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purplecat wrote:
Lol…the “my human is special” one is my fave! 😆 😆 😆
LOL, I love that one. Just the look of resignation on the kitteh’s face. 😆
White tigers are a product of inbreeding. Mother to son, father to daughter, brother to sister. I spent an hour or so reading up on it on the web lastnight…It is a very depressing thing to know how and why white tigers are used in the zoo/circus.
Only 1 of 4 cubs born is white. The other 3 are sold for cold cash, or abandonded. 80% of white tiger cubs are born deformed, beyond showing capability, or they die wihtin 6 months of birth. 😥 White tigers are used in circus acts because they are also mentally slower than your regular orange tiger. They are ALL born cross-eyed. And sometimes lack most all depth perception.
Yes, they are beautiful. I have always thought so, now I kinda feel sorry for them.
But their story is sorta saddening to a cat lover… 🙁
But, hey Caturday isn’t aobut the sniffles…Its about the laughter!! 😀I was going to post that, but you beat me to it. It is very sad, 🙁 but as you say, Caturday is not about being sad!!! 😉
Saddly this is what most are like 😥
http://tippedearclan.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/whitetigerdeformed1.jpgYeah. When I came across that pic, I burst into tears. Didn’t help that it’s that time of month. 🙁 🙄
ruffian wrote:Saddly this is what most are like 😥
http://tippedearclan.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/whitetigerdeformed1.jpgSome food for thought…
It’s no different than people breeding such dogs as pugs. Same smashed-in face, and ugly result. Only reason people empathize with tigers more, is because they are a more charismatic animal.
Necron99 wrote:Star Wars themed lolcats because im a Star wars nerd, you scruffy nerf hearder
😆 😆 😆 The world needs more star wars humor
pegasi1978 wrote:Necron99 wrote:Star Wars themed lolcats because im a Star wars nerd, you scruffy nerf hearder
😆 😆 😆 The world needs more star wars humor
No kidding! 😆
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While hiding somewhere in my head I'm on the lookout for white oriental dragons! Please let me know if you know of any available. Thank you!
Love the Star Wars kitties. I’ll bet I was a Star Wars nerd before you were born Necron 😉 😆
*Strawberry Fyre
*Jade Fyre
*Fyre Garnet
http://dragcave.ath.cx/user/34664*Silver
*White
khat7 wrote:Love the Star Wars kitties. I’ll bet I was a Star Wars nerd before you were born Necron 😉 😆
*Strawberry Fyre
*Jade Fyre*Fyre Garnet
http://dragcave.ath.cx/user/34664*Silver*Whitei have been around for all of them , of course i was just born when the first one came out but i quickly converted into nerd-dom . I remember meeting Darth Vader at the drive for Empire in and he scared me somthing awful
dark_zorse wrote:ruffian wrote:Saddly this is what most are like 😥
http://tippedearclan.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/whitetigerdeformed1.jpgSome food for thought…
It’s no different than people breeding such dogs as pugs. Same smashed-in face, and ugly result. Only reason people empathize with tigers more, is because they are a more charismatic animal.Mos def. Skin problems, hip problems, breathing problems, etc etc. Same thing. Different animal.
dark_zorse wrote:ruffian wrote:Saddly this is what most are like 😥
http://tippedearclan.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/whitetigerdeformed1.jpgSome food for thought…
It’s no different than people breeding such dogs as pugs. Same smashed-in face, and ugly result. Only reason people empathize with tigers more, is because they are a more charismatic animal.
Actually it is quite a bit different, very very few pug pups, or bulldog pups are born with facial deformities like those tigers, and it is not due to in breeding, it is due to genetics, you take 2 un related pugs and breed them the pups still look like pugs, there are no unrelated white tigers. It is the same as breeding albino Doberman Pinschers though, they are all bred down from 1 dog, a male, who was repeatedly bred back to his mother, then to his daughters to get more.That being said, as much as I love bulldogs I have issues with breeding them, they do have the highest infant mortality rate of any PB dog, they have high numbers of water babies and spina bifida. I much prefer people who breed them naturally and have free whelpers though. This is why I like the movement taken on by some to create the “Olde English Bulldogge”, and American Bulldogs of course.
skigod377 wrote:dark_zorse wrote:ruffian wrote:Saddly this is what most are like 😥
http://tippedearclan.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/whitetigerdeformed1.jpgSome food for thought…
It’s no different than people breeding such dogs as pugs. Same smashed-in face, and ugly result. Only reason people empathize with tigers more, is because they are a more charismatic animal.Mos def. Skin problems, hip problems, breathing problems, etc etc. Same thing. Different animal.
The other difference is that with tigers, there’s none of that nonsense about “the breed is SUPPOSED to look that way!” Folks know what tigers are supposed to look like, and it isn’t like that. To me, the pugs and bulldogs and their ilk are just as sad and upsetting as that poor tiger. 🙁
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