Special Kitties

Darkest Angel · #1 ● 08-24-2012, 07:10 PM

The first issue considered when a birth defect, also referred to as a congenital defect, occurs is genetics. This evaluation will include not only the effected kitten, but the parents, grandparents and further descendents as well. When a kitten is developing during pregnancy, there are millions of episodes of genetic activity as DNA is generating copies of itself for cellular divisions, and also doing its work to provide the blue-prints for all the cellular activities necessary for life. Accidents do happen, and sometimes a glitch occurs during this activity that results in deformity or even death of the embryo.

Quite beautiful to the eye, but not necessarily beneficial to the animal itself, white animals, true albinos, & other color variations do occur in nature. Due to the fact that they do not blend in, generally they do not survive. This is particularly true with prey animals such as deer.

(reprinted from think oracle animal abuse website=The myth of the Rare White Bengal Tiger was an illusion meant to deceive the public into thinking that these cats were endangered and being preserved for future generations. The truth of the matter is that they aren’t even pure Bengal tigers, but rather are all the offspring of an original Siberian / Bengal cross breeding. The inbreeding results in many defects, early deaths, and still births)... While i agree that inbreeding is a problem it is my understanding that there have been naturally occuring white tigers,lions, ect. After all, mutations are a way of life. Successful mutations serve to advance a species whereas unsuccessful mutations generally end in death or at least a difficult way of life.