Ligers

[Argranade]

My issue with the link you provided isn't necessarily that the animal is a liger, but because the poor thing has a chain on it's neck. I don't think wild animals belong in any kind of circus act. It's upsetting for the animal and dangerous for the handler.

Yeah that's also what pissed me off, now they have the poor thing in the circus.

[Husky15]

I don't know what to say about the crossing of Lions and Tigers -- it just sorta creeps me out. Lions weren't meant to mate with Tigers, but there really is nothing we can do.

I saw a picture of a Liger on Google one time and I really was surprised because I heard of them on Napoleon Dynamite, so I was like, "Holy crap! They do exist!" They are beautiful, though.

[Miss Z]

Creating ligers is all very well and they certainly are beautiful animals, but sometimes I think it would be far better to just try to preserve the ever diminshing number of tigers (and also, Asiatic lions, although I doubt that they use those to make ligers) before it's too late.

[borzoimom]

There was a show a few years back, about this horrid place called "Ligertown" that the cats were terribly treated, with miles of fences interlocking and one night one or two of the cats attacked these dreadful people when they went to feed them. Killing the people then they got loose. The sheriffs office were called, and by morning I forgot how many but it was alot most of the ligers were dead- shot dead out of defense from the officers. The rest of the cats were rescued, and placed in some santuaries- but it was horrid what happened there..
And the sanctuary spokeswoman said- this is not a natural species- they only life a liger would have is in someone's cage, or a traveling type circus, or a roadside zoo... Not even a real zoo where they are well cared for and for public education- usually the worst of circumstances.