Okay quick story: I love cats I foster and I plan on getting my veterinary degree and opening a wild animal sanctuary with a focus of big cats and conservation of big cats in Thailand. Now there's all these people saying "I'm going to be the cool guy on the block and buy a big cat and I'll be so cool and it'll be perfect" Now so many of these "pets" once they're not tiny an cute cubs anymore or become to expensive they're just thrown aside or used for breeding to sell the cubs or to be used for people to pay to bottle feed and take selfies with. Now this is SOOOO dangerous I raise orphan kittens and the things that go wrong with bottle feeding if they love animals as they claim they wouldn't subject them to it it's stressful and sometimes even deadly. Also they have no immune system since they're taken ate birth. Then also right away passed from person to person with unclean clothes and hands passing so many germs to there brand new immune system causing them to get sometimes fatally sick and they usually never get any care if they do its in home care not professional care (it's to expensive for their owners that make thousands off them to spare). And these people also like to claim "were helping conservation" they Aren't. Period. it's been shown seeing people walking them on leashes taking selfies and getting to bottle feed and snuggle them actually decreases conservation. It creates the allusion they make great pets so I should keep one and they don't need conserving cause there's so many in captivity. Not to mention most of these animals are inbred further hurting things.
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