CUTE? You want one? This is a tortured Creature! This is not a Pet!
Loris have been popularized as pets in viral videos on YouTube. Slow lorises have their teeth cut or ripped out (their bite is toxic) for the pet trade, and often die from infection or blood loss caused by this.
Also Deep-rooted beliefs have popularized their use in traditional "medicine". Slow Loris and Lori products are sold in markets in Southeast Asia and smuggled to other countries, such as Japan. STOP THIS!
The teeth are removed because the loris, listed as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, can deliver a toxic bite. Mr Shepherd said: "The creature is then effectively doomed because of infection. Most don't last very long after that."
Poachers steal infant lorises from their parents in the wild to sell at open-air markets in Indonesia, where they are traded for as little as £10.
The export market is most lucrative in Japan, where lorises stolen to order sell for £3,500. The trade is now expanding into the US and Europe, with illegally smuggled lorises reported in the United Kingdom.
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CUTE? You want one? This is a tortured Creature! This is not a Pet!
Loris have been popularized as pets in viral videos on YouTube. Slow lorises have their teeth cut or ripped out (their bite is toxic) for the pet trade, and often die from infection or blood loss caused by this.
Also Deep-rooted beliefs have popularized their use in traditional "medicine". Slow Loris and Lori products are sold in markets in Southeast Asia and smuggled to other countries, such as Japan. STOP THIS!
DrSchoenstein 6 months ago
The teeth are removed because the loris, listed as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, can deliver a toxic bite. Mr Shepherd said: "The creature is then effectively doomed because of infection. Most don't last very long after that."
From the Independent newspaper today
mokeyheff 11 months ago
Poachers steal infant lorises from their parents in the wild to sell at open-air markets in Indonesia, where they are traded for as little as £10.
The export market is most lucrative in Japan, where lorises stolen to order sell for £3,500. The trade is now expanding into the US and Europe, with illegally smuggled lorises reported in the United Kingdom.
mokeyheff 11 months ago
If that is a Loris, then yes, they do bite, and it is poisonous. The chances are high that this one has had it's teeth ripped out........ apparantly
mokeyheff 11 months ago
dose it bite ( i want one it is so cute !! )
FEETEV27 1 year ago
Oh my god! How cute! It looks so sad when you stop tickling it!
Mnemosynex 2 years ago
Its all cute and fun until the thing goes crazy and rips someones face off.
pinworms70 2 years ago
@pinworms70 black humor, I like! :D
aianvcreij 1 year ago
i also want one!
gemofabird1 2 years ago
aww, it looks like it's going to cry because you stopped petting it.
TheMIssingSock 2 years ago
why is it in a house? is this house in madagascar? are you going to put it back in the wild?
wattever333 2 years ago
Its a captive bred pet, not wild caught genius, otherwise they could go to jail.
roran315 2 years ago
what is it its sooo cute, i wish i had a cute pet like that
kaliba8 2 years ago
i want one!
dreaminvasion 2 years ago
Aaaw!
8-)
munchatsaruk 2 years ago
Adorable!
gunmetalgrey888 2 years ago 2
that awesome!
Z3L33 2 years ago 2