26 June 2012
All credit goes to Big Cat Rescue, where this information is from. I feel I am doing them a favor getting out this information, as the public have been deceived. _____________
The ONLY way to produce a tiger or lion with a white coat is through inbreeding brother to sister or father to daughter; generation after generation after generation. The kind of severe inbreeding that is required to produce the mutation of a white coat also causes a number of other defects in these big cats.
The same gene that causes the white coat causes the optic nerve to be wired to the wrong side of the brain, thus all white tigers are cross eyed, even if their eyes look normal. They also often suffer from club feet, cleft palates, spinal deformities and defective organs.
The white coat is a double recessive gene so most of the cubs born through this inbreeding have normal coloring but they too suffer the same defects and are referred to in the trade as “throw away tigers.” As such, they are often killed at birth because only the white tigers are the big money makers. And because none of these cats are purebred (they are all crosses between Bengal tigers and Siberian tigers), they serve no conservation purpose.
You can end the misery by just Saying NO to any place that breeds or exploits white tigers.
__________________ None of this writing is mine. I'd love to hear your opinion on this. It would also be great if you could repost this to get the message out. Thank you
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