Roaring Posters: Exotic cats, Chimpanzees, Orangutan, Birds

In response to a number of local, state and federal legislators introducing bills to ban or curb private ownership of exotic animals in the name of public safety, REXANO (Responsible Exotic Animal Ownership) has been organized to refute claims that these animals are dangerous to the general public by offering a free web resource designed to give tools and statistics based research material to private owners of exotics to fight unfair legislation.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• lion
• tiger
• animal
• rights
• conservation
• pet
• public
• safety
• exotic
• animals
• big
• cat

[AMWYESHUASAVESAMW]

Wild animals belong in the wild. It is CRUEL to force them to live in an unnatural environment and expect them to be content. I HOPE IT BECOMES ILLEGAL TO CAGE/KEEP WILD ANIMALS.

[REXANOEXOTICS]

Saw your videos of your birdCan you spell hypocrite?

[allysia02]

the animals are forced into it. Dogs and Cats have been domesticated for yrs and depend on us so its not the same thing. A chimpanzee as a pet is ridiculous no one could ever provide them with the complex social and pyhsical needs that he would have in the wild. No one NEEDS to own one, ppl just WANT to own one and that is selfish.

[targetoic]

Hmm, you have your own pets, rats and a python. Yet you disapprove of others having their own exotic pets, isnt that a little hypocritical? Think you might have emergency room syndrome? Youve only been exposed to bad animal owners, so they all must be bad. Or is it the superiority complex? Where you are the only one that knows what is right in the caring of animals.

[fredfinizzi]

@AMWYESHUASAVESAMW I agree....i also think that these 'owners' should have to live in the cages with their pets since they are telling us how well they take care of their animals and that the animals are so much better off in captivity..... sigh.......people suck

[Armandocoolio]

@kipluck Also its not fair to the animal thats used to hunting, running for miles to just being in a enclosure. No matter how big they arent half as happy as they would in the wild. Also small exotics like suggies,hedgehogs,STO have proven not to be danger to you or public and good in captivity.

[kipluck]

@Armandocoolio I disagree. As a fellow glider owner, I believe in standing up for the rights of others who have different, perhaps more challenging animals than myself. I would dare say that animals like big cats, primates, etc, are a bad idea for MOST pet owners... but not all. I mean, should *I* have a tiger? NO. I don't have the expertise. But I would say there are many for whom a sugar glider is a bad pet, too. The thing is, the animal rights guys do not differentiate. UNITED we stand.

[Armandocoolio]

I own an exotic animal (sugar glider) but the difference is he is not a danger to me or any one else. Say Yes to DANGEROUSE exotic animal bands

[Armandocoolio]

@REXANOEXOTICS The difference is a bird isn't dangerouse and have been breed in captivity for years. And chimps and lions are wild dangerouse animals.

[Fleefles]

Animal Rights crazies have this idea that humans are some sort of species from another planet, so everything we do is unnatural, and that living in the wild is like a Disney movie where everyone sings and plays in the sunshine all day.

If I were an animal, I'd rather be a well taken care of pet than live in the wild, where I'm more likely to die before I reach my first birthday by painful diseases, injury, starvation or being eaten alive.

[AmyinOH]

No wonder I don't spend much time on comments- the self righteous elitist attitude of an animal rights activist- unless of course it is your choice of 'whatever'. No, I have plenty of children in my life- I just hope they can live in a world WITH animals rather than without.

[ubar99]

if wild animals belong in the wild,where do people belong were we not given dominion over the creeping things of the earth[animals] with what measure we measure it will be meted out...life is sacred..if i obtain an 'exotic' captive born animal,love it because it is a special love i feel and wish to develope in knowledge and caring,dont think that is showing off only expressing my free will and accomodating a living creature for mutual advantage...where have i done wrong or violated natures laws?

[timbalionguy]

Just what is the wild? Only humans understand the concept of 'wild', animals do not. Properly cared for, these 'wild' animals make excellent companions for the properly equipped caretaker. They bond with people far more strongly than our domesticated pets. Cats especially, adapt very well to living in captivity. And besides this, the keeping of many of these animals in captivity is the only long-term hope they have for survival.