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Carole Baskins Markets Coronavirus Masks With Leopard Print Of Course

May 18, 2020 / 4:13 PM EDT / CBS Detroit

CITRUS PARK, Fla. (AP) — Are you a cool cat or kitten? There's now a coronavirus mask out there for you.

The Tampa Bay Times reports that Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin, prominently featured in Netflix's "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness," started selling face masks with her oft-quoted catchphrase Saturday.

KEENESBURG, CO - APRIL 05: A pair of the 39 tigers rescued in 2017 from Joe Exotic's G.W. Exotic Animal Park relax at the Wild Animal Sanctuary on April 5, 2020 in Keenesburg, Colorado. Exotic, star of the wildly successful Netflix docu-series Tiger King, is currently in prison for a murder-for-hire plot and surrendered some of his animals to the Wild Animal Sanctuary. The Sanctuary cares for some 550 animals on two expansive reserves in Colorado. (Photo by Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)

The dual-layered tie masks feature the words "Hey all you cool cats and kittens" above a whiskered feline smile. Viewers of the popular docu-series know that's Baskin's catchphrase.

Masks cost $11 each and come in black or leopard print. The masks are being sold to raise money to help big cats. Portions of the proceeds also support first responders.

Big Cat Rescue is closed to the public due to the coronavirus outbreak. A post on bigcatrescue.com said the animal rescue is losing $160,000 a month in tour revenue.

Bill Wyatt, owner of the Y Que Trading Post in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, displays self made face masks in his shop during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic on April 23, 2020. - Wyatt has transformed his topical tee shirt business to a topical face mask business now called Y Que Mask and PPE Trading Post, since the start of the coronavirus crisis. According to Wyatt, the mask featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci is a best seller, as are masks with characters from the Netflix hit "Tiger King" and also popular internet memes. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Big Cat Rescue and its founder have been the subject of much attention since being featured in "Tiger King."

The streaming series stars gun-toting Oklahoma zookeeper Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison after killing five tigers and plotting to have Baskin murdered.

A rescued baby Asian leopard cat is seen at a natural resources conservation agency (BKSDA) in Banda Aceh on November 5, 2019. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP) (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Baskin was upset with how the show portrayed the captive tiger trade. "Tiger King" spent much of its time focusing on the feud between Baskin and Maldonado-Passage, which included accusations by him that Baskin was behind the disappearance of her ex-husband, Don Lewis. Baskin has denied that.

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