Monday, March 28, 2011
People Love Animals
Exotic pets could be a psychological thing for people. Some people get satisfaction from owning something that not many others have. Others like feeling like they're giving the animal a better life than the wild could provide. Unfortunately, keeping these animals as a possession only hinders their species survival and creates a false atmosphere around them. Living in a nice house with humans isn't the natural habitat for wild creatures. If they ever get loose or get released, they won't know how to survive.
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I agree that it could be a psychological thing. In today's society people want what others don't. They're always looking for the next big thing and, unfortunately, animals come into this. I have a friend who wants a lion... Obviously she does not have the funds, space, or equipment to raise a lion, but if she did, I'm sure she would try her hardest to get her hands on a lion. She is one of those people that, in her mind, is in constant competition with everyone else. She has to have the new whatever-it-may-be and I believe that many people in America share this view.
ReplyDeleteI can agree with you that keeping them in possession of a house will decrease their survival. But at the same time most people who own exotic pets are fairly wealthy, the only near exotic pet i've ever owned was an anaconda that I had when I was a young lad. Obviously at some point it was too large for containment inside my house so for a while I made it stay outside and around the house. And it worked out well enough during the warmer seasons since I have plenty of acreage for him to be in a decent habitat. But what you need to explore is if some of the more wealthy exotic pet owners actually build a habitat for their pets to live in. At the same time, all animals, every one of them has at some point not been domesticated, (i.e. dogs, cats, birds etc etc.) but now that we've had them domesticated for so long, no one cares and we just see it as it is. Clearly domesticating a lion would be harder then just a small cat, but some people do do it and in my opinion it's not really anyones place to tell another person what they can or cannot own. But you can create certain guidelines as part of an ownership of pets like that (like a proper habitat).
ReplyDeleteI've always wanted to raise a baby lion and a piglet but I didn't know where to get them and I couldn't afford to buy them. Problems with owning an exotic pet is that their dietary needs of some exotics may be more tricky to accommodate, and may be more costly. Before getting an exotic pet, make sure you know why you want one, a pet is not a show piece to make you look cool, or popular, and should never be used for that purpose.
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