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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-10 09:56 PM
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Helpful dog feeds white tiger cubs in zoo.
A feel-good story for mid week. Dog feeds tiger cubs in China zoo.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/13/AR2010071305986.html
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-10 09:59 PM
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1. Photo


Iz in yur zooos, feedin yur kittehs.

Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Travis Coates Donating Member (489 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-10 10:07 PM
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2. Give it 5 months and she'll "feed" them a different way NT
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-10 10:08 PM
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3. sorry, but I doubt anyone working at a zoo in China has the best interests of those animals foremost
...in their minds.

Look at that chain at the top right of the photo.

sorry to be Debbie Downer, it was my first thought.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-10 10:18 PM
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6. "white tigers" is a cruel racket to propagate a congenital defect

...which is genetically linked to a host of physical and mental deformities

That's why the mother couldn't nurse them in the first place
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-10 10:18 PM
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7. It would appear that the best interests of the dog are not foremost in their minds...
The chain is VERY off-putting..and now makes me wonder what happened to her puppies.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-10 10:08 PM
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4. Awesome - cause dogs are like that. Nt
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-10 10:16 PM
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5. A word about "white tigers"
Edited on Wed Jul-14-10 10:20 PM by jberryhill
The article repeats the usual "white tigers are rare" thing, as if "white tigers" were some particularly important subspecies.

"White tigers" are selectively inbred mutant tigers with bad eyesight and a host of other deficiencies. They are bred for their novelty value, but the high incidence of birth defects results in a fair number that are thrown away.

Their "inexperienced mother" couldn't feed them because it is congenitally impaired, having been specifically bred to exhibit a congenital defect.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-10 10:19 PM
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8. Man screwing with Mother Nature..yet again..
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-10 10:24 PM
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9. This is an example of a throwaway "white tiger"

Typically, Chinese zoos will kill these ones:
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-10 10:42 PM
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10. This is horrifying They create life and then destroy it with no compunction.
Edited on Wed Jul-14-10 10:48 PM by BrklynLiberal
http://tehelkafoundation.blogspot.com/2007/03/white-tiger.html

The White Tiger Fraud
http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/white_tigers.htm
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