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Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:19 pm  |
I subscribe to a newsletter called Popbitch and today there was a blurb about Siegfried and Roy's tigers at the Mirage, which I've seen. I clicked the link at the end and was reading about these tigers all afternoon...it's really sad and it's not exactly common knowledge:
Siegfried and Roy and the mutant tigers
Three-and-a-half years on from almost being killed by his white tiger, Montecore, Roy Horn is alive and even walking. He lives in constant pain, does not yet have use of his left side or leg and does many hours of rehab and exercise every day, but as Horn died four times and was told he'd never walk again, he's not complaining.
"A doctor would try to pull a sheet over my head and I would push it back," says Roy. "He said `He won't make it,' and I started to meditate. I knew everything would be okay. God said it wasn't my time to go."
Roy has vowed to return to show business - for the sake of his tigers. "The animals are waiting, too, to do something again."
However, not everyone loves Roy and his lifetime's work breeding white tigers. Animal rights activists say there is a 80% white tiger stillbirth rate and, as the tigers are so in-bred, the most common result is a deformed, mentally sub-normal mutant.
See Kenny the white tiger:
http://tinyurl.com/2fjhrx
I know this picture is huge, but it puts a (sad) face to the story.
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:33 pm |
| MSS, is this the pic of the same tiger that mauled Roy? |
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:42 pm |
No, that is one of the deformed tigers at a cat rescue. The link above the picture has the story about him.
ETA: Here's another link: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/white_tigers.htm
ETA Again =): I didn't post that because I feel bad for Roy Horn...I don't anymore after reading more about it. On their site they say that they are devoted to preserving "royal" white tigers, but they don't explain that they only exist today because of forced captive inbreeding. |
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