Persuasive Essay On Keeping Exotic Animals

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Comfort is very important to everyone, and comfort is one of the greatest aspects of safety. Safety comes from a lot of things such as people in your life, food, your home, and also your pets. You don’t want to feel unsafe from a potentially dangerous animal living in your house, backyard, or your neighbor’s yard. Some animals can be cute and cuddly, but others can pose as a threat, because of their natural behaviors. A wild animal has a home in the wilderness and that is not within your house. Keeping exotic animals as pets could endanger the animal, make a high-risk factor of safety towards humans, and it creates much illegal activity while selling and shipping the animals.
Pet endangerment comes from keeping exotic animals as pets. Every …show more content…

Many people are not aware if they are breaking the laws because laws are not clearly stated and many people don’t know the laws with in the area they live in. The laws in the U.S.A. go from state by state regulations, so while one state completely banns wild animals, other may not have any rules at all (Velez-Mitchell 3). Many of the rules are broken through exportation (Velez-Mitchell 3). It is illegal to export from japan and Russia, causing much illegal activity (Murphy 1). There are only three federal laws about keeping wild and exotic animals (Velez-Mitchell 3). The first one being the ESA the Endangered Species Act, this law says that it is illegal to possess, sell, or buy an endangered species (Velez-Mitchell 3). Though all three of these laws do not regulate private possession (Velez-Mitchell 3). Second being the Public Health Service Act which only allows pet owners to keep these animals for scientific education or exhibition purposes (Velez-Mitchell 3). Lastly the Lacey act allows U.S.A. government to prosecute people with an animal illegally obtained in a foreign country, or another state (Velez-Mitchell 3). Still this does not regulate private possession (Velez-Mitchell 3). It is also illegal to own an animal that naturally lives with the area you live in (Velez-Mitchell 3). For instance if you lived in Washington it is illegal to own a squirrel, for they are natural animal to this region. We need …show more content…

Their argument may be that the trade of shipping and delivering animals ranges from 10-15 billion dollars (Murphy 2). Also they may say it’s an easy way to make money. This may be true, however, when animals are being shipped, it is most likely illegal, which can cause a lot of illegal activity (Velez-Mitchell 3). Also when they take animals from their natural habitats they are diminishing the population of the future wild animals, which can start leading to endangerment or extinction. Before anyone wants to start in this business, they must consider the laws, and how much distress and damage they will be causing for the animals. There are alternatives animals that can be kept as pets instead such as domestic dogs, cats, birds, fish and many more. Many people overlook the extensive risk they are taking by taking an animal captive, out of their home in the wild, and this is the reason extreme numbers of wild animals are dying. If you care anything of the wild animal species, it is unacceptable that we are one taking animals, but then putting them through painful processes, meaning they can never return to the wild. We have to change the ways of our people if we want a

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