Tickling Slow Loris

video by Dmitry Sergeyev

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• slow
• loris

[rugby543211]

People who are saying this animal is not being mistreated are missing the point. The pet trade that this animal was bought from is leading the species to extinction. To stop the Loris's venomous bite, they literally tear out it's teeth, often resulting in the primates death. In captivity owners tend to feed the loris an unhealthy, unnatural diet. This video makes people want a loris, it is therefore encouraging the extinction of this magnificent animal.

bbc iplayer - Jungle Gremlins of Java

[IaniTheCat]

People should not buy ANY sort of exotic pets, buying these pets is not only cruel because the animals are taken away from their natural habitat, but it fuels a really horrible black market in which these animals are treated really really badly; If you like these adorable animals DO NOT BUY THEM and help to stop the illegal pet trades!!!! WE are already damaging the planet enough and putting many species at risk of extinction without people buying wild animals as pets just because they are cute

[DRDFOX]

@JPG126 @JPG126 You may have a good point that people are willing to comment on some issues and not others they should, but that doesn't justify delighting in something that is wrong or dismissing it as trivial (which is what you did). Making a point about human exploitation and slave labour is as puersuasive as arguing that the police shouldn't waste time on domestic violence when there are murderers out there.

[0249]

The price it pays just to be tickled by humans that think it's "cute". It would bite the shit out of them if it still had teeth.

[JPG126]

@Happyhippydad but rather that people shouldnt comment on this video and make out as if they have taken it upon themselves to save the world, when it actual fact theyre probably sat at the computer eating food from battery animals, wearing clothes made by slave labour in Asia and wearing cosmetics that were tested on animals,

[JPG126]

@Happyhippydad Lots of people might do, but I bet that these keyboard activists are not included in their number. If you're telling me that people who watch this video will move to one of the few places in the world where buying these animals as pets is legal (such as Russia, where this video originates) then Im sorry but I find that to be a stupid reason for taking these videos off youtube. My argument is not about whether the trade of endangered animals is wrong or not (clearly it is)..

[mikefoyemail]

Very cute but definitely not a pet! That animal probably went through some major shit to get tickled. Teeth ripped out, crammed into boxes with other loris' (some of those probably dead). They look better in the wild than at someone's house.

[DansarJensen]

Please google "Jungle Gremlins of Java" if you think you want one of these as a pet. The animals are illegally caught in Indonesia and other countries for the pet trade. They are treated inhumanely - teeth ripped out, kept in airless boxes which are thrown about as if they are nothing more than stones, & then sold as 'pets' because they are cute. Some 'exotic' animals don't have to have their teeth ripped out to be sold as pets, these do. The extractions cause infections and sometimes death.

[Happyhippydad]

@SpooksOneske Perhaps you should ask yourself why it happens everytime? You haven't quite grasped it yet have you. Pointless explaining it to you I think, but keep trying I think you'll get there..

[Happyhippydad]

@ItsMaggoo I'm afraid you are wrong. Hopefully you'll work out why..

[Edmond137]

The DoDo was cute ?

[Happyhippydad]

@JPG126 I don't usually respond to any comments on the computer but once in a while something really makes you angry like this comment.. 'It's a cute animal getting a bit of a tickle'. This shows absolutely no foresight or understanding of the larger picture and what 'a bit of a tickle' can lead to, i.e to be seen as pets and then exploitation and extinction. Lots of people do 'leave their computer' and either actively help animals in danger or donate money. I wonder what you do?