I am an unique pet particular person. They sometimes live to be 10 to 15 years old, so buying a fennec fox is a commitment, like most pets. In the UK, where exotic pet ownership is high, voluntary organizations akin to “SEEPR” (South East Exotic Pet Rescue) soak up unwanted, ailing, or lost unique animals and nurse them back to full health earlier than rehoming them. Some exotic-animal owners spend thousands a yr on fresh meat, for carnivores that dine every day on raw steak, for primates—omnivores with advanced dietary wants—for snakes, which eat rat after rat after rat.

Different smaller exotics like porcupines, genets, sloths, wallabies, kinkajous, tamanduas, and coatimundis require giant caging relative to their sizes and could also be more durable to advertise the nicely-being of below conventional animal care standards. When some hear exotic” they suppose wild and dangerous. So while I agree that unique animals should not be lumped into one class I additionally say that what we name home animals shouldn’t be given a bad rep either.

A breed of domesticated pig originating in Vietnam, the Potbellied Pig is an intelligent and affectionate animal that may make a very good pet for anybody who gives it correct care and a spotlight. As we speak, although, rodents, rabbits, amphibians, birds, reptiles and other animals are established pets, even eligible for pet insurance however they’re nonetheless thought-about to be unique pets.

These ten exotic pets are authorized to personal in lots of locations, a few of them just require a license. After they’d already blamed extinction, unlawful wildlife commerce, animal cruelty and all types of things on “unique pets” as one big, broad brush – then they said that WORSE than all of this, is the “public safety threat”. Many people simply mechanically assume a non-domesticated animal was captured from the wild.

It is because they require devoted individuals who’ve the animal smarts to know their complicated wants. “You own that?” “How are you going to have that as a pet?” “That is dangerous!” “It must be flawed for the animal!” And the ever-so-well-liked and ideology-driven claim: “That animal belongs within the wild!” Properly, all animals actually come from the wild, but that doesn’t imply they can’t be blissful (or happier) in domesticity.