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Reddit It's universally understood that cats hate water. I remember being a kid when my father gave my first cat a bath after she'd taken on some fleas. He had red scratch marks up and down his arms for weeks. Maybe you don't believe me. Maybe you want to test it out for yourself. After all, there are exceptions to every rule. And although he doesn't look like it based on his expression in the photo above, Odin--a white Bengal tiger at Six Flags "Discovery Kingdom" Vallejo, California--is one of these exceptions. Of course, a white Bengal tiger isn't the same a house cat. But you wouldn't want to take a tiger inside of your home, now, would you? ...

Bengal waffles but he don't come down. Photo: Barry Batchelor, PA / AP The world's biggest 'fraidy cat -- at least this week -- is a two-year-old Bengal tiger who's stuck at the top of a tower, too timid to climb back down to Earth. Tanvir, who lives at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm in Bristol, England, seemed to take to his new, 15-foot "activity tower" -- a structure of wooden platforms and, well, catwalks designed to sharpen the animal's agility and problem-solving skills -- when he scaled it in mere seconds on Monday. But now, he's staging a sit-in, refusing to walk back down. On Tuesday, the Daily Mail reported that "Tanvir has been spotted peering over the edge of the platform and ...

Photo: Kerry Hardy, Caters News / ZUMA Press For Fareeda, a six-month-old female Bengal tiger cub, being a rare white tiger just isn't cool enough. She also has no stripes. Fareeda was born at the Cango Wildlife Ranch in South Africa last Christmas. Part of a litter of three white tigers, Fareeda's lack of stripes wasn't something the keepers at the Cango Wildlife Ranch had counted on. Noticing that only two of the three newborn cubs bore the signature stripes, the keepers were delighted, though cautiously optimistic. Just because a tiger is born without stripes is no guarantee that it will remain that way. "Some cubs develop stripes in their first few months," said keeper Odette ...