Cross-Breeding to Create A White Bengal Tiger Is Animal Cruelty: Read More!
- by: Sue Lee
- recipient: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Services Department
Please sign and share this petition worldwide as we plea with the U. S Fish and Wildlife Services Department to put a nationwide or even worldwide ban on crossbreeding tigers to create the White Bengal Tiger. This is not natural for the animals and creates many health issues for these hybrid tigers. Ask the government: please do not crossbreed tigers to create the unnatural species known as the white Bengal tiger!
No doubt, the white Bengal tiger is a beautiful creature but most do not realize is that crossbreeding created these gorgeous animals. Many years ago, a Mr. Conway of the New York Zoological Society had the notion that the rare cat was merely a victim of hereditary defects but he soon realized this is not true, stating that " White tigers are freaks.” This is not natural, although some believe it is just a genetic variant of the wild Bengal population.
White Bengal tigers are not albino but a sub-species of Bengal tigers. Experts state that White tigers occur after breeding two Bengal tigers with a recessive gene that controls coat color. It has been said the entire captive white tiger population originated from one single white tiger and has been inbred ever since. In order to retain this recessive gene zoos and breeders must continually breed father to daughter and father to granddaughter and so on. This inbreeding has caused many genetic problems with tigers such as cleft palates, scoliosis of the spine, mental impairments and cross eyes. Many of the cubs that are born either in zoos or by breeders have to be ‘disposed’ of because they are malformed at birth.
These facts are deplorable! Breeders and exhibitors try to justify their actions by saying this is an endangered species so they must continue to breed! Wrong! They are not a natural species and often have many deformities, disease and abnormalities!Breeders of white tigers do not contribute to any species survival plan; they are breeding for money. In reality, not only does the breeding of white tigers compound the problem by giving the general public a completely incorrect image of these powerful wild predators, in addition it has caused a giant surplus of regular golden colored tigers in the private sector across the world because most litters still have several orange tigers. Out of a litter of cubs, the breeders will pick the white cubs that bring in a lot more money on the market and euthanize, inhumanely destroy or neglect the cubs that do not meet the color requirement. Read more at Crossbreeding of White Bengal Tigers Let's do our part to save these hybrids from sure pain and suffering and enjoy the beautiful Bengal Tiger as it is meant to be.
Please sign and share this petition worldwide as we plea with the U. S Fish and Wildlife Services Department to put a nationwide or even worldwide ban on crossbreeding tigers to create the White Bengal Tiger. This is not natural for the animals and creates many health issues for these hybrid tigers. Ask the government: please do not crossbreed tigers to create the unnatural species known as the white Bengal tiger!
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Services Department - Please implement a stringent ban on creating hybrid White Bengal tigers due to crossbreeding. They are not a natural species and often have many deformities, disease and abnormalities! Additionally, such practices creates an abundance of regular golden colored tigers in the private sector across the world because most litters still have several orange tigers. Out of a litter of cubs, the breeders will pick the white cubs that bring in a lot more money on the market and euthanize, inhumanely destroy or neglect the cubs that do not meet the color requirement. This abuse and cruelty!! Ban any crossbreeding of tigers in order to create an unnatural species of animal!
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