bigcatawareness:

Actually no. Not only is this the biggest IF in the world(some average Joe is not going to be able to give a big cat what it truly needs, they just aren’t), but by keeping these cats as pets the owners put so many lives at danger; mostly those who didn’t sign up for it at all. They endanger their neighbors, they endanger the cat(guess who else dies if the tiger kills someone?). Not only this, it furthers the breeding of conservationally useless generic tigers with many health defects, AND it feeds into the industry that’s going to treat the animals a hell of a lot worse than this fictional person who can somehow give them what they need. No matter how you slice it, it’s still dangerous and irresponsible.