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The announcement came after animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) wrote a letter to Tinder founder and chairman Sean Rad to explain why photographs of people posing with the big cats is cruel to the majestic animals. Posted just a day before International Tiger Day on July 29, the Tinder blog referred to PETA's appeal to "rid the platform of tiger photos" and said "we could not agree more." In case you don't understand why posing for photographs with tigers or other big cats -- unless it was taken in the wild and the person being photographed somehow survived -- are cruel, here's another excerpt from the PETA letter: "Baby tigers and other animals used at photo attractions are typically torn away from their distraught mothers when they're just days old and then subjected to extreme stress and physical abuse. There are websites and Instagram accounts, such as tigersoftinder and tinderguyswithtigers, that catalog Tinder profiles that have pictures of people posing with the animals.