The danger of domesticating wild exotic pets

Hello, Hive Nation. I trust you are doing great. On this edition of the Hive Learners writing prompt, we take a look at exotic pets. Join me as I share my thoughts on this.

One of the beauties of exotic pets is their wild side, and it is also the dangerous part of them as well.

Man has been able to domesticate animals at various capacities, and it shows our God-given nature of dominance over other creatures. However, there is a place for everything under the heavens, and the reason why some are called domestic is because they can be tamed in the same way wild animals are supposed to be in the wild.

Again, because of our superior nature and quest for knowledge and power, people bring some exotic wildlife into their homes as pets while they are still kids and try to teach them learned behavior, which actually works for a while until the wild side of such pets shows up one day.

We have people who have dedicated their lives to wildlife, and so they stay in the world watching after wildlife, studying them, and researching them, and in doing so, they create a relationship with some of this wildlife, like we see on National Geographic Wild TV. And some wildlife TV shows.

As one who loves animals, sometimes I take my time to watch clips on YouTube about wildlife, and sincerely, the idea of domesticating exotic species is a small one that should be carefully taught about.

In different locations I've seen documentaries of how some persons started raising some wildlife right from when they were babies, and as they grew older, most of those wildlife became the cause of death for their owners, and some of them were quickly noticed.

One of them was a story of a lady who had a pet python, which she started raising when it was a baby. He got to a point that this python refused to eat. The lady was worried, and she called the veterinary doctor to come check the animal.

The doctor came, checked, and solved it; nothing was wrong with the animal, but as time went on, the snake refused to eat, and occasionally it would crawl on the bed of the lady and try to size her up.

After watching the animal closely for a while, it was discovered that the snake was fasting in order to open its tummy to make it large enough for it to swallow its owner, and it was quickly taken away.

In another story I saw that a lady went out to pick up a crocodile and started raising it until it became so big, and she was raising it in the pool behind her house, and occasionally she would take a bath with the crocodile.

One faithful day, she came out to feed the croc, and that day happened to be our last day on Earth. As the crocodile left the food it was supposed to eat, its owner became food before locals could respond. She had already suffered multiple cuts before she was rushed to the hospital, where she died.

Wildlife will always be wildlife. No matter how you try to tame them, you can only tell them for so long before that wild part of them comes out one day.

So why keep exotic pets and spend so much money first acquiring them and then feeding them only for them to either be put away when they become too wild or even become the cause of tragedy for their owners?

But the only way they can be domesticated is by having them in controlled spaces where they will be like a source of tourism instead of letting them run free with the possibility of causing havoc one day.

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