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Only if they can take proper care on them and have sufficient knowledge about them. However it does annoy me when I see Americans with our Australian animals, like Sugar Gliders, in cages.
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I think with proper care it is possible to keep an exotic animal in captivity. But I don't think most of those animals are very happy. And most people don't know how to care for them. We used to be friends with a family that had a special wildlife permit to keep animals with needs and exotic animals that people couldn't or shouldn't be owning. They specialized in cats like lions and bobcats, mountain lions, wolves. Yes, they knew how to take care of them, proper diet and vet care, fabulous enclosures like the wild. But the animals just weren't happy. There was a full grown lioness that had been declawed and kept in a suburban home! Someone came to them with a pair of 'pet' bobcats whose nocturnal ways was destroying their house. They weren't meant to BE housecats. It was sad. And you can't release them back into the wild after they have been so people oriented.
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