Animals This is Kenny, the ugliest tiger in the world. His broad face, short muzzle and large underbite were the result of a breeding program of dierenhandelaars. He was only kept alive, because the son of the owner him cute found, but died fifteen years too early to skin cancer. Kenny was the symbol of the fight against the pet shop, which still today is a battle.
The story of Kenny, who in 2008 died, comes back up after in the Czech republic is a tijgerboerderij was discovered where tigers are slaughtered for their meat. It was in a farm in Bentonville in the Us state of Arkansas where Kenny, in 1998, was born.
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Kenny was the victim of a program in which two Bengal tigers with a different pigment with each other are mated. In the wild, these tigers only 1 time in 10,000, and the cubs die, usually. But unfortunately, they by their separate appearance for big money sold: the price of a white tiger can be up to 53.000 $ (46.000 euro), a cub will cost about 7,000 dolllar (6.000 euro).
Also in the breeding program to die with the cubs often and only 1 in 30 is born without deviation. The other 29 are either deformed, look cross-eyed, or have breath – and kauwproblemen. This cubs are usually also finished. And the tigers continue life, immediately after birth when the mother is removed.
