Imagine house training an elephant. As far as exotic animals go, snakes are the best. Lovely low maintainance creatures.
The title of this article like it’s some big panic lmao.
A test for exotic ownership sounds all good and well, but who would be the one making the test? I’ve seen self proclaimed authorities on some species share really bad information. Including vets who aren’t always the epitome of knowledge on exotics (and a good exotic vet will be realistic about their knowledge). Honestly too I’ve seen privately kept primate species in much better enclosures than some zoos. There’s the stereotype of marmosets in parrot cages but I don’t know how frequent that is compared to those keeping them in proper aviaries. My information will be biased to the latter, I’m aware.
Breeders/importers of all pets should be licensed full stop. We have a decent track record for animal welfare in modern times compared to other western nations and we should be pushing that harder. It’s bad enough that ‘Karen and Steve’ can get away with breeding unhealthy cats and dogs with no oversight, so we should certainly be prohibiting exotic pet ownership.
What is comes down to is this, do we care more for the animals or more for ourselves? If the answer is the latter then you aren’t a responsible pet owner.
This is like clockwork. Every year there is an article on exotics .
I’m sure the elephants have a better quality of life than those in slavery in their native ranges. As for the tigers yeah that doesn’t sound like a good idea at all. Lemurs? I’ve worked in zoos with them before and honestly I don’t see the problem.
Those are exotics so their masters are probably sophisticated as well.
Who the hell is keeping Elephants as a pet? How are they doing that? I am somewhat flabbergasted that there are people that have an elephant as a pet.
It is why tales of big cat roaming the countryside persist. They get out or are released by private owners periodically and can survive perfectly well in the right area, at least for a bit.
Cyril my alligator clears the waiting room when I take him to the vets.
“there are at least 2,500 wild animals in private collections in England, including snakes and scorpions, 300 wild cats, more than 200 primates – and even two elephants.”
So, mostly snakes/scorpions, most of the wild cats will be the little ones, and probably one person with a pair of elephants. Headlines be headlining.
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Imagine house training an elephant. As far as exotic animals go, snakes are the best. Lovely low maintainance creatures.
The title of this article like it’s some big panic lmao.
A test for exotic ownership sounds all good and well, but who would be the one making the test? I’ve seen self proclaimed authorities on some species share really bad information. Including vets who aren’t always the epitome of knowledge on exotics (and a good exotic vet will be realistic about their knowledge). Honestly too I’ve seen privately kept primate species in much better enclosures than some zoos. There’s the stereotype of marmosets in parrot cages but I don’t know how frequent that is compared to those keeping them in proper aviaries. My information will be biased to the latter, I’m aware.
Btw it’s 3 elephants kept privately in the UK. https://www.skandavale.org/about/elephants/
Breeders/importers of all pets should be licensed full stop. We have a decent track record for animal welfare in modern times compared to other western nations and we should be pushing that harder. It’s bad enough that ‘Karen and Steve’ can get away with breeding unhealthy cats and dogs with no oversight, so we should certainly be prohibiting exotic pet ownership.
What is comes down to is this, do we care more for the animals or more for ourselves? If the answer is the latter then you aren’t a responsible pet owner.
This is like clockwork. Every year there is an article on exotics .
I’m sure the elephants have a better quality of life than those in slavery in their native ranges. As for the tigers yeah that doesn’t sound like a good idea at all. Lemurs? I’ve worked in zoos with them before and honestly I don’t see the problem.
Those are exotics so their masters are probably sophisticated as well.
Who the hell is keeping Elephants as a pet? How are they doing that? I am somewhat flabbergasted that there are people that have an elephant as a pet.
It is why tales of big cat roaming the countryside persist. They get out or are released by private owners periodically and can survive perfectly well in the right area, at least for a bit.
Cyril my alligator clears the waiting room when I take him to the vets.
“there are at least 2,500 wild animals in private collections in England, including snakes and scorpions, 300 wild cats, more than 200 primates – and even two elephants.”
So, mostly snakes/scorpions, most of the wild cats will be the little ones, and probably one person with a pair of elephants. Headlines be headlining.