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(46,327 posts) Sun May 13, 2012, 04:42 PM May 2012

How about a Mothers' Day squee?

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How about a Mothers' Day squee? (Original Post) Archae May 2012 OP

wait ... white tigers zbdent May 2012 #1

Aren't white tigers bred through inbreeding? backscatter712 May 2012 #2

zbdent

(35,392 posts)

1. wait ... white tigers

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Sun May 13, 2012, 05:49 PM

May 2012

not owned by Siegfried and Roy?

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)

2. Aren't white tigers bred through inbreeding?

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Sun May 13, 2012, 08:04 PM

May 2012

IIRC, a lot of animal rights activists object to the breeding of white tigers because they're severely inbred, have a lot of genetic defects, and a lot of cubs born from such inbreeding die or suffer from serious deformities.

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