>Google if animal is a good pet>Results say soem shit like "No it's a wild animal and does not make a good." And so on and so on>Videos I see online with people keekping the animals as pets say otherwiseI'm convinced theirs just some kind of scheme going on here. I get that the average person probably can't keep most animals as pets but if you put in the effort there's no reason it shouldn't be possible. Of course excluding money and ludicrous animals like Gorillas, Chimps and lions.
>>4891775You do have a point. Of course there are differences in temperament between species as well as among individual animals within species, but if it weren't possible to train or domesticate wild animals then we wouldn't have dogs, cats, pigs, ferrets, cows, goats, or horses. The main differences between them and many non-domesticated species is that there often weren't many practical uses for the latter. For example, most seals or sea lions probably have the temperament to be domesticated since they take well to humans and can be trained, but there wasn't any obvious practical use for domesticated seals or sea lions so it never happened.
by normie standards, a dog smart enough to breathe without being told to is a bad pet, and the only thing keeping cats around is the ability to abandon them when they get hard to care for.
>>4891775>"No it's a wild animal and does not make a good."I've felt like this is to prevent interest as to not encourage the illegal pet trade. Also yeah, the average person shouldn't have a dog let alone an otter or owl
>>4891838Both these things are spot on
>>4891775I like it.
>>4891775I've also looked into otters and here's what I vaguely remember:otters mark their territory by patting crap with their tails on the perimeterthey need a bigger pond for recreationthey socialize with humans only somewhat harder than your average household animal, but way less if you get several of themthey have stink glands that can be removed the same way as with ferretsyou'll have a very hard time finding a vet that can do more than antibiotics and dewormer
>>4891865>>4891775Little known: sea otters don't stink or mark their territory with crap like other otter species do. Even their poop is odorless. They do, however, eat a lot - about 25% of their body weight every day - and they have to be fed fresh seafood. Zoos/aquariums that keep them have to spend over $20,000 per sea otter each year on their food alone.OTOH, look how cute and trainable they are:https://youtu.be/W4_IJv2zuvQ?si=Lt-hJ8iV9gy3ltZY&t=81
The issue with having wild animals as house pets is that they can get very temperamental.Everything is fine for a year, two years, maybe ten. Then bam, it just randomly decides to sperg out and now you're severely injured.This is less common with domesticated animals, but still happens with them too.
>>4891874Remember this South African guy who got killed by his pet hippo he adopted when it was a calf.
>>4891775>I'm convinced theirs just some kind of scheme going on hereYou’re absolutely correct. “Exotic pets can’t be kept ethically” and “Exotic animals aren’t pets” blah blah are retarded statements that make no sense, and it makes these same people mald endlessly to see people post content that disproves their claims. This is why they’re trying to ban exotic pet videos from social media. They claim it’s to “stop animal abuse”, but really it’s because they don’t want people to realize exotic animals like otters, owls, and foxes are surprisingly commonly kept pets, because the narrative they’ve had an iron grip on that “only experts and licensed facilities can care for X animal” starts to crumble.
>>4891890Hippos are the pitbulls of semi aquatic mammals
>>4891935It's the naturalistic fallacy along with a healthy dose of "anything thats fun is bad" and generic hippie nature worship>their life in the wild is natural, so it must be better than HUMAN ENSLAVEMENT!>their life in the wild: brutalized by conspecifics for eating out of turn, brutalized by other species for being on the wrong side of the piss line to too close to the food they've claimed, parasitized, sickened, and eaten alive by crows as they lay dying assuming a larger animal doesn't finish them off slightly faster (nothing, and i mean nothing, in nature makes sure its prey is dead - the legendary "honorable killers" that are big cats will settle for paralysis or sufficient injury to induce shock)>their human enslavement: literally given whatever they ask for at the cost of being stuck in some sort of enclosure for 6 hours when people aren't home
>>4891953>implying crocodiles are fantastic pets
The first step to becoming an exotic pet owner is ignoring everyone's advice and warnings
posting in poaching mafia thread
>>4891868The otter in that video is more well-behaved than most pets at the vet
>>4891935>>4891960Not being a tree hugger doesn't change the fact that foxes want to use everything they see as their bathroom
>>4891868If I were a billionaire I would build sea otter sanctuaries in every city and increase their range to include the Atlantic coast
>>4891775You should need a license to own a pet, even a cat or dog.
>>4891890Not only this, but pet raccoons hurt people a lot. Pet otters are actually really dangerous.About only wild animal you're pretty safe from is an opossum, but they only live like 3 years.
>we should let retards have any kind of animal they wantVery interesting idea OP, really gotta think about that.
>>4892441OP admits that the average person isn't competent enough to own most animals, but why prevent those who have the knowledge and resources to properly care for them?
>>4891966They're indispensable aides if you're a true sicko with literal skeletons in your closet.
the people with videos keeping them as pets are making money, they don't want to make it seem like theyre doing something stupid and irresponsible
>>4893511people who have knowledge and resources can and do care for them. you can already have exotic animals, if you put in the effort. that's to say, prove you have enough suitable space and are competent to do so. most pet owners do not fall into this category, arguably even when it comes your normal household animals.
>>4891966This pet crocodile never attacked or killed the man who saved and cared for him. just sayin:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg2YAnEiLSs
>>4893511>but why prevent those who have the knowledge and resources to properly care for them?and who's going to be the judge of that?
>>4894154what's missing from that is him sufficiently feeding the croc before every performance so that he has a full belly and it enters energy-saving mode
>>4894179>If the animal was hungry it would've eaten you!Guess what a sufficiently hungry human would do lmoa
>>4893511People who have the knowledge and skills to care for those animals work in conservation and don't care about owning them as toys.
>>4895126>You're only good enough to own a Peruvian Blue-tailed Virgin-snapping Minnow-trout if you're willing to work a highly competitive minimum wage jobGenuine joke. You don't need a college education to take care of an animal, sorry.
>>4895358You do need a good deal of experience and training to deal with more complex animals and give them proper care
>>4896905Or you just need a brain capable of empathy. Sorry non-Whites, you don't qualify.
>>4896929they're animals and not cute wittle babies to carry around in your handbag, susan.
>>4896929This is how you get mauled
>>4891890what's the hippo thinking?
>>4898289>im gonna fucking maul this guy later
>>4898337>im gonna fucking maul this guy laterso true!
>>4891890>>4898337>>4898355RIPThe former Army Major said: "Humphrey's like a son to me, he's just like a human. There's a relationship between me and Humphrey and that's what some people don't understand."They think you can only have a relationship with dogs, cats and domestic animals. But I have a relationship with the most dangerous animal in Africa."Maurice was so secure in his pet's company he was even pictured riding on the 1.2 tonne hippo's back.Hippos are believed to kill more people than lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos and buffalos combined.Then, in November 2011, Humphrey turned completely on the man who viewed him as a son.He bit Maurice to death, with the farmer discovered completely submerged in the river where Humphrey had been rescued six years earlier.He had suffered horrific bite marks and terrible injuries.https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/horrific-injuries-farmer-mauled-death-22022594
>>4891935The retarded attitude that exotic pets are just cooler versions of normal pets and nobody wants you to know it, is what leads to shit like the Everglades overflowing with foreign species that fuck over the natives. When braindead morons think that they know better than everyone else and get an exotic pet, 9 times out of 10 they realize after a while that it destroying their house with claws and waste, eating lots of expensive food, being very difficult to train, and generally having more wild behaviors than they want is too much for them. Then they either kill the thing, abandon it somewhere, or send it to an already overwhelmed sanctuary/shelter. This also directly attributes to the progress towards extinction in the wild for these species, many of which are endangered. You and everyone else who wants an exotic animal are almost certainly just selfish idiots who don't think these things through.
>>4899431This doesn't apply to reptilechads. We actually know proper husbandry and take care of our exotic pets just as well as professionals do.
>>4899526Then where did the Everglades pythons and iguanas come from, Anon? Are you telling me their entire populations descended from a handful that escaped during hurricanes?
>>4899588>>4899431Are you retarded? Most of the "invasive" species aren't actually invasive, if I got outside and find a bearded dragon at my local park that doesn't mean it's invasive and for some reason the nigger brained FWC don't understand that and call anything they find out in the wild invasive even Ball Pythons, bearded dragons and leopard geckos. Actually you know what they do know what Invasive is they just use it the wrong definition of it because retards like you gobble it up. Most of the Burmese pythons came from a zoo, the iguanas were imported with goods. Have you seen a baby Iguana? Their the size of a large gecko and live in foliage. If you bring over fruit and wood you're gonna get a few stragglers. They literally live a few miles over in the ocean too in the same climate. No shit their gonna be fine in Florida. Most of the invasive species in Florida are from companies importing thousands of tons of plants, fruit and other things filled with native wildlife. Yes people do release exotic pets, no they shouldn't do this. But to act like the everglades are pet keeps fault is such a leap in logic you'd need to be below mentally retarded.
>>4899737You can cope all you want, I'm not reading all that shit. You know for a fact that shit tons of retards out there who thought of themselves as 'exotic reptile keepers' have picked up a juvenile retic or gator or something because it's badass, and then when it gets fuckhuge they immediately look for a way to make it not their problem anymore. The fact that you sperg'd out so hard tells me that you are somehow taking this personally, and just cannot mentally accept that some fucking brainlets will attempt to get into your niche hobby and fuck things up just like they do for every other niche hobby.
>>4891775the average person is a retard that never before took care of even just a plant and couldn't deal with a domesticated animal like a Labradoodle but thinks that would be so fucking cool try (because they can just give up anyways, right?) taking care of a wild animal.
>>4899379Et tu Humphrey
>>4891775>How to tell if an animal is a good pet:>It's not considered an "exotic pet" or is not a breed of dog bred for centuries to maul things to death in a fighting pit.There.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-9HWtp4SP4
>>4899868Rats are gross
>>4899379>"They think you can only have a relationship with dogs, cats and domestic animals. But I have a relationship with the most dangerous animal in Africa."lol
>>4892441Many people have kept pet chimps without it biting off their face
>>4901480Without biting off their face YET.
>>4893906i genuinely hope this guy gets murdered in prison
>>4891775They won't even let a man own a pet squirrel these days
>>4891775Videos are cherrypicked. Don't believe everything you see on video either.
>>4902311Those cherrypicked videos don't really hide how much otters need to eat.
>>4902336Only sea otters and giant otters have exorbitant appetites. Smaller otters don't eat as much
>>4892007Don't we all?
>>4901480keep roling those dice bro I am sure that you will never hit that hard 8, it cant happen to you because it hasnt happened yet
>excluding ludicrous animals like lions.My aunt had a lion.
>>4891775>No it's a wild animal and does not make a good>How many genders are there? Hm let's see...
>>4903712
Lionesses are big enough for dick and enjoy having sex with human men. They become tamer than housecats when placed with a compassionate lover.Meanwhile d*ggots keep feeding their children to pitbull bitches that would become even more aggressive if they thought they were the alpha female. Explain this logic?
>>4903729Shouldnt you be on one of the many zoophile subreddits, or did you get banned from reddit again? We don’t want you here.
>>4903729Catfags, everyone
>>4892092>increase their range to include the Atlantic coastplz no more invasives
>>4891890That hippo looks so friendly
>>4891890Moo Deng, no!
>>4891775People aren't going to post videos of themselves having a miserable time taking care of a wild animal or getting attacked, dummy.
>>4907951They do all the time, look at floppa channels
>>4907951yes they do
>>4899526remove yourself from life
>>4891775You answered yourself, average person can't take care of a dog properly and those were bred for thousands of years to be better pets than wolves. They absolutely should not be considering an otter.
>>4891775There's been a concerted effort to minimize humanity's attempts at domestication over the last... 50? 100? years. Not sure why, I don't think there's much to it as far as conspiracies go, but there's absolutely no reason why our domestication has been bottlenecked as we expand instead of becoming more granular.
>>4901480>Many people have kept pet chimps without it biting off their faceAnd many people have kept pet chimps until it bit off their faces.
>>4891775You're judging based off of social media, lmao. Try to do some critical thinking. In general, I agree that a lot of animals don't make good pets, and it's not just a good/bad owner issue. However I'm not in favor of government overregulating it; they do not have the resources allocated to put forth good standards nor enforce them, so we have blanket bans on a lot of shit that doesn't need banning (and likely vice versa), and SUPER irregular application of the law.
>>4909407I think virtually all endemic and non-threatened birds are suitable as pets. Like, I can have a canary but it's illegal to keep a chaffinch? Suuure. And if you can keep a macaw you should definitely be able to keep a jackdaw.
>>4891775>Google if opossums are good to keep>first displayed result says no>check source>Terminix
>>4909460I love the theory that virginia possums were domesticated by various native americans. I honestly believe it with how bumbling and unafraid they typically are of people.
>>4909460opossums have one brain cell and they aren't very active creaturesprobably a little more intensive than keeping a guinea pig really
