All right. Please do not take offense to anything I say here but...
That video was put out by Big Cats Rescue which is a company who "rescues" the larger species of cats. So everything they say is going to be over exaggerated, blown out of proportion, and sometimes flat out lies. Mind you, it is the same way on both sides of the fence. The opposing side will do the same thing. It is hard sometimes to get the pure facts and nothing but the facts.
One of the things they do not tell you in their stories is that the breeding that occurs LEGALLY do not sell off the "defective cubs" to illegal sources. The animals are put in rescue centers and stuff, so their life is not a waste, but the zoo's do not have the space to keep an animal who will be attacked by the others because of the deformities, so when they are bred in zoos, if the mother rejects the cubs, they are hand raised until they are old enough to survive on their own in a center, then they move them there. What they are referring to with the illegal trade of tigers and lions and such is the back yard breeders who inbreed ALL of the animals, not just the tigers for their coloring, and those types of places are illegal for a reason. So yeah, the illegal breeding of these tigers does cause most of them to be put down because they cannot sell one with a deformity. But the zoos? They make sure it has a place to go.
Now, I am not condoning the inbreeding and such, I am just giving you the facts that I know of. Also, if you watch one of their other videos, they say right in it that the first white tiger that they know of was FOUND IN THE WILD, yet in that video it says they cannot survive in the wild and they are ONLY inbred. The one that was in the wild could have been a result of inbreeding, but still, it was alive in the wild and was doing fine before they took it to captivity where they then breeded it to another Bengal Tiger and got Orange Bengal Tigers and then breeded him to his own daughter to produce the white bengal tiger. So yes, they are in the wild, there just are not very many of them, and those that survive obviously know how to handle themselves since they make it to adulthood just fine. Should we exploit this glitch in the breeding world? Of course not! But are they going to stop? No, absolutely not, it brings publicity and media, which in turn brings money, and they love money. Its wrong that they do this, but these creatures do it on their own as well, so I hate it when people start freaking out and saying what horrible beasts all the zoos are and stuff. Not all Zoos do this, and some will mate the tigers but not if they are inbred, which means they ARE trying to put a stop to the inbreeding. Condoning the situation is wrong, but to say that what they do in the wild is wrong...well thats not for you to judge. God has his plans for each creature, if not to only make us aware of the consequences or to show us both sides of the breeding fence, either way, he wouldnt have let the animals mate together and produce inbred babies if he didnt have some kind of plan for their species.
And dont get on me about the religious thing, I am not a religious person, but each species is here for a reason and the only reason I use the word God is for lack of a better word. Its the easiest word to use to explain whatever it is that runs things around here lol.
So, I forgot the rest of what I was going to say (sometimes my train of thought derails), so I will wrap it up at that. If you have any questions you can PM me no problem, I cant promise you I can answer them though, I know only what I have learned and I am not a scientist or a Zoologist. Thanks for listening to my rant.
The point of this was to explain that yes, inbreeding for a specific appearance is wrong, in most cases inbreeding is wrong no matter what, but mankind did not start this, nature did, and yes we are exploiting it and it is wrong, but we are doing what we have always done, take something we have never seen before, study it, try to make more of it, and eventually kill off the entire species of it. Its sick, its wrong, but its what we always do, I think we cause more damage to the world and its subjects than anything else....
