I “stumbled upon” this video today, and it provoked me to thinking…
I wanted to present it to you and find out what you collectively thought about this issue, being Exotic Animal Lovers yourselves!
Enjoy!
I hope today’s installment of Exotic Animal Lover was thought provoking! Until next time…
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Kimberly Edwards 
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Yes, they are wild animals…Can we live together? Absolutely, we’ve been since the beginning of time…We have the responsibility as the “higher life form”, so to speak as it is said, to protect, care for and ensure these creatures live on! It would be a sad day when there are no animals…In fact, we won’t be around either people!
If you haven’t already, check out the information about how I want to start an Exotic Animal Refuge:
http://ExoticAnimalLover.com/?page_id=159
Thanks for all of your readership, encouragement and friendship on this blog!
Kimberly Edwards
ExoticAnimalLover.com
This is a great idea, but in the interests of furtherance and maintenance of keepers’ knowledge and abilities, the welfare and protection of the animals and of public safety, I think that premises and working practices should be inspected and licensed by a recognised and authoritative animal protection society.
I owned an Artic Fox once when I was much younger. I had to have a registration from MI’s DNR, an ownership paper from the breeder, and had to provide these papers each time I had Dusty treated at the Vets. Couldn’t get Rabies shots, he hadn’t been domesticated and there was a problem with Rabies and non generational domestication, had to feed him a special large cat diet. The Vet got it for me from a zoo. He slept days, chorked like a cross between a crow and a sea gull at nights. I forgot to ask if they were nocturnal. Dusty was never a threat. I lost him one night when he was smarter than I and got away and ran. I searched for days, but he was probably sleeping. I later learned from my Vet he knew a wildlife sanctuary that took him in and would I be interested in giving up my papers. In stead of fighting to get him back I thought he might be better off with people that had more knowledge. Whats the moral to this story? I think people are the only chance many of these animals have to survive people. I don’t think exotic animals are for everyone that wants one. We should have an apprentice program for people wanting to get exotics into their lives. Not just for the animals, but for the people caring for them and the community surrounding them to embrace their system. Work at a refuge, volunteer with the elephants. Do more than homework, work, shovel poop, dodge urine, get nuzzled by a cat, get scared and learn how to handle the situation. Graduate from your apprentice program and start your own with working knowledge. Before Tony died, my husband wanted to start a refuge for unwanted horses in AZ. Because of the anti slaughter laws that is becoming a problem. We had 14 horses of our own and vet lists as long as both arms and maybe a leg. I think there is a place for this and I know there is a need for this. To prevent injuries we need good mentors just like I did when I learn to be a manicurist. The licensing laws in MI are stiffer to do “Nails”, than to keep a pet. Go figure. Susan
These beautiful animals are so precious that we should encourage any form of conservation providing the keepers are knowledgeable, qualified and willing to be licensed in some fashion, to care for the particular animals of their choice, and have sufficient space and resources to provide a natural type habitat for them and to keep them healthy and safe. It takes a great degree of love and dedication to accept such responsibility for any animal , and much more of the same for exotic or endangered species, because of their special needs. Show your love and support for the special individuals who are willing and happy to give, give, give to their choice of special animals, be they domestic, exotic or endangered – healthy or ill. MORALLY WE ALL THE KEEPERS AND PROTECTORS. Let us do whatever we need to do to prevent extinction of these animal gems and ensure that our future generations get to enjoy them too.
If people meet certain criteria to handle wild animals, then, yes.