Why is a liger a bad animal to have?

There are too many reasons NOT to own one to fit on this page so I'll stick to the highlights. 1. Ligers, like their parents of lions and tigers, are large, wild cats. read more

So if your thought is to keep it illegally, realize the much more expensive legal and penalty fees that come along with the animal if its discovered to be kept illegally, not to mention the possible jail time along with that. read more

The liger is only one such concoction, by the way. There are also tigons, which is a cross between a female lion and a male tiger. (Ligers are technically the opposite.) Then you have leopons (leopard plus lion), jaguleps (jaguar plus leopard), and savannah cats (domestic cat plus serval). read more

Two"liger" cubs — the offspring of a Bengal tiger mother, Beauty, and African lion father, Simba — were born at a private Taiwan zoo last week. (See a liger. ) Intentionally crossbreeding the animals is illegal under Taiwanese law, and if found guilty, zoo owner Huang Kuo-nan could face a $1,500 fine, plus confiscation of the cubs. read more