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Howard Baskin

Howard Baskin

Howard Baskin (age 80 years old) is the secretary, treasurer, and the advisory board chairman at Big Cat Rescue.

Early life

Howard Baskin was born and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is a former management consultant who spent 11 years at Citicorp and was an equity participant and general manager at three companies. He lives in Tampa, Florida, with his wife Carole. He and Carole take care of the cats at the Rescue. The duo is actively working towards ending big cat abuse, as they find ways to get the Big Cat Safety Act passed.

Education

He went to school at Poughkeepsie High School. Baskin studied in Union College, New York, from where he graduated in 1972. He then studied in University of Miami School of Law and eventually received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1980.

Career

Howard Baskin is currently a retired management consultant who has a history of working with finance, and strategic planning. Howard worked at Citicorp in about 11 years, where he was the Director of Strategic Planning for the Commercial Real-Estate Division. He later left the corporation in 1991 and worked for three other companies, one of which he co-founded.

Relationship

He met Carole for the first time in 2002, during the launch party of “No More Homeless Pets”.

The two soon began to date, and eventually got married in 2004.

Howard started helping Carole reinvent wildlife on Easy Street into Big Cat Rescue, a sanctuary founded on Carole’s vision. Carole also went on to say that after meeting Howard she began to realize her vision. From records, the two made a great team. Howard managed the administrative, financial and legal aspects, while Carole focused on advocacy, and raising funds through social media. In one of her interviews, she revealed that “it was on their honeymoon that the two wrote a 25-year plan to stop the abuse of big cats in the country”.

In an interview mentioned on Big Cat Rescue website, Harold stated:

“I kind of married into this transition, although it was, of course, my choice, not a requirement…I fell in love with her.

One thing that drew me to her was her passion for the mission and the excitement of working for a cause, not just living.”

The ultimate goal

The immediate goal for the Baskins was to stop the breeding of big cats.

For this reason, they actively started working towards preventing cub-petting and cub-selling.

This soon leads them to cross paths with Joe Exotic.

Trivia

Howard Baskin always smiles at strangers as his way of generating a little more love in the universe. He inspired this design called "I Smile Back" as a way for people wearing the tee to inspire those who see it smile. Cindy illustrated that idea with our "smiling" Natalia the Amur Leopard. The proceeds go to funding the freedom fight for exotic cats.[1][2][3][4][5]

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