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Exactly. It should be illegal for everyone besides accredited organizations to have in possession any exotic animals. Sustainable, captive-bred for generations in which the wild populations are not threatened is fine but these people who have $20,000 parrots captured from the wild, some rare marsupial from Australia on a leash, or some monkey in a diaper as pets are disgusting.
Morons talking about how much they love animals meanwhile you look at the Wikipedia page of the animal and see how the exotic pet trade is making tons of species go extinct. That animal you bought was captured from the rainforest and 2 of its kind died as the 3 were smuggled in suitcases.
Comment by saguarobird at 17/03/2022 at 01:51 UTC
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It's truly awful. Biodiversity is in a steep decline and the price for these animals are high. It is a horrible situation.
Comment by EpilepticMushrooms at 17/03/2022 at 12:29 UTC
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Yep. Literally knew a guy in college who smuggled animals, mostly from Australia cause he has family there. Called himself an 'animal lover'. Like Biiiitch, do you know how *stressed* animals get when you stick them in small, dark holes they may or may not live through, along with the sedative you are possibly feeding them?
The laws on animal smuggling are pretty darn lax and badly enforced, so at that time I thought it wasn't worth my quarter to report him. I still kick myself for it.
He loved bragging about knowing smugglers, how his friends smuggled tiger cubs at a premium price.
I straight up told him tigers are critically endangered and the practice is illegal. He replied 'I didn't know tigers are endangered.'
BULL.
It might please others to learn that during one of the years, he got choked by a classmate, not for the animal thing, but for other reasons. Now he's a bit notorious among the cohort, for that one strangulation event.
Still wish he got worse done to him.
Comment by Dexter321 at 17/03/2022 at 08:33 UTC
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Literally fuck people like you. Tell me the difference in this and a housecat other than our power over it?
Inb4 "its rare, its special" bitch only because you've personally put that value into it