Not cute: having an endangered animal in your home as a pet, especially when it’s one that will grow up to be a very large, strong, aggressive animal.
Especially not cute: handling a young cub with bare hands because their immune systems aren’t developed yet. They get sick easily.
Exotic animals are not pets. Big cats are not pets. Endangered animals really are not pets what the fuck. This is appalling and where the hell did they get that cat.
What the hell… there are as few as 3,500 snow leopards left in the wild. The exotic pet trade is the last thing we need hurting conservation efforts right now.
I’m honestly really shocked and disgusted by this - I know it’s unfortunately very easy to get tiger cubs, lion cubs… but snow leopard cubs? I don’t even wanna know how they got their hands on one. And as was mentioned above, snow leopards grow up to be very large and deadly. This is not an animal that the average person can provide adequate care for, and most “pet” big cats end up living in deplorable conditions due to this.
This is not cute. It sends a terrible message to the public about big cats.
A tiger that mauled the abbot of a Thai temple under fire over the welfare of dozens of big cats in its care “didn’t intend” to attack him, the monk’s doctor said on Monday. More info
“Didn’t intend to attack.” :/ ah yes let’s downplay the danger of wild animals.
So I’ve had this idea for a while that perhaps in order for a wildlife institution to use the label of “ZOO” they would have to be an actual functioning zoological research or education center, having its main focus on the animals themselves. Many zoos and aquariums serve as…
Another self-righteous post from someone who believes they should be able to stand in judgement over how other people own, interact with, and love their animals. “Display” does not equal de facto exploitation. Even non-profit organizations have to be profitable enough to cover their operating expenses. It is not necessarily evil for animals to have a job which contributes money to their own support. Can we not work to make all these places into safe places for animals rather than getting out the old let’s-ban-everything-that-makes-us-personally-uncomfortable mentality? Love and compassion for animals is great. Let’s try to extend it to our fellow people too.
All right, I’m going to word this as nicely as possible.
Animals, aside from domesticated animals such as dogs and horses, do not understand the concept of ‘’work’’. That is not only a human concept, it is also a capitalist concept so there are literally entire societies in this world that doesn’t even know of the existence of ‘’working to cover live expenses’’.
The people that are against these facilities (that yes, are exploitative) are not mindless animal rights protestors self pretentious vegans. They know exactly what they’re protesting against. Especially wild animals do not understand the completely human concept of work, and to make them act against their instincts to cover ‘’life expenses’’- something that they don’t understand either- is completely cruel, too. there are endangered species in the ownership of these circusses, species that are solitary apex predators. in what world is putting a species that evolved to keep the balance of the prey numbers in its area in a completely different environment that enforces fear and uses it to ‘’train’’ said species humane i wonder?
i come from the netherlands. netherlands, along with other west european countries, are HUGE advocates for animal welfare. and yes, animal circusses are basically unheard of in the netherlands. you come from america. america… is a country that can lick my nicely shaved, well cleaned anus i’m sorry.
^ like that preferably
and you’re trying to tell me your country does it better than mine?
feel free to join in the anus licking party i guess………..
lmao what are do u live in to think animal circusses are good get with the program we’re not living in the middle ages anymore lmao grow a set of brains and enlighten urself regarding animal welfare and animal psychology and then come back with ur cheap, ugly af blog to tell actual knowledged ppl about what’s good or not :)
Hi! I ask that you please don’t glorify king cheetahs - at least include some information on the truth behind them when you post photographs. They are inbred and exploited, as are other big cat color morphs such as white or golden tabby tigers. Read my post here to learn more about them.
(This was also taken at the De Wildt cheetah centre which is known for purposely breeding tons of king cheetahs so…)
On a different note, I know we previously were talking about the declawing mystery at Black Jaguar White Tiger. panthxra had pointed out that a black jaguar named Cielis(or Cielo) had very deflated looking paws, characteristic of a declaw. She was Eduardo’s first and is his favorite cat, meaning she arguably gets the most direct contact. I’ve gone through almost every video of this jaguar(yes I have been doing this for two hours and am thousands of posts deep on his instagram) and have not seen any sign of her claws as an adult. In the above video, you can see how she clutches the bowl around the edges, no claws. There’s this video of her playing with the same yellow jaguar(who has he claws). She doesnt flash her claws once, even towards the end of the video when her right paw clutches the top edge of the ramp.
In this video you can see how flat her paws are. Then this video where she grabs the top of his head but we don’t see so much as a tip of her claw. I would keep going but I have so many of the thumbnails displayed at this point that the videos aren’t loading anymore.
Now I know when this came up before someone has said that Cielis was rescued declawed already. Except…. Shewasn’t. And here’s another video of her where she appears to be a bit older (couple months?) but still has her claws….so when was she declawed?
So is Eduardo declawing his cats? First partaking in the pay to play schemes he condemns(like going and getting pictures taken with the father of the yellow jag in this video), now this?
Just another reason why I do not trust this place. I know he loves and is passionate about these cats and seems to take moderately good care of them, but all the direct contact, the breeding, the buying, and the interspecies interactions are not helping the cause. If he really wants to do his best for these cats he needs to change a lot of his practices.
And as a side note, the sheer number of comments about how people “want one too” and “want to cuddle them” that I came across in this search are significant enough. It shows why it’s a problem for these really popular big cat people(-cough-Richardson-cough-) to make the entirety of their public image be of them cuddling these cats.
King Cheetahs: Is their beauty worth the consequences?
written by admin Lynx
The king cheetah is a color mutation of the cheetah, causing blotches and stripes in place of their usual, uniform spots. Sometimes, they even have small “manes,” with the fur on the back of their neck and shoulder blades being longer than they tend to be on the average cheetah. At one point, they were classified as their own species, Acinonyx rex, though this was disproved in 1981 when two spotted female cheetahs gave birth to king cheetah cubs at the De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre in South Africa.
The king tabby mutation is recessive, meaning that both parents must possess the gene for it to show on the coat of their offspring. Due to this, only a handful are believed to exist in the wild. But of course, it did not take long for humans to take notice of these unique cheetahs and exploit them.
Following a series of dramatic events, Thailand’s Department of National Parks (DNP) director- general, Nipon Chotiban, has ordered all tigers to be removed from the Tiger Temple by the end of April.
Anonymous said: Obviously the place is bad but I don't really see how contact is the end all be all and they're suddenly a TERRIBLE place even if everything else is GREAT or EXCELLENT? (not that this facility is but just as an example)
(Reference to the facility that dapartygrind was at in Australia)
It is the end all for me. Because when staff are allowed to interact directly with large cats, it shows an incredible misunderstanding of the animals being cared for and a level of irresponsibility that has no place with wild animals, let alone apex predators. It presents an image of the cats to the public where they are perceived as “large housecats” and continues the subculture of people that want to cuddle or even own big cats. The decision to have direct contact with an adult lion or tiger is not “just the person’s decision” as people like to quickly point out. They are also making the decision for the cat on whether or not they get to live if an attack takes place. A lion that kills its handler is going to either be destroyed our put into isolation. And that is never a situation we should be putting these animals in.
A place that also allows contact with cubs opens up a situation where we can get at risk animals sick(because if a 4 week old cub is spending all day in the hands of strangers, they are certainly not nursing off their mothers and building their immune systems). No one ever asks why the cubs aren’t with their mothers. And season after season of new cubs being presented for interaction, the excuse would always remain the same: “the mom rejected them.” An easy out that makes people feel better about providing “TLC” to poor abandoned cubs that were probably taken from their mothers at birth for such encounters. Any place that allows cub petting, no matter how good they seem or how much they condemn “shady” petting schemes is simply creating a situation where “WE are the only good ones so spend your money here!” It’s misleading, dishonest, and regardless of what they say still fuels an industry. People that pet cubs at a “nice” place will think that cub petting is acceptable anywhere that can maintain a good outward appearance. “I pet a tiger at this one place and it seemed okay, so we should go to the mall this weekend, they’ll have cubs and it’ll support conservation!”
Any place that allows direct contact with lethal wild animals, or exploits the young of said animals is absolutely a bad facility in my book. They can tout about their conservation ideals as much as they want, but as long as they irresponsibly and dangerously manage their animals in a way that does NOT fall in line with giving the animals the best care, I will not ever consider them a great or excellent facility.
