Surely there should be some law controlling lads selling dangerous wild animals. I was just on donedeal and there is a lad in Leitrim selling a caiman… not a full crocodile but could easily hospitalise you, or eat your dog… or your child.
This isn’t Tiger King. I’m all for people having pets but surely there should be some regulation, so the local nutcase can’t just buy a crocodile on a whim and keep it in his shed without any questions being asked.
Fair enough if you are going to build a massive enclosure with a heated pool but in the pictures he just has it in a box full of woodchips.
For anyone in the market for a Caiman, here is the link to ad:
https://www.donedeal.ie/reptiles-for-sale/dwarf-caiman/30973379
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Don’t think there’s much in the way of controls. I know somebody who sold animals for a living and the only thing stopping him from selling venomous animals was personal ethics.
Maybe it’s changed in recent years but doesn’t look like it.
How small is your dog/child? Judging by the pics, that caiman is 14 inches long
I mean, it’s a dwarf caiman, how big can they ge
> [The dwarf caiman is the smallest member of the crocodilian family, growing to be about **four to five feet** in length.](https://thelivingplanet.com/dwarf-caimans/)
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.
Hypothetically how well would this lad do in… Let’s say a bog?
My ma grew up in Cuba.
She has a story about how one of her uncle’s lost part of his leg to a caiman.
They’re dangerous as fuck to local people out fishing.
From what she’s told me they lived on an island now known as Isla Juventud, back then it was Isla de Piños. Theres a large swamp to the north of the island.
Though the story is a bit of an old family story and it could have been a Cuban crocodile instead of a spectacled caiman. Either one could fuck you up if it got the chance.