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Tiger Snorkle at Big Cat RescueSnorkle  Male Siberian/Bengal Tiger

DOB 1996

Snorkel was born in 1996 to the same abuser who bred Nakoma the lion.  She breeds lions and tigers and uses them to make money by selling you a photo of you holding a cute little cub.  The general public just doesn’t understand what could be wrong with this? Typically, these cubs are starved, deprived of bone building calcium and even poisoned to give them constant diarrhea so that they cannot gain weight.  Exhibitors do this because the cubs are only profitable while they are small.  According to FL state law, the public cannot touch the cubs once they reach 45 pounds.  Consequently, they are discarded. 


Snorkel was given to a small, family-operated circus when he exceeded 45 pounds at the age of 6 months. Because he had been so deprived of nutrition, he was very tiny and stands on little stunted legs.  The other bigger circus tigers beat him up and one bit him across the nose so severely that, when he chuffs, it sounds like he is drowning, thus his name.  He has never had soft grass to roll in or a pool or mountain cave to call his own before coming to Big Cat Rescue.  He has been one of the happiest tigers we have ever rescued. 

Help us put a stop to the barbaric practices that enable people to ruin the lives of these magnificent animals for a few dollars here: http://capwiz.com/bigcatrescue/issues/alert/?alertid=6794751&type=ME

 

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