Carole Baskin

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Carole Baskin (born June 6, 1961 in Bexar County , Texas ; born Carole Stairs Jones ) is an American animal rights activist and owner of Big Cat Rescue , a non-profit animal shelter for big cats in Tampa , Florida . She became known worldwide in 2020 for her portrayal in the Netflix documentary Big Cats and Their Predators about private zoo owner Joe Exotic , with whom she had a long-standing feud.

Life

Carole Stairs Jones was born on June 6, 1961 at Lackland Air Force Base to an Air Force employee and a secretary. At the age of nine she already had an increased interest in saving cats, but did not want to become a veterinarian because she would then have to put cats to sleep. She dropped out of high school at the age of 15 , moved out of home, and kept her head above water with three jobs. At the age of 17 she married for the first time, her then boss and owner of a discounter . The two have a daughter together. During this time she bred domestic cats , especially Persians and Himalayans. She also cared for injured bobcats . The relationship was mainly characterized by distrust on the part of her partner. After a solid argument, she met Don Lewis.

Initially as a secret affair, the two of them left their then partners and married in 1991. Her new husband was a millionaire and together they began to be interested in saving wildcats. Over the years, they acquired more than 100 cats which they exhibited in a kind of private zoo called Wildlife on Easy Street . They mainly took in cats that had been rejected by their owners. While Don Lewis became more interested in cat breeding, Carole wanted to save the animals. They began to argue, which was reflected in a failed contact ban by Don Lewis in 1997. Shortly afterwards Don Lewis disappeared. The circumstances of his disappearance could never be clarified. Jones was the sole heir and now designed Wildlife on Easy Street to her will. In 2002 Lewis was pronounced dead.

In 2002, Carole Jones met Howard Baskin, a management consultant. The two married, Carole took his name. Together with Howard she revised the concept of her zoo and renamed it Big Cat Rescue . From then on, they renounced human-cat interaction, which was previously a large part of the zoo. Instead of breeding big cats or, as before, taking in outcast cats, she switched to fundraising and a strong online presence. In addition, she now actively fought for animal rights and took active action against breeders with her community. She also works with the animal rights organization PETA and operates her own website 911AnimalAbuse.com , where users can report violations of animal rights in so-called roadside zoos. The animal shelter now has a size of 67 hectares (0.67 km²) and can accommodate more than 50 wild animals. It is open to the public.

The shelter had to be closed during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States .

Trials against Joe Exotic

One of their enemy images was inevitably Joe Exotic, the eccentric private zoo owner who drove through Oklahoma with a show where he passed baby tigers around to pet. She took active action against him and both of them rocked themselves up in the conflict. This went so far that Exotic used the name of Big Cat Rescue for its traveling circus. This enabled Baskin to sue him for trademark infringement. She got right and was awarded $ 1 million in royalties that Joe Exotic didn't have. Despite their differences, the two were able to agree on a payment plan until Jeff Lowe took over the zoo.

The attacks by Exotic intensified, he threatened Baskin through his internet channel, claiming that Baskin killed her husband Don Lewis and fed them to their cats. He also recorded the video for Hello Kitty Kitty , in which a Carole Baskin double fed a dismembered man to tigers. A former employee they came to the information that Joe Exotic a contract killer wanted to start on it and asked the FBI for help. Joe Exotic was eventually arrested and sentenced to 22 years in prison for contract killing and violations of keeping exotic animals.

documentation

Alongside Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin was the main character in the documentary series Big Cats and Their Predators . Episode 3 is about the disappearance of her husband. Carole Baskin felt disappointed by the two filmmakers who had promised her a kind of blackfish of the big cat world. The episode gives the impression that she had something to do with the disappearance of her husband, especially since her enemies, in addition to the predator keepers also the family of Don Lewis, were allowed to report widely about alleged entanglements and irregularities, while she hardly had a say. She presented her view of things on her side in a longer post.

Like Joe Exotic, documentation made Baskin an internet phenomenon and the target of numerous memes . While Joe Exotic was mostly portrayed positively in net culture , she received death threats and memes were dedicated to her that portrayed her husband's death as a fact.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1961 06 06. In: YouTube . Carole Baskin, February 26, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Sean Williams: Joe Exotic Built a Wild Kingdom. He Was the Top Predator. In: The Daily Beast . June 22, 2019 ( thedailybeast.com [accessed April 10, 2020]).
  3. ^ A b c d e Robert Moor: The Modern Barnum and His Equally Extraordinary Nemesis. In: New York Magazine. September 3, 2019, accessed April 10, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ a b Gabrielle Bruney: 'Tiger King' Subject Carole Baskin Denies Accusations of Feeding Her Husband to Cats. March 26, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Contact Big Cat Rescue. In: Big Cat Rescue. Retrieved April 10, 2020 (American English).
  6. ↑ Who Is Carole Baskin in 'Tiger King' and Where Is She Now? In: Decider. March 24, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 .
  7. ↑ "Tiger King": Carole Baskin is fed up with Netflix. In: Netzwelt.de . Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
  8. ↑ If Memes Count As Evidence, Carole Baskin Clearly Killed Her Husband (15 Memes). In: Ruin My Week. March 30, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 (American English).
  9. ↑ Patty: Murder, Mayhem and Madness: Carole Baskin Tiger King Memes No-Guilt Life. In: No-Guilt Life. March 27, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Carole Baskin. In: Knowyourmeme.com. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Baskin, Carole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Carole Stairs (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American animal rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bexar County , Texas