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Saturday, April 17, 2010

Tiger-nursing 'miracle' dog saves the farm


Dogs and cats don’t always see paw to paw, but in an amazing story of animal kindness, one golden retriever named Isabella adopted three white tiger cubs that were abandoned by their mother.
Tom and Allie Harvey, owners of the Safari Zoological Park — a private zoo in Caney, Kansas — own the cubs who found a mother in Isabella — described as the “sweetest most gentle Golden Retriever” by her owners — has been nursing the baby tiger cubs ever since their mother rejected them just 24 hours after giving birth. Now 7 weeks old, the cubs named Anjika, Nagira and Siddhani are healthy, strong and have just finished weaning.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Golden Tiger





From Wikipedia :

" Golden tabby

A golden tabby tiger is one with an extremely rare color variation caused by a recessive gene and is currently only found in captive tigers. Like the white tiger, it is a color form and not a separate species. In the case of the golden tiger, this is the wide band gene; while the white tiger is due to the color inhibitor (chinchilla) gene. There are currently believed to be fewer than 30 of these rare tigers in the world, but many more carriers of the gene.