Dorothee
Germany
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Now that we know that the tiger cub is definitely going to make it and seeing how the animal sanctuary that is going to take care of him – it’s a male – in the near future desperately needs money, “Tierschutz Euskirchen” decided just now to report something that happened already the first week of September. Then a tiger-cub was found abandoned, hungry, dehydrated and cold on the steps of a veterinary clinic. It took more than two weeks of intense treatment until the kitten finally got rid of its life-threatening weakness and the wildcat sanctuary “Wildkatzenzentrum Felidae” even promised to take this animal in as soon as its health and age would make that possible. Now there’s only one problem, but a major one! The coats of this young tiger is common to several specimens of tiger that all require different treatment. Thus they neither know the subspecies of this tiger nor does the wildlife sanctuary know what it would take to take care of him. DNA-testing would help to find out the subspecies, but alas the “Wildkatzenzentrum Felidae” doesn’t have the money for any such testing. They speak English and German, so it really should be no problem for an English-speaker to contact them via the e-mail – info@wildkatzen-barnim.de – and ask them how you could send money to them if you wanted to. Oh! By the way there are some theories of which non could be proven so far concerning how the tiger-cub got there in the first place: It happens all the time that people try to import exotic animals to keep them as pets until said “pets” would eventually grow too big, too difficult to handle, too dangerous or too time-consuming for their master. Often these exotic souvenirs are found by customs officers before they could be brought to their new home. Even more often only the carcass of the exotic animal is found at the airport as its new owner cared more about hiding it very well in the luggage than about hiding the animal in a more humane way. However in some cases – and perhaps in this one too – people somehow manage to import the animal to Germany without anyone noticing and to hide it until they’d finally decide to abandon the once interesting, exotic pet. Maybe this was the case here, too. Another, albeit more unlikely theory says that the female tiger of a circus somehow managed to get pregnant and as the circus-owner didn’t want the tiger to have cubs, he simply decided to take it away from its mother to abandon the cub. P.S. Last time I checked “Wildkatzenzentrum Felidae” indeed did house a Javan leopard, too.
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