Exotic Pets: Freedom, Privilege, or Risk?

When God created the world, he created animals. trees and everything in the world. And then, he created mankind and put him in charge of everything on this earth. And added that we are at liberty of using whatever is on earth to our benefit.

God created man in his own imagine and as obvious as it is, humans rule the world today. We are in charge of everything on earth, and what we do to our earth has effects on us, both good and bad. Let’s take a look at climate change, it is as the effect of our own actions, how we treat our environment and what we subject our environment to. What we are experiencing isn’t by magic and we know that.

Speaking of animals, animals have been with us on this earth as long as I can remember. We have wild animals and tame animals. And depending on where the animal falls between these two categories, it will determine the location of the animal with respect to its habitat. We all know there are specific animals anyone is free to have as their pets, live with and take care of and these animals include dogs, cats and the likes. And then, there’s those animals which are meant for the wild. These animals aren’t see mingling with humans because they aren’t meant to. Getting into contact with an animal like a lion ends in either one of two ways. It’s either the human comes out alive or the human finds a way of bringing the lion down. Wild animals aren’t meant to be played with.

Regardless of their habitat, human have still found a way to see most of these animals we read of and see on Tv all the time. We have people whose job is to go into the world with the best of lenses to capture these animals and their live styles for us humans to also see. And we even whet as far as capturing some of these animals from their natural habitats to zoos so that humans can visit and also see them in real. All these think are enough ways through which we can see such wild animals.

I’ve actually never thought of having a wild animal as a pet because why would I? But there are people who have had such thoughts and even gone ahead to have such animals in their homes. How it ends, I don’t really know. But what I do know is that, you can never make a wild animal tame. You can raise it in your home as your pet and all of that, but don’t ever forget it’s a wild animals. They are meant for the wild, and unless you’re living in a jungle, you’re most likely to end up as light soup in your ‘pets’ belly one day.

Feeding such animals isn’t an easy task. They feed on live animals and fresh meat. You’d have to be some level of rich to even afford to take care of such animals. I’d strongly advise against such hobbies but he, people would do whatever they want to do at the end of the day. Just make sure you don’t end up as your pets lunch one day.
Stay safe!

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