Ligers and Cruelty
Over the past couple of years, there has been a great rise in the reproduction of the ligers. United States is the country of ligers, as it has most numbers of ligers than any other country all around the world. China is the second country having most numbers of ligers on its soil. However, along with the breeding of ligers, the concerns have also being raised over the ethics and cruelty with the ligers. India was the first country, which gave the opportunity to reproduce the ligers with a human intervention. This article focuses on some shocking cruel facts for which ligers are actually breed and then dumped which is the cruelest of all.
In United States of America, there is a huge demand for having exotic animals as their pets. Some reports have confirmed that exotic big cats business is as big as multi-billion dollars in United States. Some people are solely breeding ligers for the sake of money. People initially purchase the cubs, they might treat them well, but whenever, they grow up, and these ligers are actually left abandoned because people have no space for them to feed and to take care.
In our project ligerworld.com we have experienced different ligers that have been living in the poor conditions at the local homes and they were being rescued by the wild cat sanctuary. Freckles the liger is one such example, it was saved from highly unfavorable conditions. Her teeth even decayed because of starvation as well as unhygienic conditions.
Not only these ligers and other big cats pose a huge threat to the people living in the surroundings where they are living with the exotic animals. One survey reported that just through tigers each year about 10 people get killed. At the end people just kill them or just euthanize them to death.
Some experts also believe that ligers and other big cats do not end up well in their life. They are either left abandoned to die, or smuggled to other countries for different reasons. They smuggle the animal while sedating them again and again which can be a life threatening situation for the ligers and other big cat.
People even take away the teeth of the ligers and other wild cats as well. This can be one of the most painful procedures for an animal. Some even cut the nails at the paws of the big cats as well so that they do not hurt others. Imagine an animal that cannot eat properly, and does not have any natural habitat. This is a living worst than a slave as you are making the ligers being handicapped so that they do not hurt others.
