wild animals

People have been enchanted by the idea that even the wildest animals can befriend the right person. In reality, keeping a wild animal as a pet often has disastrous results for the animals and the people, yet wild and exotic animals continue to be imported into the US and sold to incompetent owners. While the opposition will argue that exotic pet ownership can provide safe and fulfilling environments for the animals. pet ownership should be banned because home captivity is unhealthy for the animals, it proposes a threat to public safety, and it proposes a threat to public safety. Stronger laws need to be in place to ban the private ownership of exotic animals.
Appropriate care for exotic animals requires considerable expertise, specialized facilities, and lifelong dedication to the animals. Necessary care for exotic animals is rarely looked in to, including proper veterinary care, which can be very difficult since not many veterinarians are trained or have any experience with exotic animals. It is relatively easy to purchase exotic animals through auctions, the internet, as well as in states which have no bans or registries. Many exotic animals are captured in inhumane ways (“Exotic Animals as ‘Pets’ PETA”). Some wild animals, especially babies, are taken straight from their wild lands and shipped to the U.S ("The Dirty Side of the Exotic Animal Pet Trade" ). This is not only traumatic and sometimes deadly for the animals, but also for their species as a whole and for the ecosystems from which they came from("The Dirty Side of the Exotic Animal Pet Trade" ). Although the opposition argues that keeping exotic animals captive will protect animals from becoming extinct, this is one of the reasons that some animals are in jeopardy of becoming extinct (“Exotic Animal Ethics”) . Baby tigers, for example, may be taken straight from their mothers by killing their mothers and taking the cubs. This clearly causes a decline in their population, trauma to the cub, and the