Saturday, April 25, 2015

Tips On How To Pet A Tiger

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By Alta Alexander


Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder as the saying goes so does it apply to tigers, many are attracted to the sheer beauty of this striped, magnified house cat. Indeed the tiger is beautiful, its cubs are so innocent that almost all parties over look its sheer power to be in the future that they decide to tame and pet a tiger which can be either a disaster in making or a blessing in disguise depending on how they handle it.

Having a tiger for a pet is a blessing in disguise; this is because the animal is basically a cat and a dog combined, this is able to happen because the tiger has the behavior of both a cat and a dog both at the same time. It is an intelligent pet thus has the ability to act as a cat since it is its nature and also has the ability to behave like a dog thus the owner has the advantage of having two pets in one body.

Tigers are known to form excellent service guard animal just like the dog but on a whole new different perspective without the constant barking but with high precision protection. These they achieve through their instinct which is natured toward being highly territorial. They guard their territories with so much vigor that in case any animal or unknown individual crosses into the territory they attack.

When they have been taken in as pets they never lose their killer instinct since this instinct is something that they were born with and they cannot change it instead they only minimize it since they do not have to use it to hunt or survive because their needs have been catered for in captivity.

When they are still cubs they do not have problems putting up with other animals but once they grow up to becoming adults they live a solitary life and they tend to kill all other smaller animals around them since the animals were found in their territory. Even if they were brought up with the smaller animal in its childhood they are known to kill intruders.

At whatever age they may be, be it a cub to an alpha male, their maintenance is costly, it is expensive because the cat does not eat regular cat food neither does it thrive on little meat, so the pet owner must be able to maintain a constant healthy diet for the tiger to be in optimum shape and sound health.

Tigers are known to very choosy when it comes to trusting an individual; in their lifetime they tend to trust one or two individuals who feed them and in cases where the trusted persons are unavailable the pet tigers have a tendency of waiting till the trusted person comes in order to eat the food served by the individual or in case they do not show up they are known to starve to death.

While in captivity tigers are supposed to be trained how to hunt on their own so that if they are ever released to the wild they can depend on their own skill since they are known to hunt human beings because we form an easy target.




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