The Tigers Alive “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shaw shank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
The tiger is one of the most Iconic symbol of the wild that we fear and admired at the same time. In our imagination they rule the jungles but today many tigers have never even seeing the wild, many of them spend their life in captivity. When I was growing …show more content…
The only way to produce a tiger 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. (Big cat rescue) 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.”(Big Cat Rescue) 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 therefore they serve no conservation purpose. This white cats are all made by the crosses between Bengal tigers and Siberian tigers. Scientist have divided tigers into 9 subspecies. 3 of them have gone all extinct, The Bali tigers on the 1940’s, The Caspian tiger in the 1970’s, and The Javan tigers on the 1980’s, surviving are The Siberian tigers, The Bengal, The Indochinese, The Malayan, and the Sumatran tiger; they are all in danger, and the last, South China tigers can only be found in …show more content…
In most of them the tigers are fat and seem really inoffensive, they are feed by their owners and do not have much space to run nor a place to swim. These scenarios are very different from their normal habitat and in my opinion make the tigers lose their real identity. It has been studied and proved that tigers suffer a big change in their behavior if raised on a back yard or in a house. Especially those tigers who are bought just within weeks of being born because they do not get any kind of experience on the wild therefore become dependent from their owners. Once in a house they become something else from tigers, they are just simple pets who lost their character and ferocity from their appearances, they lose their purpose in life. For tigers being in a human made environment also has others consequence apart from the ones mentioned already such as diseases and running the risk of escaping their houses and being killed or attacked outside by a human being. For those who own a tiger it is really hard to find a veterinary, there are not very many with experience and fewer still who will want deal with the liability of having their staff exposed to your big cat, not to mention their regular clientele. The other issue is having them in a secure place where you know they will not escape. There have been situations in where a tiger has escape from their houses and have ran into the
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shaw shank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
The tiger is one of the most Iconic symbol of the wild that we fear and admired at the same time. In our imagination they rule the jungles but today many tigers have never even seeing the wild, many of them spend their life in captivity. When I was growing …show more content…
The only way to produce a tiger 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. (Big cat rescue) 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.”(Big Cat Rescue) 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 therefore they serve no conservation purpose. This white cats are all made by the crosses between Bengal tigers and Siberian tigers. Scientist have divided tigers into 9 subspecies. 3 of them have gone all extinct, The Bali tigers on the 1940’s, The Caspian tiger in the 1970’s, and The Javan tigers on the 1980’s, surviving are The Siberian tigers, The Bengal, The Indochinese, The Malayan, and the Sumatran tiger; they are all in danger, and the last, South China tigers can only be found in …show more content…
In most of them the tigers are fat and seem really inoffensive, they are feed by their owners and do not have much space to run nor a place to swim. These scenarios are very different from their normal habitat and in my opinion make the tigers lose their real identity. It has been studied and proved that tigers suffer a big change in their behavior if raised on a back yard or in a house. Especially those tigers who are bought just within weeks of being born because they do not get any kind of experience on the wild therefore become dependent from their owners. Once in a house they become something else from tigers, they are just simple pets who lost their character and ferocity from their appearances, they lose their purpose in life. For tigers being in a human made environment also has others consequence apart from the ones mentioned already such as diseases and running the risk of escaping their houses and being killed or attacked outside by a human being. For those who own a tiger it is really hard to find a veterinary, there are not very many with experience and fewer still who will want deal with the liability of having their staff exposed to your big cat, not to mention their regular clientele. The other issue is having them in a secure place where you know they will not escape. There have been situations in where a tiger has escape from their houses and have ran into the