White Tigers are a beautiful animal to behold. Unfortunately, not many people know the harsh truth about these tigers.
White Tigers are the result of inbreeding, and quite a bit of it. As one would expect, inbreeding causes many issues in the tigers besides having their beautiful white coat. Many have club feet and crossed eyes, even if they seem completely normal. Some other issues they could potentially have are defective organs and spinal deformaties.
Why then, are they still bred? The unfortunate truth is that they make money. People love to see White Tigers because they are generally accepted as being better looking and beautiful.
Awesome as they may be, they are almost inhumane to breed.
"All White Tigers Are Inbred and Are Not Purebred." Big Cat Rescue. Big Cat Rescue, n.d. Web. 15 June 2017. <https://bigcatrescue.org/abuse-issues/issues/white-tigers/>.
This is interesting, I didn't know that they were the products of inbreeding. Now it seems inhumane to me and should be stopped. How much money do the people who breed them make from a white tiger? Is any other way a white tiger can be born without inbreeding, for example a genetic malfunction such as albinism?
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