The Pros And Cons Of Banning The Ownership Of Exotic Pets

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Exotic animals as pets consist of having animals that we used to see in a zoo but at home. Trying to define whether is right to give licenses or ban them, should not be hard. In my critic opinion licenses should be ban due to the implications that having an exotic animal represents.

Taking a savage animal out of its habitat is not a clever idea because its instinct will always remain. Also, people is not prepared to deal with the magnitude of taking care of seven hundred pounds of wild instinct. According to the article "License the Cats" animals often end up with people not fully prepared for that responsibility. A clear example is one exposed in the article "Ban the Ownership of Exotic Pets" where a man in Ohio released over 50 exotic pets into his neighborhood. Definitely, it caused a lot of trouble.
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In the US there are sixteen states that do not have restrictions which is a serious problem to which the government should find a solution. The population of these animals is dangerously low due to loss of habitat, hunting, and trading in the market. Based on the premise established in the article "Ban the Ownership of Exotic Pets" people is unable to satisfy animal's needs and therefore people shouldn't have a license to have them. Trading these animals to satisfy and outlier pleasure it's a problem of a potential extinction of certain