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Subject: Would you like to have a new pet?
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/05/07 at 6:06 am
From The Times
Pet owners can take a walk on wild side
They are unlikely house companions but all manner of spiky, prickly and fearsome creatures are now officially loveable. Licences are no longer required to own a sloth, emu, racoon or squirrel monkey.
In a shake-up of the dangerous-animal laws 33 species are now considered sufficiently harmless to be kept as a pet. Children who were once content to play with a puppy or hamster may now yearn for a North American porcupine, a mangrove snake or even a Brazilian wolf spider.
Other exotic beasts that may be stocked by pet shops in future include woolly lemurs, tamarins, coatis and little coatimundis. The changes will save owners between £100 and £1,000 a year in licence fees charged by local authorities for any animal, bird or reptile listed under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976.
Subject: Re: Would you like to have a new pet?
Written By: La Roche on 10/05/07 at 11:41 am
From The Times
Pet owners can take a walk on wild side
They are unlikely house companions but all manner of spiky, prickly and fearsome creatures are now officially loveable. Licences are no longer required to own a sloth, emu, racoon or squirrel monkey.
In a shake-up of the dangerous-animal laws 33 species are now considered sufficiently harmless to be kept as a pet. Children who were once content to play with a puppy or hamster may now yearn for a North American porcupine, a mangrove snake or even a Brazilian wolf spider.
Other exotic beasts that may be stocked by pet shops in future include woolly lemurs, tamarins, coatis and little coatimundis. The changes will save owners between £100 and £1,000 a year in licence fees charged by local authorities for any animal, bird or reptile listed under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976.
Huh, Mangrove snakes are actually venemous.
Subject: Re: Would you like to have a new pet?
Written By: Marian on 10/05/07 at 12:37 pm
From The Times
Pet owners can take a walk on wild side
They are unlikely house companions but all manner of spiky, prickly and fearsome creatures are now officially loveable. Licences are no longer required to own a sloth, emu, racoon or squirrel monkey.
In a shake-up of the dangerous-animal laws 33 species are now considered sufficiently harmless to be kept as a pet. Children who were once content to play with a puppy or hamster may now yearn for a North American porcupine, a mangrove snake or even a Brazilian wolf spider.
Other exotic beasts that may be stocked by pet shops in future include woolly lemurs, tamarins, coatis and little coatimundis. The changes will save owners between £100 and £1,000 a year in licence fees charged by local authorities for any animal, bird or reptile listed under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976.
Raccoons will visit you for free where i live.So will squirrels and california grey foxes,as well as coyotes sometimes! ;)
Subject: Re: Would you like to have a new pet?
Written By: Howard on 10/05/07 at 3:59 pm
Raccoons will visit you for free where i live.So will squirrels and california grey foxes,as well as coyotes sometimes! ;)
And don't forget pigeons and seagulls.
Subject: Re: Would you like to have a new pet?
Written By: NbC on 10/05/07 at 8:54 pm
The sad part is that many of these exotic animals that are being kept as pets will suffer due to lack of knowledge of the pet owner. Unlike dogs and cats, these animals require special care, food and housing which most probably are unaware of. Or the pet owners soon discover that these cute adorable animals will eventually bite the hand that feeds them...they are wild afterall.