Pros and cons of keeping wild animals as pets 9 Articles

by Rena Sherwood

There are no good benefits to keeping a wild animal as a pet. Doing so negatively effects you, your neighbors, the environment and the animal. Keeping wild animals in zoos and nature preserves is much different from keep...read more

by Holli Ireland

As a teen and young adult, I was blessed with the opportunity to live with and get to know a woman who was a licensed wild life rehabilitator. Because I was already an animal lover myself, I was eager to learn everything s...read more

by Excalibur Snape

I don't think that wild animals should be kept as pets. They were born wild the should remain wild. It should not be up to us to domesticate every animal we come across because we think they are cute.......or that is b...read more

by Christine Cameron

Can Bambi Live Happily In A Fenced In Yard As you drive home from a weekend of camping with your family, you notice a motionless body blocking the road. As you near, the lifeless lump appears to move slightly, and the ...read more

by Natasha Levy

Concrete Jungle turns Jail While the cons out weigh the pros, by far, in relation to keeping to keeping wild animals as pets, animal welfare fanatics may be too quick to judge. With the increasing boom in animal righ...read more

by Rex Trulove

For many people, it is very difficult when they see an interesting or adorable wild animal, to resist the urge to take it home. In some cases, it may be harmful to the animal to do so, or it may be harmful to the person c...read more

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by Patricia Matthews

When I began my 10 year long career at a local veterinary clinic , I was aware of the people who rescued wild animals and tried to keep them as illegal pets. It is easy to judge them by the letter of the law , but I can un...read more

by Gabrielle Keen

Here in New Zealand we have many beautiful and unique native birds. Some of them are endangered. Most familiar to the rest of the world is our national bird, the flightless and nocturnal Kiwi, also the nick name, we New Ze...read more

by Rodney Schwencer

Keeping a wild animal as a pet can be a way to learn about the habits and personality's of the many different ways that they react to being around humans,and how friendly that these animals can get in time. By keeping ...read more