and trademark in 2013.  He filed bankruptcy personally and on behalf of his zoo.   However, by consent agreement his personal debt to us is not to be dismissed in bankruptcy, and the zoo bankruptcy has been dismissed.  So currently we are working through the process of seeking to recover our judgment against whatever assets we can.  Without the generous support of our donors we could not have sustained this successful effort. Thank you!   Officers and Members of the Board of Directors in 2013 and meetings (2/23, 7/9, 9/24 & 12/17): • CEO and Founder  Carole Baskin (not compensated by BCR for her role as Director) • President and Chairman of the Board Jamie Veronica (not compensated by BCR for her role as a Director) • Secretary & Treasurer Howard Baskin (not compensated by BCR for his role as a Director) • VP Director Lisa Shaw (not compensated by BCR) • Director Mary Lou Geis (not compensated by BCR) • Pamela Rodriguez (not compensated by BCR) • Darren Kipnis (not compensated by BCR) • Keith Lawless (not compensated by BCR) • Kim Mahoney (not compensated by BCR) These members met for quarterly board meetings at the sanctuary.  The board met 4 times in 2013.   Paid Staff and Contractors: 1. CEO and Staff Manager:  Carole Baskin 2. President, Editor & Creative Director: Jamie Veronica 3. Operations Manager & Volunteer Coordinator: Gale Ingham 4. Videographer and Social Networking: Chris Poole 5. Director of Donor Appreciation:  Jeff Kremer 6. Gift Shop Manager:  Honey Wayton 7. Project Manager: Chelsea Feeny 8. Education Director:  Willow Hecht 9. Cage Builder and Maintenance:  Vernon Stairs 10. Cage Building Apprentice and Maintenance:  Scott Haller 11. Grounds Keeper, part time: Jarred Smalley 12. Bookkeeper:  Barbara Stairs 13. Assistant Bookkeeper:  Katie Nikic 14. Guest Services, part time:  Valerie Stockton 15. CFO:  Howard Baskin 16. Public Relations:  Susan Bass 17. Web and Social Media: LaWanna Mitchell   All of our animal care is done by volunteers or by staff who also volunteer time before & after work.   Volunteers:  Big Cat Rescue had 89 volunteers at the end of 2013 who clocked in 40,547 man-power hours, in addition to 54 interns who clocked 32,400 man-power hours, plus 4,793 Volunteer Committee member hours. In total this amounted to 77,740 man-power hours provided roughly the equivalent workforce of 37 more full time staff.  Between paid staff, part time staff, contractors and volunteers we averaged the equivalent of 52 full time staff.  Interesting breakdown of volunteers: We have 89 volunteers; 69 women and 20 men. The youngest 18 years old, the oldest 76 years old.  Between January 1, 2011 and September 10, 2013 Big Cat Rescue had 99 interns from 10 countries and 21 states.   Staff and Volunteer Training:  Several of our staff attended the Safe Capture Course, as we do any time they are in Florida.  Began turning our volunteer training classes into video classes.   Get our Financial Reports:  See our IRS 990 and audited financial statement for Big Cat Rescue at http://bigcatrescue.org/finances/   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  

2011 Annual Report   Big Cat Rescue is more than just a place that provides permanent care for big cats.  It is a movement;  a change in the tide of human perceptions and is the combined effort of more than 54,000 supporters.  If you are one of them, you are a Big Cat Rescuer and the following is the great work YOU did!  If you haven't helped yet, you can do so now at the top right of the screen or here:  http://bigcatrescue.org/donate   Big Cat Rescue's Mission Statement:  Big Cat Rescue's dual mission is to provide the best home we can for the cats in our care and educate the public about the plight of these majestic animals, both in captivity and in the wild, to end abuse and avoid extinction.  We are Caring for Cats and Ending the Trade   Advances:  With your help we are winning in the battle for compassion! Up until 2003 the number of requests for rescues we had to turn down due to lack of space or funds had roughly doubled every other year, to 312 that year. We feared it would double again to over 500 in 2004. Instead, it has steadily declined since then thanks to the passage of a federal bill and several state bills that restrict the ownership of exotic cats. This year there were only 15 big cats who came to our attention as being abandoned and we were able to take in 10. We offered to take all of the cats who were cougar size or smaller, if their owners would contract to never own another exotic cat, but the rest refused.  We just do not have enough Senior Keeper staff to take on more lions or tigers than the three we took this year.   Volgistics became our new time tracking service on Jan 1, 2012 and has replaced our use of Freshbooks.  Everyone seems to like the big buttons and easy check in and check out process.   Animal Care:   By the end of this year, 106 of our 119 animals are over the age of 12 and 89 are over the age of 15. This is well beyond how long they are designed to live in the wild and much older than most zoo cats.  This is a testament to the excellent animal care we provide, but we are dealing with many more age related illnesses and are losing more of our big cat friends every year.   Rescues:  With the help of some very special donors we were able to rescue Amanda, Arthur and Andre; 3 tigers who had been rescued in 2003 from NJ and sent to Wild Animal Orphanage in TX, which collapsed in 2010.  Max the baby bobcat came to us after the RI DNR seized him from an illegal owner.  5 servals, Zoul, Zouletta, Zimba, Santino and Doodles, who had been kept in a NY basement for 14 years were rescued.  Another serval named Kricket was also brought in from VA when her owner could no longer keep her.  We were also able to help with the placement of another serval, a bobcat and did a lot of rehab consultation work via phone and email.   One of those bobcats was Rufus who came in to a Rehabber on Dec 5 weighing 4 lbs, with a broken jaw, split canine and comatose.  They figured he had been hit by a car, but at 4 lbs couldn't believe that he survived.  After he woke up from the coma he was pretty loopy, but they figured the impact had done brain damage.  They had to wire the jaw shut, tube feed him and removed the broken canine. He is now about 7 lbs, is eating solids on his own and doing much better but appears to be blind.  He was having bad and frequent seizures, but those have almost subsided.  They have asked if we can give him a forever home if his eyesight does not return and we stand ready to help.  On 12/21/11 we had another perfect USDA inspection.   Education:  Our website, BigCatRescue.org underwent a painful renovation from a static html site to a WordPress CMS site during 2010 and 2011.  All of the page names had to be changed to fit the new system which meant a huge drop in traffic and initially a huge drop in inbound links, although, by the end of the year we had gained more than a thousand more inbound links than we had before, so it is going to prove a worth while move.  The site was completely down in the Spring and Summer, but has been stable since August 2011 now.   Our website is primarily an educational tool and according to Alexa we are ranked 464,891 worldwide and 128,777 most visited website in the U.S.  We have 1,104 other sites linking to us.   Our web site addresses local and global concerns about environment and has over 8,347 pages of information, movie clips, sounds, safe interactive online games with a conservation theme and photos. From 1/1/2011 until 12/31/2011 the site was visited 338,715 times, resulting in 764,943 page views.  In any given week the visitors will be from more than 200 countries outside of the U.S. as you can see from this breakdown:  United States 279,011, Canada 17,495, Poland 7,679, United Kingdom 7,610, Australia 2,848, India 2,123, Germany 1,578, France 984, and the Philippines 858 to name a few.   The information provided has helped wildlife rehabilitators identify animals and obtain proper care instruction, helped officials in smuggling cases to identify rare species of exotic cats being illegally traded and those are just a few of the ways that we know the site has had an impact this year.  For search engine optimization reasons we launched BobcatRehab.com  to make it easier for bobcats in trouble to find us.   We offer about 200 outreach and field trips per year and have committed to offering 12 of them for free each year to lower income schools, but have given 18 such free tours this year and expect that demand will continue to rise with the cost of transportation.  Even when we offer the tours for free, many schools cannot come because they cannot afford the $200.00 fee for their busses.  Our Education Department has been writing grant proposals to raise the money needed for the buses.   Big Cat Rescue has been in the press 326 times, in 42+ states including AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, GA, FL, HI, IA, ID, IO, IN, IL, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, VA, VT, WA, WI & WV and dozens of programs of national or international coverage or in countries other than the U.S.   Award Winning Sanctuary:  PC Magazine Names Big Cat Rescue in Top 12 Favorite Charities 2011.  “Big Cat Rescue, which takes in retired circus lions and tigers, also rescues other big cats from people who tried to keep them as pets, and otherwise offers sanctuary to large cats that are not eligible for release into the wild. It's focused on educating people about the unsuitability of the animals as pets, working toward passing laws against roadside zoos, and shutting down breeding programs like the exotic pet trade. They also take in injured wild cats and rehabilitate them for release. The group has a video cam set up in the sanctuary, and they regularly post videos of the big cats. The cats eat a massive amount every day, naturally, so Big Cat Rescue relies on donations and paid tour groups to support them.”—Arielle Rochette  PC Magazine   • 2011 Winner in Toyota's 100 Cars for Good  Big Cat Rescue was given a beautiful Toyota Tundra for being the top voted charity during their competition week. • 9/2/2011  The Tampa Bay Business Journal awarded Big Cat Rescue in 3 categories:  Best Black Tie Event  Favorite Retreat and Team Building Venue and Second Best Fundraiser • The Tampabay Business Journal selected Big Cat Rescue as a semi-finalist for Non Profit of the Year for 2011.   Legislation/Education:  The steady increase in legislation banning private ownership represents recognition by our society that private ownership leads to massive abuse.  Social values evolve.  It took decades to ban slavery in England and for women to win the right to vote in America.  Those ideas started out as “radical” and were held by a small minority.  Gradually more and more people understood and agreed until they became a part of our value system that we take for granted today.  The same trend is happening with private ownership of exotics.  Gradually more and more people are realizing that this simply leads to widespread abuse of these animals.  The best evidence of this is the accelerating trend in state laws.   Just since 2005 eight more states have passed some level of ban. Sweden, Austria, Costa Rica, India, Finland, Bolivia, Greece, China, the UK and Singapore have all banned or restricted the utilization of big cats in circuses-it's time for the U.S. & South Africa to do the same!   14,539 new subscribers joined as an AdvoCat to speak out for the cats at CatLaws.com in 2011 bringing our total number of AdvoCats to  54,447 who sent 134,431 letters to lawmakers and decision makers to protect big cats.   Animal Abusers Exposed, Shut Down and / or Fined:  Big Cat Rescue enabled several under cover operations to gather evidence of exotic cats being abused, bred without regard for where they may end up, violations of the Animal Welfare Act that pertains to the cruel treatment of big cats and endangering the public.  This information was presented to the authorities along with affidavits and supporting evidence that we hope will bring an end to much of the suffering in the facilities we selected as being the worst abusers.   • Inside Edition exposed Joe Schreibvogel of GW Park and the fact that at least 23 tiger cubs died at his facility. • The BBC's Show called America's Most Dangerous Pets with  Louis Theroux suggested their show should have been named, America's Most Dangerous Pet Owners. • Animal Planet's Fatal Attractions interviewed Carole Baskin in Tigers Unleashed about dangerous exotic animal owners including Savage Kingdom's Robert Baudy and Lost Creek where Haley Hilderbrand was killed by a tiger while posing with the cat for her high school yearbook photo. Many of the worst breeders, dealers and tiger-tamer-wanabees were finally shut down between 2008 and 2010 but it appears that USDA did not pursue any of the exotic animal abuse cases in 2011.     Fundraising and Marketing:  We overhauled (OK, Jamie overhauled) our online stores at http://www.bigcatrescue.biz/ and on eBay and greatly increased our sales by doing so.  We currently operate 300+ social networking sites.   Big Cat Rescue was reported favorably in the news 326 times in 2011 which in a 19% increase over 2010.   Some of the national press included shows on  CNN,  MSNBC, National Geographic, Animal Planet, Discovery and the History Channel in addition to such publications as USA Today, National Geographic and the New York Post and major media coverage in several other countries as well.   Google awarded Big Cat Rescue a grant of $40,000 per month in free AdWords. People who love animals love to share their photos and stories.  In 2008 Big Cat Rescue unleashed a Chat Big Cats community.   Members can post their own blogs, or join in our forums and contests. It is a YouTube/ MySpace styled community made up entirely of animal lovers. By year end there were 2,847 members and 34,359,740,539  videos, songs, photos and blogs posted to the site.  (blows my mind too!)  Get in on the action free at http://www.chatbigcats.com   Best Viral Video Award:  YouTube.  We ended the year with 35,442 subscribers and 37,492,151 views.   By year end we had 323 videos posted on YouTube and other popular sites like google, Blip, MetaCafe, Revver and others.  http://www.youtube.com/bigcatrescue   YouTube Mini Clip Site:  DailyBigCat was launched Nov. 20, 2010 to provide a channel for the mini clips we upload directly from our iPhones.  By year end this site had 2,563 subscribers and 166,724 views.   Our MySpace account now has 7,551 friends. myspace.com/1BigCatRescue We surpassed 54,000 fans on Face Book .  We also enhanced our presence on Care2.org and many other such sites.  We now have 500+ contacts in our LinkedIn presence here:  linkedin.com/in/BigCatRescue Big Cat Rescue now has an Endowment Fund to provide a secure future for the cats. The Fund resides at the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay.  We initiated a program with Capitol One so that you can choose one of our beautiful cats for your credit card image and 1% of all of your purchases will be donated to Big Cat Rescue at no cost to you.   Saving Wild Places for Wild Cats:  Big Cat Rescue funded a $5,000 GPS tracking collar program that will be monitored by researchers with the Snow Leopard Trust. Founded in 1981, the Snow Leopard Trust is the world's leading authority on the study and protection of the endangered snow leopards. This collar will allow researchers to track a wild snow leopard in order to study its habits and territory needs.  A GPS tracking collar has been placed on one of the cubs of Khashaa, a female and mother snow leopard, within the study area. The cub, a male, is already pretty big at one and a half years old. We find this so exciting because it will help us begin to answer some of the unanswered questions about snow leopards, including information about dispersal patterns.   Big Cat Rescue has been working with WildTracks this year to provide images of our tigers' paw prints for entry into their computer program which can determine who a cat is by their tracks when there are enough tracks submitted to use for comparison.  Learn more and see photos of the print collection at http://bigcatrescue.org/2011/today-at-big-cat-rescue-sept-22   Big Cat Rescue offered to sponsor the first ever Florida Panther Festival if they agreed not to use any live cats at their exhibits.  They did not take us up on the offer to sponsor the event, but did assure us that they would not exploit cats this way.  Our camera traps have been set in various locations to monitor wildlife populations and poachers in the area.   Helping Others: After delivering a couple of free webinars for the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS), Patty asked if we would host their first in person 2 day Workshop. Howard Baskin presented on our fundraising streams and the history of Big Cat Rescue, Jeff Kremer presented on donor recognition while giving the group of 20+ attendees a tour, Chris Poole spoke on social marketing and networking, Patty Ragan shared the value of hiring a coach, Kari Bagnall illustrated how to get the most out of a tabling event, Patty Finch taught grant writing, teaching your board how to be helpful and how to avoid “founder's syndrome” and I shared how we use google Apps, how we manage over 100 top notch volunteers, why it is important to have a plan and stick to it.   Big Cat Rescue later hosted HSUS Sanctuary CEO's for their annual retreat and gave them an inside look at how we operate.  In both the GFAS and HSUS workshops we shared our Intranet site along with all of our training documents and all of the assets to create a “sanctuary in a box.”  All of these tools are included on our website behind a $1.00 pay wall so that anyone who wishes to improve their facility has access to everything we do.   Big Cat Rescue also helped the Humane Society Legislative Fund in their work to end puppy mills because the same laws would protect cats and kittens from use in kitten mills as well.   Big Cat Rescue provided our CatLaws.com service to Animal Coalition of Tampa in their efforts to send a powerful message to the Hillsborough County Commissioners on two subjects.  1. Was to fund the voucher program for spaying and neutering dogs and cats for low income owners.  2. Was to ban the cruel practice of chaining dogs.   As with every year we supplied Free Passes, Certificates for Feeding Tours and Keeper Tours, and Two For One Passes to many other animal causes to use in their fundraising efforts.  We donate primarily to those organizations that are providing services to cats of all sizes.  We do donate to some human related fundraisers as well, but animal causes make up 3% of all charities and yet compete for less than 1% of all donated dollars.   Officers and Members of the Board of Directors in 2011 and meetings: CEO and Founder  Carole Baskin (not compensated by BCR) President and Chairman of the Board Jamie Veronica (not compensated by BCR for her role as a Director) Secretary & Treasurer Howard Baskin (not compensated by BCR for his role as a Director) VP Director Lisa Shaw (not compensated by BCR) Director Mary Lou Geis (not compensated by BCR) Pamela Rodriguez (not compensated by BCR), Darren Kipnis (not compensated by BCR), Vincent Pavese (not compensated by BCR), and Keith Lawless (not compensated by BCR).  These members met for quarterly board meetings at the sanctuary.  The board met 5 times in 2011.   Paid Staff:  Operations Manager & Volunteer Coordinator Gale Ingham Staff Manager, Editor & Creative Director Jamie Veronica Gift Shop & Guest Services  Honey Wayton Intern Recruiter & Data Management Chelsea Feeny Education Director Dr. Beth Kamhi and her assistant Willow Hecht Vernon Stairs Cage Builder and Maintenance Scott Haller Cage Building Apprentice and Maintenance Videographer and Social Networking Chris Poole Director of Donor Appreciation  Jeff Kremer Assistant to Operations Manager and Staff Relief Person Jennifer Flatt, CFO Howard Baskin, PR Susan Bass and  LaWanna Mitchell is an independent contractor who works remotely on web issues. All of our animal care is done by volunteers or by staff who also volunteer time before & after work.   Volunteers:  Big Cat Rescue had 96 volunteers at the end of 2011 who clocked in 37,556.09 man-power hours in addition to staff, 25 interns (12,700 hours) and Volunteer Committee member hours. Our interns came from 9 states and 6 countries. Volunteers and interns provided roughly the equivalent workforce of 24 more full time staff.   Staff and Volunteer Training:  We want to say a special thank you to all of our staff & volunteers who have just completed their 10th year of service to the cats.   I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.

2004 Annual Report     Advances:  The biggest advance in our history was this year when we went from “Tampabay'sBest Kept Secret” to a Household Name in the local area. This was due largely to the great media exposure donated by six local Cox Radio Stations. Hillsborough County gave us big green directional signs in 5 locations to direct visitors to our door. For the first year ever, in our 12 year history, we were able to cover all of the sanctuaries expenses from its own income! Thank you everyone! Howard Baskin was able to find a reasonable CPA, Marsha Weiss, and an accountant who completed an audit for our finances for grant writing purposes. This enabled us to apply to the Combined Federal Campaign and to apply to the online version of The Better Business Bureau called Give.org. Christy Anderson launched our first E-zine that carries AdvoCat issues to 5000 subscribers and links to our electronic version of The Big Cat Times. Jamie finished a movie that was nearly five years in the making called “The Big Cat Picture“. This has been widely distributed and 2 minute clips on every species of wild cat has now been added to our website from the movie. We wrote a 20 year plan and began taking steps to reach our goal of eliminating the cause of so much suffering and abuse.   Animal Care:  We took in five new tigers and a lion, but had to turn away 114 big cats. We submitted our anesthesia machine parts to have one usable unit rebuilt.  We built 5 new Cat-A-Tats with pools and dens and another multi-acre enclosure with dens and a pool.  Built new dens for Esmerelda, Tobi, and Little Feather and cage enhancements for Sultan, Canyon, Genie, Maharajah, Bailey, Scratch, Baby Cakes and Hercules. Shere Khan and China Doll got a hurricane shelter and we repaired cages that were badly damaged from the four hurricanes in six weeks. The Enrichment team is growing stronger and more professional in their collaboration with others, such as Disney, to help write a comprehensive Enrichment Guide. Operant Conditioning has been led by Jennifer Ruszczyk with marvelous results.   The cats are learning their cues and are much easier to handle for check ups. All of the volunteers have retaken their animal care classes this year and have re certified their credentials via testing. Dr. Liz Wynn, DVM has been donating time every week as a liaison to Dr. Stacie Wadsworth, DVM. We began using Truly Nolan for regular flea spraying and for rodent control with marvelous results.   Staff and Volunteer Training:  Attended the USDA's Big Cat Symposium.  Jamie Veronica attended AZA's weeklong college course, Managing for Success. Jen, Howard and Carole attended and presented Operant Conditioning and Cage Building at The Association of Sanctuaries' annual conference in Stone Mountain, GA. Susan Mitchell attended Karen Pryor's Clicker Expo and spent some time with Gary Priest from the San Diego Zoo and quite a bit of time with his top trainer of cats.  Susan also completed the Safe Capture course that some of our staff attended last year. Our volunteer program was overhauled to create an administrative branch for the first time in our history. We now have red through green level requirements on both the Keeper side and the Partner (admin) side and the proud recipients of those levels of accomplishment.   We began our first Intern program with three interns. Cathy Mayeski has been screening applicants from around the world and by the year's end we have had 3 successful graduates from the program and two of them moved here to stay in the volunteer program. By the year's end we have 6 full time interns and by next year hope to have 12-15. They have come from Wales, Canada, Brazil, Spain, Peru and all across the U.S. The interns work all day, six days a week for three months in exchange for housing and the experience of a lifetime. They are a volunteer force unto themselves and now have their own Den Mother, Gale Ingham who keeps them busy and makes sure they get the most out of their time at Big Cat Rescue.   Education:  Hired Kathryn Quaas as our new Education Director and started offering regularly scheduled kid's tours every Saturday at 9 AM. Summer Camp 2004 was a big hit. We created, with the help of creator LaWanna Jones, and a grant from Ken and Terri Pereira, an interactive CD called The Truth About White Tigers and distributed 1000 free copies. With the help of PeTA we were able to distribute 1000 copies of their CD about veganism.   Produced a new screen saver called 12 Tigers that has tiger photos and facts. Created an online game with the help of Point 2 Nature that children will be able to access online for free. It is a memory game of matching the cats with their fur and their sounds for fun fact rewards.   Created hundreds of pages of online games, puzzles, calendars, free screen savers, quizzes, polls and colouring activities for children of all ages. These interactive games are part of our campaign to reach the schools and day care centers with activities to teach children about animals and to inspire awe and respect for their beauty and their rightful place in nature. Our Big Cat Expedition continues to be our most pervasive educational tool and Susan Mitchell has trained countless people in the Operant Conditioning program portion that we offer to illustrate the medical needs of the cats and how we meet them. Our tours continue to increase and this allows Denny Mitchell, Brian Czarnik, Bill Lewis and many other great tour guides to educate people about the plight of these animals in the wild and in captivity. The most frequent response that we still hear from guests is “I had no idea!”.   Legislation:  We reviewed the Captive Wild Animal Coalition‘s proposed sanctuary standards and wrote and submitted the sub section specific to felid care based upon a compilation of our own standards, those of ACE and Florida's Fish and Game.  We assisted Animal Control's approach to the State of Florida in an effort to require owners of dangerous exotic animals to post on their property the dangers that exist and to allow the public to easily determine if their neighbors are harboring dangerous animals.  We began promoting a page on our site called Support Legislation and AdvoCats.   We partnered with Capitol Advantage to create the first and only online presence in the Animal Welfare industry that is promoted on MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Congress.gov, PBS, the LA Times and E-the-People. In just the first days of creation is already responsible for about 30 letters per day going out to legislators on important animal issues that are currently pending including: Stopping canned hunts, prohibiting steel jawed traps and asking USDA to quit issuing licenses to people who are circumventing the new 2004 law that prevents the sale of big cats as pets. We noted a drop in the number of big cats being abandoned. Every year the number of big cats in need of shelter was doubling and by 2003 we were turning away 312 exotic cats. After the passage of the Captive Wild Animal Safety Act in Dec. 2003 that prohibited the sale across state lines of big cats as pets that number dropped to 114 abandoned cats in 2004. We posted a composite of all state laws and enabled viewers to go directly to their state's online regulations. Our founder became a major donor to the only Political Action Committee fund for Animal Welfare issues called HumaneUSA.   Fundraising and Marketing:  We purchased a new Point of Sale system with cash register and inventory software.  Implementing this software has enabled us to better track inventory, sales and trends. On May 19 our web site received 29,724 page requests to be our largest day ever. By the end of the year our site is currently averaging about 100,000 hits per day. Jamie and Howard attended Scott Moller's Fundraising Seminar in Tampa and Howard, Carole and Jen attended Scott Moller's Fundraising Seminar in Stone Mountain, GA. Scott Lope and Daniel Capiro have been working closely with players of the TampaBay Lightning to raise awareness. Thanks largely to the lion vs tiger ligers thousands of dollars in radio air time donated by six Cox Radio stations, our Fur Ball attracted 850 guests and we netted 50,000.00 as well as had a Roaring Good Time. Jamie created our first Holiday Card with a collage of the cats for our use and for sale in the gift shop. The Adoption Kits have been so successful that she has had to order them by the hundreds from a printer, rather than printing them one page at a time on her computer as she has done in the past.   Our online giftshop sales soared from $7,914.00 in 2003 to $32,351.00 in 2004. We began monitoring news alerts at Google for exotic cat issues and proactively writing in to the media. We were in the press 63 times compared to 35 times in 2003. Our newsletter The Big Cat Times (formerly Cat Tales) is now in color and goes out quarterly to 23,000 supporters.   Grounds Improvement:  At our January zoning hearing, 96 people wrote letters of support and 47 attended the hearing and spoke in support of the fine work we are doing on a global level. At the second hearing more than 200 supporters came to stand before the Board of county Commissioners in favour of Big Cat Rescue's planned development. In the past we had to haul 30 bags of trash, twice a week to the end of the road. This year we managed to get our very own dumpster on site. We moved the golf cart shed, tore down the old green barn and re-routed the fencing to increase parking area. We repainted the cabins, food prep, painted the E-Center and repainted several of the cages. We installed new signs on the buildings so that they are consistently called by name in our documentation and training manuals and to avoid confusion. Sentry Signs enabled us to put new signs on most of the cats along the tour path that states their name, species, date of birth and how they were rescued.   We began a fence improvement campaign called the Catter-Wall. Two marble lions were donated for our front gate and we may have someone willing to donate a new front entrance next year. Food Prep was tiled and had gutters installed all the way around. Kiss Cote was applied to the Leopard Cat-A-Tat as a rust preventative trial model in March. The roads were reinforced to prevent inaccessibility to certain areas in the rainy season. We started the process for adding a 4 bedroom, 3 bath dormatory for interns. We upgraded to broadband and now have a wireless Internet connection available for guests.   Helping Others:  We covered ad costs for The Association of Sanctuaries annual conference in March to insure that the people who need the training will know it is available.  We also paid expenses for three of the speakers on Cage Building, Operant Conditioning and the No More Homeless Pets approach to companion animal abandonment.  We shared the secret to our high search engine placement with TAOS and CWAPC and members of both organizations. We joined the Sanctuary Workers And Volunteers Association SWAVA and provided material for them to launch their campaign. We send out news alerts to everyone in our new Yahoo group and in the TAOS Yahoo group and include a Tip of the Day feature in which we share ideas that have worked for us. We gave permission to Florida's state government site, at their request, to use our photos to illustrate why we should protect the Florida Panther.   Charities that we donated to this year:  100 passes to No More Homeless Pets Adopt-a-thon and gift certificate for a Big Cat Expedition, 50 passes and gift certificate for a Big Cat Expedition to Florida Voices for Animals, 50 passes to Clearwater High school's Project Graduation, 100 passes to Dress For Success, 300 passes to The National Humane Societies spay/neuter and adoption programs.  Big Cat Expedition to Clearwater Chamber of Commerce's annual fundraiser. Donated a Big Cat Expedition and several Two for One Passes to Animal Coalition of Tampa for their Spay Day fundraiser. Big Cat Expedition for two and 200 passes to the Tampa Museum of Art. 1000 passes and a 1500. Expedition Package was donated to the Global Understanding's Carousel Ball. There were many, many more that we donated to this year that we did not keep stats on.  We offered to let No More Homeless Pets – HC and Florida Voices for Animals utilize our legislative program in a manner that is branded for their constituents.   Other:  Carole Baskin represented The Association of Sanctuaries at the Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition's conference in San Francisco and was made The Association of Sanctuaries liaison to The Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition.  She served as the interim President of the Association of Sanctuaries in 2004.    2004 was a grrreat year and we are looking forward to an even better 2005!!!   The narrow mission of Big Cat Rescue is to provide the best permanent home we can for the limited number of abused, abandoned and retired big cats that the sanctuary can afford to take in. However, the sanctuary must turn away over 100 cats per year and the number is growing.   The broader mission, therefore, is to reduce the number of cats that suffer the fate of abandonment and abuse by educating as many people as possible about the conditions that lead to the plight of these animals. We do this through our tours of the sanctuary, our school education programs, our 2100 page website that receives viewers from all over the world, by supporting species preservation efforts, and by providing a hands-on experience for interns from around the world.   We hope, by setting an example and teaching about how animals should be treated, that this will carry over into how we humans treat each other as well, and in doing so make the world a better place for all living creatures.   Our Officers and Board of Directors • CEO Chair of BOD and Founder  Carole Baskin • President Jamie Veronica • Vice President & BOD Cathy Mayeski • Secty/ Treasurer  Vernon C. Stairs • Director and Operations Manager  Scott Lope • Director and Coordinator Brian Czarnik The current board of directors will serve until December 31, 2005. Between now and then, staggered terms of four years and five years each will be set by the existing Board of Directors to insure the uninterrupted good work of Big Cat Rescue.   The financial audits for 2004 are posted here and include total income in the past fiscal year, expenses in the same program, fund raising and administrative categories as in the financial statements, and ending net assets.   Income   Gifts and Contributions cash:   232,597. Program Service Revenue:    314,143. Inventory Sold:  48,076. Rental Income:   31,718. Interest & mortgages     85,041. Events income:   39,631. Total income for the year   751,206.   Expenses   Animal Care:    363,798. Employee Benefits:         74. Payroll Taxes:     4,650. Accounting Fees:       3,525. Legal Fees:        17. Supplies:    39,322. Telephone:   14,232. Postage & Shipping:    4,911. Equipment Maintenance:     9,970. Printing & Publications:     50,583. Travel:    1,476. Conferences:       3,443. Depreciation:    18,116. Total Expense for the year  574,906   Excess for 2004    $  176,300 Net Assets at the beginning of 2004       $ 1,142,039 Net Assets at the ending of 2004            $ 1,318,339   While this accounting appears to show a gain, it does not take into consideration money spent on capital improvements and set aside for more capital expenditures.  Our complete 990 is available online at Guidestar.org under Big Cat Rescue. Neither the Founder nor any of her family nor friends are paid by Big Cat Rescue.   I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  

José Luis Galán i Jaime Montero han portat el cas a Estrasburg i han denunciat que la imparcialitat de la jutgessa del cas, que està casada amb un coronel de la Guàrdia Civil.

In this fascinating webinar, Philip Urofsky, Sir David Green, and Stéphane Bonifassi talked about the effects of the Covid pandemic and how it has changed the face of international cooperation. 

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Dim-Dium 9-15h Bar Casanovas. Carrer Jaume Casanovas, 103, El Prat de Llobregat Bar El Club (Can Pelaio). Passeig de l’Escultor Miquel Blay, 42, Olot. 9-15h. Bar l’Estadi d’Atletisme. Carretera de l’Estadi, s/n, Sant Boi de Llobregat Bar La Formiga, Plaça Ajuntament 10. Esparreguera Bar Les Fonts. Plaça de les Fonts, Olesa de Montserrat Bar Maimir. Enginyer Algarra, 49, Pals. 8-20h. Bar Restaurant El Vitrall. Av. Sant Narcís, 100, Girona. Dill-Diu 7-23h Bar Restaurant Grau, Cerdanyola del Vallès Bar Restaurante EL LORO, Argentona Bar Sport. Avinguda Catalunya 64, La Fuliola. Dill. a div., 7.30 a 22h. Bar-Restaurant La Concòrdia. Carrer Torrent Roig 7-8, Cabrils. Tots els dies, 7.30-23h. Bar-Restaurant Sant Jaume. Riera de Sant Pere 147, Premià de Dalt. 7-24h. Bar. Carrer de la Pau 19, Almacelles. 11-16h i 18.30-24h Bufet Jordi Domingo. Rambla Catalunya 36 Pr, Barcelona Cafè Bar Carajillo. C/ Verge del Carme, 5, Llançà. De 10:30h a 15:30h i de 17:30h a 01:00h Cafè Fumanya – Ca la Pili. Carrer Major, 21, Prats de Lluçanès. 08-00h, Dimarts tancat. Càmping Gran Sol, Crta. N-260 Km.230, La Seu CAMPS ESQUEU SA. Rambla Joaquim Ruyra 40, entresol, Blanes Can Pairot. Pairot del Baix s/n, Santa Cecília de Voltregà. Dimarts i divendres, 14 a 17h Can Valls, Cornellà del Terri Cerveseria Stay Malats, Barcelona. De 19h a 00h Cinescan Studio. Carrer Pare Lainez 56, local 2, Barcelona. Dill-Dij 9:30-18, Div 9:30-15h. Construcciones Manel, Av. Generalitat, 2, Pallejà Coworking Vilanova. Plaça Enric Cristòfol Ricard 7-11, Vilanova i la Geltrú Craft Barcelona. Carrer del Paradís, 4. Barcelona D.O. Restaurant, Barcelona David’s cafe bar, Carretera de Bellver 1. Alp. Girona. De 8’00 a 23’00 Delicat Pastisseria. Carrer Delicies 10, Sant Pere del Pescador. Dill-diss, 9-13h. El Cafetò de Cerdanyola. Carrer Pío Baroja n2, Local 2, Cerdanyola del Vallès El Mirador, Clemensstrasse, 83, München El Poke Corner Bar, Avinguda de Rhode 193. 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Polígon Industrial Campllong, Carrer Mestral 19, Balaguer. Tots els dies 24h. Hostal Esteba. Carrer Francesc Macià, 2, Caldes de Malavella. 8-23h. Hôtel du Mail. 8 rue des Ursules, Angers. 7-22:30h Hotel Els Caçadors. Carrer del Balandrau 24, Ribes de Freser. 10-22h. Hotel Spa La Terrassa. Avda Castell d ‘Aro 2, Platja d’Aro Il Picarolo, Carrer de la Indústria, 54, Sant Sadurní d’Anoia Immoatic. Passeig Cristòfol Colom 27, Local 3, Granollers Immobiliaria Can Kiku. Carrer de la Vila 62, Taradell. Dill-div., 10 a 14h i 16 a 20h. INMOIB. Carrer de Pere Dezcallar i Net, 11 Local 9, Palma. Dill. a Div- 9-14H Itaca. C/Osona, 26, Tona. Dim-Div 8 a 22h. Diss-Diu 12 a 22h Kaipi Marketing. Carrer d’Ixart, nº1, Entresòl 1 Despatx 1., Tarragona. 9-15h. La locanda di nonna flo, Sant Feliu de Guíxols La Vinícola, Barcelona Llibreria Etcètera. Carrer Llull, 203, Barcelona. 10-18h. Local Carrer Manresa 14, Vic. Dill. a div., 9 a 19h. Local. Carrer Escultors Rubió 7, Moià. Dill. a div., 9-19h. Local. Carrer Miramarges 7 planta 5, Vic. Dill. a div., 9 a 19h. Materials de la construcció Victor. Avinguda Onze Septembre 206, Bellcaire d’Urgell. Miranda. 39 bd Paul Doumer, Le Cannet MRW. Carrer Joan Maragall 21, Andorra La Vella. Dill.- Div., 9 a 13h i 15 a 19h Neteja i Perfumeria Neus, Plaça de Cuba 12, Mataró New Artcan. Calle Jaume I, N11 local 3, Montcada i Rexach. 10-14h i 16:30-20:30 Neware. Edifici 1 SC Trade. Av. Corts Catalanes, 5, Planta 0. Sant Cugat del Vallès. Dilluns a Divendres de 9 a 18h. Cap de setmana tancat OBO Arquitectura, Carrer La Mina, 15, Loc. 4, Sant Cugat del Vallès Ocellaires Vic S.I. Placa Fra Joan, 2. Vic. 8-22h. Oficina Cor Blaugrana. Passeig de Gràcia, 87, 6a planta. Dilluns a Divendres, 9-14h i 16-18h. Oficina Sí al Futur. Av. Diagonal 399, 4.art 1.a, Barcelona. Dll-div 10-14h i 16-19h. Orenes. Avenida de la Institución Libre de la Enseñanza, 43. Madrid. 10-22h. Padel Osona, Sant Roc 19. Gurb. De 08:00 a 20:00 Pàrquing 4 Cantons, Muralla de Sant Francesc, 5-15, Manresa Pastisseria Boages. Gran Via de Carles III, 30 36, Barcelona. Dill. a div., 9-20h. Penya Barcelonista de Constantí. Carrer Major 18, Constantí. 18:30 a 20:30h Penya Barcelonista de Manlleu, St Jaume 19, Manlleu. Barcelona. Dll 07/09 i Dmc 09/09 de 18 a 20h Penya Barcelonista de Mataró. Carrer d’Argentona, 14, 1er pis, Mataró Penya Barcelonista del Perelló, El Perelló Penya Barcelonista Vilanova i la Geltrú. Rambla de Josep Antoni Vidal, 8. Vilanova i la Geltrú. 9-23h Penya Blaugrana London. Bar&Co, Temple Pier, Victoria Embankment Penya Blaugrana Osos Rusos. Smolnaya 49, office 258. Moscow. 8-00h Everyday Penya Blaugrana Santiago de Xile. Bar De La Ostia, Orrego Luco, 65. Santiago. 12-20h. Penya Vic, Restaurant. Plaça Major 3, Vic. Dill. a div., 13- 16h i 20-23:30h Pingüins. Plaça Vella 4, Torelló Pizzeria Dosmildotze. Plaça de la Coma, 15, Cassà de la Selva. Dim. a diss., 7-13h i 18-23h i Dium. 8-13h i 18-23h. Prat Descans. Carretera d’Osor, 37, Anglès Punt de recollida. Carrer Academia 23, baixos, Mollerussa. Dill. a div., 8.30-19.30h. Punt de recollida. Carrer Salmeron 8, El Perelló. Punt recollida. Av. del Castell 14, Torelló. Dill.-diss. 9-14h i 17-20.30h Punto de recollida. Carrer del Mig, 7, Constantí. RBC Assessors. Rambla de Joan Bordàs 33, Sant Feliu de Guíxols Restaurant Cafeteria L’Escut. Av. de les Voltes 11, La Bisbal d’Empordà. Tots els dies, 9-24h. Restaurant don Martín. Rambla Sant Sebastià, 69, Santa Coloma de Gramanet Senyor Enciam Llinars. Frederic Marès, 46 baixos. Llinars del Vallès. Seu Central, Balmes, 66. Barcelona. 10-21h. Singer Bar Restaurant. Carrer de Mosén Jacint Verdaguer, 142. Premià de Mar. Dim-Dij 9-24h, Div-Diss 9-15h, Diu 10-23 Supermercat. Carrer Quintana 34, María de la Salut. Dill.-Diss. 8.30 a 13.30h i 17 a 20.30h Tallers Lambert. Avinguda Prat de la Riba, 23, Bigues i Riells Tossa Rent. Carrer Lope Mateo, 1, Local 1. 10-13h i 17-19h. Tsunami Blaugrana. Travesera de Collblanc, 2, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. 16-20h. TT Advocats Girona. Avinguda Sant Francesc 30, 1-1ª, Girona. 9-13:30 i 16-18. Úbeda & Martínez Abogados. C/ Entença 34, entlo 9A, Barcelona Vins Noe, Avinguda de la Torre Blanca 3. Sant Cugat del Vallès. De dilluns a dissabte de 09 a 19h Vivapen d.o.o. Gaji 41, Celje, Slovenia

Fermí Arias, advocat d'Arias Advocats

Separacions i divorsis - Fermí Arias, advocats

A "Desinforme setmanal", Adri

Apel·les Carod-Rovira, advocat, llicenciat en dret per la Universitat de Barcelona, fundador de la Comissió de Normalització Lingüística del Consell de l'Advocacia Catalana. Xavier Castellvell. Va ser degà Col·legi d’Advocats de Sant Feliu de Llobregat. Meritxell Estiarte. Llicenciada en dret per la Universitat de Barcelona Diputada de l’Il·lustre col·legi de l’advocacia de Lleida.

Ser Autónomo o ser empresario es un reto para valientes en este país. El trabajador autonomo es el trabajador más maltratado por la Seguridad Social y por las leyes en general. Por ser empresario o por ser autonomo tienes que cumplir a raja tabla todas tus obligaciones con la seguridad social para poder tener acceso a las prestaciones que cualquier trabajador no autonomo tiene y a las que accede fácilmente, sin necesidad de demostrar nada. El autonomo tendrá que demostrar que cumple con todos y cada uno de los requisitos para que se le reconozcan sus derechos, como si los autónomos fueran una especie sospechosa de ser defraudadora por el simple hecho de ser trabajador autónomo. Un saludo a todos. Más información en http://ruaixvanaarle.com o llamando al teléfono 93 444 84 94 Abogados Barcelona - Advocats Barcelona Abogados Barcelona - Advocats Barcelona Abogados Lleida - Advocats Lleida Abogados Girona - Advocats Girona Abogados Tarragona - Advocats Tarragona Abogados Internet - Advocats Internet Abogados Online - Advocats Online Abogados Youtube - Advocats Youtube *** SUSCRÍBETE *** Si tienes dudas legales o quieres entender desde un punto de vista jurídico noticias temas de actualidad. Un lenguaje accesible para entender principios y normas del Derecho mercantil, Derecho Civil, Derecho Penal, Derecho laboral, etc. *** HAZ TUS CONSULTAS Y SUGERENCIAS *** Deja un comentario si tienes cualquier duda sobre este vídeo o si quieres hacer una sugerencia para próximos vídeos. *** SÍGUE A RUAIX EN REDES SOCIALES *** https://twitter.com/JSRuaix https://www.facebook.com/josep.serraruaix https://www.instagram.com/ruaix.vanaarleabogados/ https://twitter.com/ruaixvanaarle https://plus.google.com/100654059317501122875 HASHTAGS: #autonomo #serempresario #serautonomo #abogado #advocat #abogadobarcelona #abogados #advocats

Consultori legal - Fermí Arias, resp. d'Arias Advocats

¿ Que hacer cuando te acosan a llamadas comerciales y llamadas cobradores de morosos ? Lista Robinson | Acoso Spam Telefonico | Lista de Morosos | Cobradores | LOPD | Abogados | Advocats Todos sufrimos hoy en día constantes llamadas comerciales, tantas que sufrimos acoso telefonico. Una forma de spam, spam telefonico contra el que no sabemos como reaccionar, ya sea de nuestros propios bancos que ofrecen credito o productos financieros, de aquella vez que compramos algo y nos llaman con ofertas telefonicas, y lo peor, cuando se trata de un cobrador de morosos por una deuda o un crédito que ni recordamos, o que no queremos pagar porque nos enfadamos con la compañía telefonica, o porque estamos pasando simplemente un mal momento. Explicamos que hacer contra las llamadas telefonicas reiteradas, contra el acoso telefonico que sufrimos, y contra el que pocas veces sabemos reaccionar. Actualmente la Ley de Protección de Datos Personales LOPD, y el Reglamento General de Protección de Datos Personales RGPD, nos ayuda y proporciona herramientas para evitar el acoso spam telefonico, ya sea comercial o por causa de una lista de morosos. Lo primero que es recomendable es apuntarse a la Lista Robinson, que es prácticamente la única forma de desautorizar llamadas de forma genérica, al menos las llamadas comerciales de todas las empresas. Puedes apuntarte gratuitamente en este link: https://www.listarobinson.es Una vez hecho esto, tendrás un argumento de peso para decir a cualquier llamada que estás en la Lista Robinson y que si vuelven a llamarte sin haber actualizado su Lista Robinson les denunciarás a la Agencia de Protección de Datos. Alternativamente puedes convertirte en molesto y ejercitar los derechos que la LOPD y la RGPD te otorgan, de acceso, supresión, cancelación etc. Y finalmente también puedes poner una denuncia por acoso spam telefonico ante la Agencia Española de Protección de Datos AEPD. *** RUAIX REWARD *** En estos links tienes el acceso a documentos preparados para el ejercicio de tus derechos en materia de protección de datos personales LOPD: Derecho de Acceso: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AFVe20cvX4yIUEqhkuBn-kDh6z8l_OW5 Derecho de Rectificación: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1H_vKLlmjgXcIEUijwgF6f0zzxl17PrzG Derecho de Oposición: https://drive.google.com/open?id=12YKwv_gBJjpoXLrCBDjj40L4Wnw_voO_ Derecho de Supresión - Olvido: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sENm-hnQ_H3h9Js9hhjmrY-qIwg4xIcE Derecho de Portabilidad: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Onv_oy6bEix-VQOqDZ7F8p3CsnqsfzMU Derecho de Limitación: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DvzYUMMscxduDyIut5rtMNVcZ5THnhpO Derecho de Oposición a Tratamiento Automatizado: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AFVe20cvX4yIUEqhkuBn-kDh6z8l_OW5 En este link tienes un formulario para la presentación de denuncias ante la Agencia Española de protección de datos AEPD: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mNB-Yw7HV5Mo3DY-3HRFh5CHJHNkLUBP Más información en http://ruaixvanaarle.com o llamando al teléfono 93 444 84 94 Abogados Barcelona - Advocats Barcelona Abogados Barcelona - Advocats Barcelona Abogados Lleida - Advocats Lleida Abogados Girona - Advocats Girona Abogados Tarragona - Advocats Tarragona Abogados Internet - Advocats Internet Abogados Online - Advocats Online Abogados Youtube - Advocats Youtube *** SUSCRÍBETE *** Si tienes dudas legales o quieres entender desde un punto de vista jurídico noticias temas de actualidad. Un lenguaje accesible para entender principios y normas del Derecho mercantil, Derecho Civil, Derecho Penal, Derecho laboral, etc. *** HAZ TUS CONSULTAS Y SUGERENCIAS *** Deja un comentario si tienes cualquier duda sobre este vídeo o si quieres hacer una sugerencia para próximos vídeos. *** SÍGUE A RUAIX EN REDES SOCIALES *** https://twitter.com/JSRuaix https://www.facebook.com/josep.serraruaix https://www.instagram.com/ruaix.vanaarleabogados/ https://twitter.com/ruaixvanaarle https://plus.google.com/100654059317501122875

En el programa d'aquesta setmana abordem la temàtica de justicia i advocats! Comentem les pel·lícules que més ens han marcat (12 hombres son piedad, Fracture...), les sèries de més pes i el principal exponent en el camp dels videojocs: la saga Phoenix Wright de Capcom.

Programa del dimecres 6 de febrer. Arrenca el programa d’avui parlant de teatre. Ens acompanya la directora Lina Mira, del grup de teatre del Col·legi d’Advocats de Balears, ja que aquest cap de setmana presentaran l’obra ‘El florido pensil’ a l’Auditòrium de Palma. També parlem amb Esther Pons, presidenta de l’Orquestra de Cambra Illa de Menorca, que aquest diumenge celebran a Ferreries el seu 20 aniversari. I finalitzam amb David Ventura i la secció ‘Música per passatgers freqüents’, avui amb les composicions de Luis Gómez-Escolar.

En un moment en què els assumptes judicials tenen un especial interés en els mitjans informatius, on antics alts càrrecs de l'administració acaben en la banqueta dels acusats amb certa assiduïtat, volem saber quins reptes afronta el periodisme davant la mediatització judicial. Ho fem de la mà dels periodistes Laura Ballester, de Levante-EMV, i de Sergi Pitarch, d'eldiario.es.

Vint-i-quatre hores al dia, 365 dies a l'any. Estan sempre ací, a vegades poc reconeguts per la societat. Parlem dels advocats i les advocades d'ofici, una mena de metges de guàrdia de la justícia. Qui conforma aquest cos? Com funciona?

Llibres, música, obres de teatre, i com no, pel·lícules han tractat la temàtica de la justícia i el paper entre els "roïns" i els seus advocats.

Parlem amb els advocats i advocades penalistes, particulars i del torn d'ofici, per tractar d'explicar la importància del dret a tindre una defensa amb garanties en una època plagada de judicis paral·lels.

Advocats versus periodistes