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Should people be allowed to keep exotic animals as pets like chimpanzees…
Should people be allowed to keep exotic animals as pets like chimpanzees or tigers?
History and Backround
The 20th-century is when exotic pets further grew in popularity, and millions started being traded across the globe.
While keeping birds in captivity for food has been common throughout history, records show that people in Egypt were keeping birds for more than just food in 4000 BC.
From 1980 to1990 there was an explosion in the popularity of reptiles as pets and in their trade in the West.
Many Exotic animals die when being shipped or tranported before they even reach their destination.
Animals are not pets; they belong in their natural habitats.
Specialized info
The lack of legal repercussions for the inhumane treatment of exotic pets has helped create an industry in which “animal suffering, abuse, and the human greed behind it constitutes” - Clifford Warwick
Individuals possessing exotic animals often attempt to change the nature of the animal rather than the nature of the care provided.
Thesis Statement
People should not be allowed to keep exotic animals because the animals don't get their needs met, abuse, the animal suffers physical and mental problems.
Argument 1: They dont get their needs met.
These animals require special housing, diet, care and maintenance that the average person cannot provide.
When in the hands of the owner, many animals suffer or die.
Individuals possessing exotic animals often attempt to change the nature of the animal rather than the nature of the care provided.
Argument 3: Physical and Mental problems.
Captivity limits their natural beaviour and puts their mental and physical well being at risk.
Insufficient captive environments cause chronic stress and poor physical health.
If the owner cannot provide the right food, then the animal can face stress and frustration which can also lead to a decline in their physical in ental health leading to, the development of physical disease or abnormal, zoochotic behaviours.
Argument 2: Animal Abuse
Before the owner even gets the animal, they get captured by cruel traps, snares, or tranquilizer darts, then they get transported in cramped unsanitary conditions withe no food, water and often even lack of ventilization access.
Many exotic animal caretakers try to change the nature of the animal rather than taking care of it.
People do things such as chaining, beating “into submission,” or even painful mutilations, such as declawing and tooth removal.