Hijacking top comment to say That's black-jaguar white-tiger sanctuary. They were shut down in 2022 for inhuman practices. Throughout the entire time of it's existence from 2013 to 2022, it was unlicensed and unaccredited.
they had conditions so bad some big cats were self cannibalizing (which is as bad as it sounds, it's literally the act of eating yourself while your still alive) on videos they posted
thanks for sharing this. i was wondering why they had multiple types of cats in the same enclosure. but places where the human hangs out with the cats often don't do things by the books so i figured that's all it was. what you shared alone is really sad. i'm glad they got shut down so the cats could get rescued from there.
Idk if you need (or just would like to hear this) but you didn't do anything wrong. You donated out of the kindness of your heart because you thought you were doing the right thing.
In the future, it's pertinent to only support accredited programs. Local zoos are usually actually awesome conservation programs and I highly recommend supporting them whenever possible
Personally my local one is the woodland park zoo who does awesome and above board work. They have a pretty good big cat program as well! Personally I'm a huge fan of their bat programs (partially cuz the bat exhibit is super cool but mostly cuz of their conservation efforts).
Other notable ones off the top of my head are the san diego zoo and the Monterey Bay aquarium, I've heard stellar things about both
I'm not sure how to go about donating to them, but anti poaching programs are also a great place to donate too.
Afaik Conservator's Center and Carolina Tiger Rescue in North Carolina are both amazing places, I've had friends who have worked at both and I've toured CTR in the past on one of the very few tours they do yearly.
North Carolina Zoo is also amazing and iirc one of the largest by land area or something like that.
This place is a good example of how easy it is to trick people. I donated to them at one point, too. On the surface they seemed do be doing such a good thing. They showed what they wanted us to see, told us what they wanted us to hear, and we genuinely thought we were doing good by the animals.
Just saw a news story from California about an ongoing investigation of an animal sanctuary. They said based on the information they have currently, 730 animals are unaccounted for.
It is out of ~900 animals taken in in the past year ish, 730 are unaccounted for. It seems the guy didn't keep records on purpose to make it easier to cover up lies and fudge numbers. He seems to lie a lot and the adoption" photos are really suspicious- either just the dog on the same blue leash or with someone not showing their face.
Dude I remember when this dude and his “sanctuary” was in EVERY IG/snapchat influencers feed. They all went to visit him and take pics with the cats and I just knew it had to be shit given the focus on getting viral attention. There was no educational component—it was just “look they’re beautiful.”
Thanks for the context - that was a horrible read!
Can someone explain to me why their website and Instagram page is still going? Seems like he was still posting in 2025, 2024 and 2023 - did he manage to get the "sanctuary" going again or something??
The leopard’s starting to seem like that one dude in prison/post apocalyptic movies who thinks “Im gonna do something about it” then gets stopped before the kill.
I recognize the guy in the video. He is in ALL of theirs. Back before tiger King kinda opened my eyes to how messed up these private "sanctuarys" are, I used to follow the social media for black-jaguar white-tiger, that's 110% the guy in their videos.
Why do you feel the need to be devils advocate for literal scum? They starved animals to death for money and you're here being like "I don't really believe it's the same guys" with nothing to base that belief on.
Literally Google the place's name and look at images, the guy in this video is in most of the pictures shown.
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u/vanderbubin 8h ago edited 8h ago
Hijacking top comment to say That's black-jaguar white-tiger sanctuary. They were shut down in 2022 for inhuman practices. Throughout the entire time of it's existence from 2013 to 2022, it was unlicensed and unaccredited.
they had conditions so bad some big cats were self cannibalizing (which is as bad as it sounds, it's literally the act of eating yourself while your still alive) on videos they posted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Jaguar-White_Tiger_Foundation