That’s still plenty enough for me, PsychoC… anyway I’ve seen kittens’ eyes start out blue, then get their adult iris coloring later on. So, maybe these kits have golden eyes by now?

Well, unfortunately, those little kittens in the last picture do not qualify as pedigree Toygers. Looking into the TICA breed standard sheet (http://www.toygers.org/tgstd.html ) shows blue eyes as an “Award Withheld” condition. Meh. So these are officially just supercharged tabbies.

Wow – now I know what it is that my Brother has for a kitteh! And the kit’s name is even Tigga!

The pics are supra cute, but count me in as one of those completely creeped out by the marketing jargon used in the toygers.org website. They do come across as completely ignorant – no responsible breeder would ever use the language on that site to promote a breed.

I know what you mean, Koros. It may sound odd, but I still love the smell of meat grilling – and yet, meat doesn’t seem like food anymore. It would feel cannibalistic to me now to take a bite of another animal’s muscle and flesh. My boyfriend eats meat (not much red meat, though), and I’m not pushing him at all to become a vegetarian. I don’t lecture my friends or family – I just try to show through my actions that there are other options in this world.

Well, I don’t eat nearly as much meat now as I did before I married a vegetarian (who is so for religious reasons), but I am rather addicted to it. :/ I tried the vegetarian thing at one or two points in the past and it didn’t last longer than two months or so, sadly. The smell, the texture, the taste… It’s something that just can’t be replicated with an imitation product.

Not me, Koros! Tee hee! I’ve been a vegetarian for 17 years now, and it’s easy! (I still eat cheese on occasion, but buy organic cheese from local farms – I feel badly for the cows who make it for us, as their “useful” life is used up fairly quickly, so I make sure the cows are at least pasture-raised, not factory-farmed).
*Zpie jumps off her soapbox.

When I first saw this, my first thought (once I got over the cuteness) was also that it is a pitiful mindset that gives rise to these designer breeds. As I was commenting, however, I began to wonder how many of us have these same thoughts and yet don’t bat an eye before biting into that steak or chicken strip. I guess some animals just aren’t cute enough to warrant our concern.

That said, I am as hypocritical as anyone here… Still an omnivore myself.

this wouldn’t be so bad if i could just stop imagining what happens to the deliberately bred “rejects”

..and “the essence of tigerness” is just plain feeble

the cat is pleased