If you have a wild animal house pet you might want to rethink your decision. When you have a wild animal as your pet it doesn’t let the animal live how it is supposed to live. As a baby, a wild animal isn’t bad but when it grows up it could possibly kill someone in the household. If you had a wild animal and they grew up indoors you can’t release them into the wild because the animal wouldn’t know how to hunt.
Wild animals as in the animals that are on the top of the food chain are supposed to live their life by hunting to gather food but if they are contained in an area they won’t live how they are supposed to live. If an animal is contained in a certain space no matter how close it is to the actual wild it will never be the same. As a wild animal, it is supposed to adapt to its outdoor environment and live how that animal is supposed to live. When an animal is taken from its natural habitat it will not know what to do in the new place it is being kept in. The only time an animal should be taken from its habitat is when it needs to be nursed back to health, but this should only be done by wildlife companies because the company has a better chance of nursing it and getting it back to its habitat.
A danger of having a wild animal as a pet is that it could possibly kill or injure you. As a baby, a wild animal couldn’t really be able to do anything bad to you but as it gets older and stronger it could potentially do more harm to you or people around it. If you play with a wild animal when it is little it will be able to bite you and it wouldn’t do anything. If that wild animal keeps that same mentality and bites you it could possibly injure you extremely badly. If a wild animal that is supposed to hunt, is being kept in an enclosed area they are more likely to be aggressive to the people that kept it there. The only way that a wild animal would not be aggressive to you is if its mentality completely changed. For a wild animal’s mentality to change the owner has to be extremely nice to it and not do anything bad to it, and even if the owner did that the animal’s mentality still has a chance of not changing.
If someone only wanted a wild animal as a baby and they released it back into the wild it would not know how to hunt and would not survive for very long. The animal would not know how to hunt because its food had been given to it all its life and it did nothing by itself. Also if you have an animal that is not native to the environment it could possibly mess up the ecosystem. If the animal messed up the ecosystem some of those species could go extinct. One time a man had a large snake and he didn’t want it anymore so he got rid of it. But when he released the snake it messed up the entire ecosystem that was already established. If you mess up an ecosystem by letting a non-native animal free in the wild you could possibly kill off many species in that area because it would be taking other animal’s food.
Overall, having a wild animal as a pet has many disadvantages and not very good outcomes. When you have a wild animal as your pet it doesn’t let the animal live how it is supposed to live. As a baby, a wild animal isn’t bad but when it grows up it could possibly kill someone in the household. If you had a wild animal and they grew up indoors you can’t release them into the wild because the animal wouldn’t know how to hunt. A wild animal not living how it is supposed to, the wild animal growing up and becoming stronger, and it not knowing how to hunt if they are kept indoors are all the reasons you shouldn’t have a wild animal as a pet.
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