Stunning. Beautiful. The stuff of fantasies and fairy tales. These are all valid descriptions of the magical white tiger. There is no doubt that these impressive snowy creatures with ice-blue eyes arrest the attention of countless admirers. Their charm is such that few people ever question just what a white tiger really is.
In some U.S. states exotic cats can be obtained through private breeders and dealers. In others the private ownership of cats is strictly regulated and is illegal without a license. As an example, residents of California must have two years of full-time experience working with wild cats at a licensed facility before they can apply for a license of their own. If an unlicensed person is caught with an exotic cat it will be confiscated by the State Fish and Game Department. Given that there are few rescue facilities with enough cage space to deal with a confiscated wild cat,
I have been working with cats for almost 25 years now and the one thing I can always count on is that the facts about cats we thought to be true in the past may change in the future. I can give a big list of facts, or maybe I should call them ideas that we thought were true but they ended up being our best guess at the time. Here are a few examples:
