mgsotacon:

reminder that even though white tigers and golden tigers do have pretty colors, they are the colors that they are because of horrible inbreeding. heres an example of how bad it can actually get:

This is about halfway correct. White and golden tigers can occur naturally, as a result of rare color mutations.

Most of them in captivity are, unfortunately, ones that have been inbred for their rare coloration. Not only can the offspring of such attempts end up being horribly deformed, their normally-colored siblings are often killed at birth or kept in tiny cages until they’re large enough to be slaughtered for parts.