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why-animals-do-the-thing:chocolatequeennk:deapseelugia:catchymemes:Sick Tiger Cub Gets Rescued From Circus, Makes Incredible Recovery And Finds LoveSHES BLEPPING IN THE LAST PHOTO HELP ME Since so many “tiger rescues” aren’t really rescues at all, I did some googling on this one. Good news: This is a legit rescue, carried out by Tigers in America. This organisation rescues tigers from horrible situations like this.If you’re an animal conservationist looking for an organisation to support, Tigers in America is worth looking into.In-Sync Exotics - the place this cat lives - is a legitimate sanctuary, but this whole piece is actually just a rip-off of a Dodo “article”. The clickbait sentence above is the title and probably supposed to be an embedded link. I’m not a fan of the fact that this post doesn’t bother to name the facility currently housing her. Aasha was brought to In-Sync with massive ringworm (what you see in the photos above) along with open wounds that were possibly bite marks. The In-Sync Exotics website doesn’t say where she came from - just that she was bouncing from situation to situation - but the Dodo article (which I am purposefully not linking to, because they are trash) says she was seized from a circus by the USDA. I can’t source that, and I generally mistrust the Dodo because they can’t fact-check their way out of an open door, but they did interview the sanctuary’s founder so it’s likely at least close to the truth. Here’s Aasha’s full story, as given by the sanctuary:“By the time Aasha came to In-Sync she was almost completely bald.We were told that she was believed to be about 7 months old and stunted in growth making her about the size of a bobcat. Weighing in at 37 pounds told us that she was around 4 months old. She wasn’t underweight but was covered all over with ringworm. Her tiny feet were swollen and red; the skin on her tummy was raw, red and cracking. For 4 weeks we had to give Aasha baths with medicated shampoo and dip her in a special dip. She also had to take two kinds of oral medications to help clear up and sooth her skin.Since Aasha has been here she is healing and becoming more like a tiger cub. She enjoys playing with her enrichment and has learned to play with the water from the hose. She hasn’t jumped in her tub yet but we know it is just a matter of time. All of us at In-Sync are looking forward to a long happy healthy life with Aasha and a lot of great laughs.“As the photos above / Dodo “article” show, Aasha is now housed with another adult tiger - a male named Smuggler. Contrary to the messaging espoused by some of the big cat sanctuaries with a large internet presence, it is actually entirely okay and a fairly normal practice to co-house adult big cats… IF their personalities are compatible. Introductions are done slowly, starting at a distance, and they’re set up for success and to minimize any incidence of resource guarding or territorial issues. Some big cats - even tigers - really like having companionship. Some don’t. Both are fine and good. In-Sync is not accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries, but after looking through their site and from what I’ve heard about them over the years, I’m not worried about that. It sounds like their tours are self-guided (you walk around on your own, like you would at a zoo), which is something GFAS standards prohibit. There are any number of reasons a small sanctuary would choose to prioritize having self-guided tours, but the most probable is that guided tours take a lot of extra staff and/or volunteer time and training. Most of their organization is volunteer-run, and if they’re going to focus on animal care instead of having docents shepherd people around, that’s a reasonable choice. Tigers in America is not really a great metric to use for if a rescue or a facility is one to support, because they’re basically a membership organization for sanctuaries with tigers. Their founder is on the GFAS board, and honestly, given how he’s been talking since 2014 about how TIA facilities collectively have more tigers than AZA’s conservation breeding programs do… I’m not sure how much stock I put in them. They’re supposed to be a collection of the “best” big cat sanctuaries, but I can’t find the metric they’re using to determine that. They’ve got a lot of high-profile members, like Big Cat Rescue, and some really weird places, like The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado - which has over 500 carnivores that they’ve imported from across the glove, has an very strict no-photos policy, won’t let you in the gate unless you give them a ton of personal information, and puts their employees and visiting professionals under incredibly tight non-disclosure agreements. There are other credible big cat sanctuaries, such as Tiger Haven in Tennessee (where the cats owned by Ringling went), that are not part of the TIA network. You’ve really gotta do your own research into each and every place you think you want to support.  -- source link

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