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This is Why No One Should Ever Breed White Tigers

One look at Kenny and it’s clear why white tigers shouldn’t be bred.

Kenny was rescued in 2000 at around 2 years old. He was living in filth at a private breeder in Arkansas, but because of his obvious deformities he wasn’t pretty enough to sell and the breeder called Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge to get rid of him.

“The gentleman that we rescued him from said he would constantly run his face into the wall,” Emily McCormack, animal curator for Turpentine Creek, told The Dodo. “But it was clear that that wasn’t the situation.”

Rather, it was apparent that Kenny’s looks were the unsurprising result of the generations of inbreeding that go into creating white tigers.

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