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Post by matt52 on Jul 12, 2015 18:27:36 GMT
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Post by alf1951 on Jul 13, 2015 5:58:08 GMT
So far as I can make out, they are not endangered but I agree - the idea is of buying them (as pets I presume) feels very wrong.
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Post by rowanberry on Jul 13, 2015 8:26:05 GMT
They've got owls, too. How much vetting of buyers do you think they do? Why do people want exotics as pets, anyway? Keeping an animal for its whole life in a cage... I've never understood it.
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Post by Tringa on Jul 13, 2015 9:27:07 GMT
I agree Matt. I seems wrong to keep a native wild animal in a cage (captive breeding schemes for reintroduction excluded), but then I don't understand having any animal as pet that is always confined.
Dave
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Post by alf1951 on Jul 14, 2015 5:32:18 GMT
According to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the exotic pet trade is a multi-billion dollar industry, second only to drugs and weapons on the black market. It's a $15 billion dollar business in the United States alone, with breeders and dealers selling animals over the Internet or in trade magazines. (animalplanet.com) But why keep pets at all - "before we love pets so much we should love (or at least respect) our own species more" read "Petishism" by Kathleen Szasz Alf
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Post by NellyDee on Jul 31, 2015 8:45:51 GMT
I agree and these people who buy them quite often just 'throw' them out when they have lost interest or cannot deal with looking after them.
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