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Is there some online resource to contact exotic pet breeders?
I don’t need your sob stories, or why its against the law. That doesn’t answer my question, you can let me make my own decisions in life thanks.
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That’s animal abuse you shouldn’t do that they belong in their homes and in their natural habitats not in someone’s house. Please don’t make an animal miserable like that let them live happy free lives. How would u feel if someone kidnapped u from ur house and stuck u in some place you have never been before and forced you to live by their rules and standards which you have never lived by before?
you cant in the united states without a license and for sure no kangaroo
There is no way to answer that question without knowing where you live and exactly which animals you want to buy.
As for the rest, it has very little to do with your right to “make my own decisions in life” – but a lot with the rights of other animals to have decent lives. Buying an exotic animal as though it’s a car denies an animal this basic right.
As for keeping monkeys, it’s illegal in more and more states and countries around the world, and for good reason. Monkeys are wild animals – they have not been domesticated like cats or dogs – and they have certain instincts that will always arise, no matter how close you think you are with your pet. Once your monkey approaches adulthood, it will most likely attack you or someone you love – and even small monkeys can do serious damage. And then the monkey will have to live in a cage, alone, for the remaining decades of its life (some monkeys can live into their 50s!).
Few monkey owners don’t love their pet in some way. But this “love”, and the desire to spend time with such a truly amazing animal, seems to blind people to the fact that they are causing a lot of suffering. I have been working with rescued ex-pet monkeys for many years, and I have still never seen a case where the owner didn’t “care” about the monkey in their own way. But I have also never seen a case where the monkey wasn’t traumatized or somehow damaged by this very same “love” (often the favorite monkeys are the worst-off!)! Part of the problem is that they are by nature social animals, and life without others of their own kind is very frustrating and lonely.
Infant monkeys are removed from their mothers way before the period of maternal dependency is finished, so that they can be sold as pets. Think about how traumatic this is! Do you want to be responsible for that happening to any thinking, feeling creature, so that you can have an interesting pet? Human care-taking, no matter how carefully or thoughtfully done, will not do much good for the baby monkey. It’s been proven repeatedly that maternal deprivation, and isolation from others of their kind, has really negative effects on monkeys. It affects their physical growth, their psychological growth – it even affects brain development! The result is that you get permanently and severely damaged individuals – a lot like those poor children raised in orphanages in Romania that there was a big expose about a few years back. But, because monkeys are not domesticated animals and most pet owners really do not have much understanding of what a “normal” monkey should look like and act like, these problems often go undetected. I can’t even tell you how many owners, when handing their monkeys over to rescue centers, will say that the monkey is “fine” and its behavior is “normal” when the fact is, the poor thing is sick, emaciated or obese, fearful, distressed, depressed and in many cases has been performing all sorts of abnormal behaviors on a routine basis – basically a sign of severe mental illness.
With nothing but the best of intentions, a lot of physical damage gets done, too. Owners give their monkeys “treats”, or try to do the right thing and feed their monkeys diets high in fruit – the monkey winds up with major dental problems and diabetes. The monkey starts growing up, and acting a little unpredictable – and winds up a)relegated to a small cage – pretty much any cage is small when you think about the miles and miles they range in the wild every day; b)drugged, teeth removed or castrated – which leads to massive developmental and social problems; or c)foisted off on the nearest rescue center or zoo, which may well be overcrowded and underfunded already. Please, understand this – an adult pet monkey that interacts with human beings and does not eventually attack someone is not a healthy monkey. Capuchins do not relate to one another in the same way that humans do, and because they are not domesticated animals (this is a measurable biological process), they can not be taught to follow “human” rules without seriously subordinating their true natures.
Chances are, your keeping a monkey as a pet will inspire somebody else to do so – and somebody else, and somebody else. Even if the monkey you get is captive-bred, not all of them are – the fact that people can and do keep them has a real negative effect on wild monkey populations – all of which are threatened with extinction (some of these specifically because of demand for the pet trade).
The trade in pet monkeys causes nothing but suffering. Adopt a domesticated animal in need of a good home if you want to have a pet.