Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Tips On How To Pet A Tiger

By Alta Alexander


People consider the tiger to be a big cat, this is literary the case because they share the same family with the house cat. On the other end, some even harbor the thought of taming the wild cat since they consider the normal house cat to be a pretty little creature; they also expect pet a tiger and have it behave in the same manner.

The tiger is a very intelligent animal and its more intelligent than both the domestic cat and dog which are our common pets. Its intelligence tends to work to its own advantage in nature and if this intelligence is enhanced and taped at an early age the big cats can be trained to follow commands just like all the other domestic pets we commonly know but with a greater amount of strength.

The animal as a pet is also considered to be very good in enhancing security in homestead just like the common guard dogs. This is because the tiger is a highly territorial animal and in this case any creature that crosses into its territory is considered competition; this combined with its size and strength makes it a killing machine.

Even in captivity tigers do not to lose their killer instincts, this instinct they use for their upkeep despite the situation in captivity. They are known to practice and sharpen their skills with anything they can lay their paws on. Some cases have been recorded whereby they pounce on their owners just as a way of practice.

Tigers are naturally solitary animals, and even in the wild they live alone until it reaches the time to mate at around this time the females and male tigers meet up and at other instances of meeting the meet up usually results into fierce battles. In captivity the tigers have been recorded to kill even fellow smaller animals that at times they were brought up with and even played with when they were cubs.

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 only trust one or two people in their life time and in case the persons are not available they cannot trust anyone else. In instances where the trusted person had to leave or died, they are reported to have starved to death as they ignored the food brought by other non trusted persons.

In case they are put in as pets then later on in its life it is sent back to the wild while it was not taught to hunt they are known to hunt humans since they form an easy target. This is naturally what animals do in order to survive which in this case does not need training but just their instinct.




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