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Exotic Pet Legal Issues

When looking for a pet think of how muchDo you hope to have a pet that likes to
time and dedication you have for walkingbe around people or can your ideal pet
it, feeding it, and all the otherhide away when guests come around? Some
responsibilities that come along withpets live indoors all the time while
owning a pet. If you don't want to beothers can spend a lot of time outside.
involved in all of the responsibilitiesWhich do you prefer?
being a pet owner entails then you- The most frequently kept wild creature
should reconsider buying a pet to haulin the US is the tiger. About 10% of
along with you on outings just to make5,000 to 7,000 tigers are kepts in tiger
you look cool.sanctuaries and zoos. Some of them live
Exotic Pet Legal Issuesin traveling shows with the troupe,
Laws not only apply to human beings,circuses and big cat rescues for
there are also laws binding to animals.entertainment. Some people even tame
We have the animal welfare law asthem and make them their pets so they
represented by PAWS and PETA. There'sstay in their owners' backyard.
also the law regarding exotic pets.- Tigers actually kill people and nine
However, there is a variety frompeople have died in the last nine years.
city-to-city. A law in one city may notEvery year, studies show that almost a
apply to another state. If you own an100,000 people are in danger of
exotic pet, check first with yourcontacting the salmonella infection
nearest locality about the restrictionswhich comes from reptiles. The US Food
in owning them. Where would you getand Drug Administration didn't allow the
exotic pets for sale?sales and import of turtles smaller than
There are restrictions in exotic pet4 inches.
laws because the animal must beStudies also show that the businesses of
protected even more when they arewild and exotic animals that are
separated from their natural habitat.eventually tamed are estimated to be
Also, there is a possibility that theworth $15 billion each year. Wild animal
owner who adopts the exotic creature maytrade is worth billions of dollars. One
not be able to provide the right home,fourth of wild animal trade is illegal.
diet and care to the owner.This is the poaching of elephants and
Another reason is that since thesetigers. It's disturbing to find out that
animals can be sold to the state's zoo -the second moneymaker on the black
capturing and smuggling of exoticmarket, a close second after trading
creatures are rampant in an area wheredrugs and weapons, is the illegal trade
there is an exotic creature. It's alsoof exotic animals.
better to think of your neighbors.That is why the legislatures not only
There's no knowing what could happen ifconsiders safety of human beings, they
you have a wild animal in your backyard.also find the time to create laws to
What if it escapes? If it does, it couldprotect exotic animals. As mentioned
create great alarm to the public.earlier, animals, be it the tamed or the
For example, look at these previouswild, deserve to have rights, just like
studies:us humans.
- In Arizona, there is a dealer who wasSome pets are stolen. A pet thief may
able to sell tigers from a minimum $900snatch Fifi or Fido in hopes of getting
to a maximum $7000. The price depends ona reward for its return, or to use in
the color of the tiger, as well as thedog fights (even small or gentle dogs
gender. A young chimp has the going rateare susceptible - they can be used as
of $50,000."bait"), or for use in cult rituals.



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