Persuasive Essay On Exotic Animals

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Can you believe that ninety percent of exportedexotic animals die with in a year. Thinking that having an exotic animal as a pet might be cool, but there are many downsides to it. Exotic animals should not be kept as pet because they are dangerous, they can spread diseases.
First being pounced by a pet animals is not what people would prefer. There have been many attacks from exotix household animals. In one incident, a lion trapped a kid in his room and ate several dogs. A Bengal Tiger tore the arm of a four-year-old boy. And in one tragedy a tiger lacerated his owner's three year old grandson.. Since 2000 at least 4 people were tore to pieces by wolf hybrids. For example, a five-year-kid was killed when he attacked by his grandmother’s pet wolf. In another incident a thirteen month old baby boy died, after a wolf hybrid bit him and the Jugular vein. About 3-5 people die yearly from animal attack. That also includes in zoos. And what is shocking is that 3-5 people in America is more than 316 million people in 2013. …show more content…

Thousands of exotx animals come to the U.S each day with very little screening. Just think one those animals could be your pet. More than 650 million exotic animals are brought in the U.S. in the last three years. They can spread diseases that can jump from animal to human, human to human. According to the U.S. Center for DIsease Control and Prevention, at least seventy-five percent of emerging threat in the U.S are found in zootic diseases that jump from animal to human. Since 2000, fifty million people have been infected by zoonotic diseases and 75,000 have died. Monkeypox is just one of the many diseases. Even though no one died, it was an outbreak in 20003. Research traced its origin and discovered that it came from a Gambian rat from

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