EXOTIC ANIMALS AS PETSAnd why we shouldn’t have them By Madi Schulz

Slain animals after the Zanesville massacre

3 Main Points

1. Promotes Illegal Trade of Wild Animals

2. Most normal people can’t take care of these animals properly

3. Owning an exotic pet can be very

Peter Getz, 32, before he was killed by a liger while he went in during feeding

“After decades of being an exotic-pet owner, Harrison went to Africa... Harrison gazed

upon these wild animals, and he says it was as if his eyes had been blistered shut and

were suddenly opened as he witnessed these mammals moving in such profound

harmony with their environment that you could hear it: a rhythm, a pulse, a roar. This,

Harrison suddenly realized, was how wild animals are supposed to live.” –National

geographic, April 2014

SOURCES: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, BIG CAT RESCUE, PETA, ABC NEWS, WORLD WILDLIFE FUND