Comments on: 15 unusual pets that could be yours [PICS]

By: SkiddlyyDiddly

SkiddlyyDiddly — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:31:00 +0000

Me Too I Really Want A Hedge Hog

By: Marysawolf

Marysawolf — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:30:00 +0000

I Want A Hedge Hogg Tooo

By: Sealion67

Sealion67 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:03:00 +0000

Can you really have a hippo?

By: Sealion67

Sealion67 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:03:00 +0000

Can you really have a hippo?

By: Sealion67

Sealion67 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:03:00 +0000

Can you really have a hippo?

By: pets blog

pets blog — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:16:01 +0000

hi Friend,I thought you post Photo Essay: 15 Unusual Pets That Could Be Yours is very useful.

By: EvaSandoval

EvaSandoval — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:38:41 +0000

Daniel, really fun photo essay! I want a hedgehog, but I *need* a sugar glider.

@Nick – You said “Cambrian” – a word I haven’t heard since my gorgeous Paleoanthropology undergrad. My night is made.

By: Nev

Nev — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:16:20 +0000

Personally ,this second sentence I quote of yours is as mistaken as is the headline,Daniel.(The point of this essay is just a fun way to show that some people have successfully adopted unusual animals as their pets. In any way we are promoting illegal trade of exotic animals of course.)I’m sure you really meant you were not promoting….In any we are promoting…??
The headline says it all also, you need to have unusual exotic pets.And this essay is sending that message.
Exotic pets belong in their exotic locations.
Too often the reality is that owners aquire a python,a gator, a baboon etc as a baby,but as it grows it becomes too much for the owner.
I know of one guy got a young python as a pet.It got out of it’s cage, and was never found in the apartment.It was thought to have hidden up under the lounger.The apartment changed hands shortly after.Florida has a problem in the wild with pythons and nile monitors dumped presumably by their owners.
Insects should never be transported from one country to another,they often carry undesirable mites ,or viruses.Africa’s wild dogs and other wildlife suffer from diseases transmitted from introduced animals-the pets people have brought into that continent.
It is sad to see this essay particularly with it’s heading on a website that does a very good job of raising traveller awareness on a host of issues.

By: joshua johnson

joshua johnson — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:02:46 +0000

Ever since I had a gray squirrel as a pet ( something i wouldn’t recommend in a Seattle apt!) I have always wanted to have a sugar glider. Everything I loved about a squirrel without the profuse blood loss…but that Hedgehog is pretty darn cute… Oh no, my cat is getting jealous!

By: nev

nev — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:33:02 +0000

”Agree that the trade in endangered wildlife to satisfy the demand for exotic pets is not cool, and not something we’d want to promote. ”
But by the very nature of this essay promoting exotic pets, are you not sending a message that the more exotic a pet you have the more cool it is?Perhaps promoting even in just a small way that it’s OK to raid wildlife just to have some sort of status symbol?
So it’s not the fact that an animal is endangered, but the subtle encouragement that you gotta have something unusual as a pet.That gator deserves to be left in the wild.That bearded lizard also.And the encouragement to spread insects around from one country to another has got to be questioned.
I have to admit to sadness at seeing this sort of essay on this site.A site that does a lot to promote the thinking, aware traveller.
I do a lot to promote conservation awareness but this essay promoting exotic pets leaves me really disapointed.