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I hope they don't try to keep the mom dog and the tiger cubs together once the tigers are grown. Tigers are apparently really unpredictable. There have been a number of cases of tigers, raised from cubs by humans, who, once they were adults, attacked, killed, and ate their human 'owners' for no obvious reason. Lions, too, have been raised from cubs, and similar incidents regarding lions do occur, but seem to be quite rare. Full grown tigers, though, are very dangerous, even if you have raised them from a cub.

I find that very interesting. There are marked psychological differences between wild animals and domesticated ones. Raising a wolf cub won't turn him into a dog. Dogs said to be descended from wolves and golden jackels, but their personalities are 'doggish' of tens of thousands of years of selective breeding by humans, in which dogs who exhibited aggressive behavior towards their owners were killed, hopefully before they could breed.

Maybe if primitive man had domesticated tigers, we'd have safe tigers today.