How would you feel if you were taken away from your parents and your home and was put in a cage? This happens to many exotic animals all over the world. Whether the animal was already born in captivity or was plucked from the wild. Owning an exotic animal as a pet can be dangerous, time consuming, and cruel. People all around the U.S. own exotic animals when they shouldn’t. To begin with, owning an exotic animal can be dangerous. Not just to the owner but also to the people surrounding it. Since exotic animals are not domesticated, they can spread diseases or harm someone even if they didn’t mean to. “A wild animal is never 100 precent predictable.”, found in the article, Do You Really Want a Baby Tiger? by Mia Lewis. This quote
Owning exotic animals is both cruel to the animal its self and dangerous to those who care for the animals. Keeping exotic animals as pets is cruel. In the article Do You Really Want a Baby Tiger? by Mia Lewis the author states “The end result is that far too many of these exotic animals spend almost their entire lives in the ‘prison’ of a small cage.” Obviously, exotic animals are meant to be in environments that promote their natural behavior; forcing these animals to be locked up in a small pen
Have you ever wanted to own an exotic animal for a pet? Many people are against owning exotic animals as pets, but many are well taken care of and a very low number of people are killed. They are also born in captivity. People should be allowed to own exotic animals as pets.
In most places owning a dog or cat is second nature, but what about a tiger, bear or maybe python? Exotic pet ownership is far from having a clear right or wrong answer but it is in need of a ban for both the protection of animal and owner.For exotic pet owners, owning a wild beast insures a sense of power and uniqueness. It is also their way of contributing to the conservation of a species by having a “backup population” once human population growth and habitat destruction has resulted in extinction (Slater 113). But in reality the ownership of wild animals as pets only helps to damage already fragile ecosystems, both the one from which they came from and the new one in which they find themselves. Animals in captivity are also stripped of a natural life in the wild, free of confinement and unsuitable care. Finally, the risk to humans is very large, injuries inflicted from exotic pets are dangerous and possibly deadly. Bans vary from state to state, ranging from no ban to partial ban to complete ban, but even in states with full bans, exotic pet ownership still occurs. Private ownership of an exotic animal as a pet should be banned in the US, due to disruptions in ecosystems, the dangers that wild animals are exposed too, and the risks to the owners of these pets.
The U.S. is a patchwork of varying levels of exotic pet regulation. Some states take the problem seriously and have outright bans on owning dangerous wildlife. Other states, like Florida, ban some dangerous animals but not others. In some states, owning any dangerous wildlife is allowed but requires a permit. And in a handful of states—Ohio, Wisconsin, Nevada, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama—all exotic pet ownership is permitted, completely unrestricted and unregulated. Incidents of escape and intentional release abound, as demonstrated by an excellent documentary called The Elephant In The Living
To start off with, exotic animals are dangerous for owners. The text “Wild Animals aren’t Pets” states, “In 2009, a 2-year-old Florida girl was strangled by a 12 foot long Burmese python, a family pet that had gotten out of its aquarium.” This tells us that wild animals can easily hurt us with one little slip up.
Owning exotic animals could be good for the animals because you could breed them and keep their species alive. For humans you could open up a learning center and teach the kids about the animals or even adults. This could teach people to take more care of the animals. “Exotic pets are so different from cats and dogs that owning one can be an incredible learning experience.” says Dr Laurie Hess. The ways you can learn from owning these animals is amazing. Owning exotic pets wouldn’t be so bad after all.
With regard to keeping a pet, any animal can be mistreated and could possibly be a danger to their owner, but exotic pets present some unique dangers to their owners in terms of creating some
People who keep exotic animals as pets do not realize the danger they are putting on the animals or themselves. There have been around 2,000 incidents involving captive exotic pets that have been reported and 75 reported deaths between the years of 1990
Do you think it is acceptable to take innocent, wild animals out of their natural habitat for people’s amusement? Many people who think this is acceptable do not know what is risked when holding a wild animal captivated. As every year passes, there will be more and more people and animals being harmed or killed because exotic animals are owned as pets. It should be illegal to own an exotic animal(s) as a pet because it is dangerous to the animal(s) and the people, it can prevent the animal from being able to live in the wild, and it requires the owner significant life changes to accommodate them. The first and main issue is that people are put in danger when owning an exotic animal as a pet.
Exotic animals as pets maybe kept for various reasons. Some people keep them for adventure. They believe that by living with such animals their spirit of adventure will be fulfilled and they enjoy the thrill of living in such an
Wild animals kept as pets are popular in some contemporary countries. while ,wild animals are dangerous to keep at home, animals track people has been reported on social media frequently, most people will die after animals attacking,majority exotic animals carry diseases ,and also could affect humans' health eventually ,wild species are traded illegally into those countries frequently as it brought out huge benefit of incomes.
Although it may be different and fun to own an exotic animal, they require special care that most people just cannot provide. Many supporters claim they are just like other pets, but they require care that is very difficult to provide. This includes, a special diet, housing, and maintenance. These standards cannot be met by an average person, so Instead of trying to meet these animals needs, owners use cruel methods to make them more “pet like,” and domesticated. These methods include bleak or lifeless enclosures, and even chaining and beating. It’s thought people can domesticate these animals but that’s not the case. This would take several years of breeding. The problems go even further after this. Animals also often have things like claw and tooth removal, which are extremely painful. If a person cannot take care of the animal they turn to zoos, however zoos cannot take care of all the exotic pets handed over to
Throughout humanity there has been an unstable number of exotic animals to the world. To the point of where people started thinking it would be smart to keep them as pets. For example, such as a snake, tiger, or a giraffe. Most people have common sense enough to know those types of animals are not meant to belong as a pet. But there are a few people who think differently.
Exotic animals require a lot of attention they are not just a living decorations that a person has outside or inside their homes. These animals require proper care from people who know how to handle and care for them. They also require an environment that provides enrichment and exercise to prevent the animal from getting bored and to maintain a healthy happy life. Providing these types of enrichments not only is physically healthy but also mentally healthy for the animal. The environment of the enclosure should also
First of all, keeping exotic animals will bring risk and danger to human not only for the owners but for the neighbours and the community as well. When we flip through the newspapers or surfing the internet, we often can read the news about human killed by exotic pets. For example, “An animal tamer was mauled to death during a live show at the circus in front of audience by a lion”, “Zoo keeper and tourist attacked and killed by tiger at zoo in China”. As we see, exotic animals are very dangerous because they have the risk to kill or seriously injure a human, they will attack human at any time and anywhere even they have been tamed and