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.
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Animal Rights …
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.
No wonder I don’t …
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.
if wild animals …
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?
Just what is the …
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.
Saw your videos of …
Saw your videos of your birdCan you spell hypocrite?
Wild animals belong …
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.
Hmm, you have your …
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.
You are working …
You are working towards having your own sanctuary?!?! Yet believe that animals should roam free. Instead of opening another sanctuary why not help those already open, or help with their actual conservation in the wild. After all a sanctuary goes against the very thing you say you stand for. Let me guess, YOU know how to properly care for them which is why you can have a sanctuary. Does AR give you entitlement over other humans as well? Sanctuaries are NOT the only ones providing excellent care.
i hope you know …
i hope you know that your “sweetheart” was forced from the arms of her true mother so that you could pretend to be her mom.
how kind of you…
i would call you a ‘shit’ for doing something so awful to a poor mother macaque, but i’m not cruel. so i just shake my head in your direction…
…should i tell …
…should i tell you my life story about helping animals, protesting, supporting liberation, working with AR groups, working without AR groups, treating abused animals with the respect they deserve, spreading knowledge of said roadside zoo’s techniques and of other places? or are you going to let my opinion lie where it is?
thanks.
Let’s see, you have …
Let’s see, you have worked with deadly horses, OK, I guess that makes you qualified to run a scamtuary. I have not read anywhere in any of your posts where you did anything to help the animals at the roadside zoo. You just said that you worked there. To me it’s sounds like you’re a typical AR groupee, in that you point fingers, but never take any action yourself, other than stalking videos and sites of those that care for exotic pets.
oh i’m glad you …
oh i’m glad you asked!
i have a lot of experience working with wild animals- in fact, i spent two years employed at a roadside zoo, where the facts about exotic animal ownership were right-up-in-my-face! currently i have accepted an internship at a primate sanctuary in florida to help the victims of the exotic animal trade, traumatized individuals forced to act human. i am a devoted animal rights activist with a good bit of knowledge on the subject. i have also worked @ a kennel & a horse farm.
Laromone… what …
Laromone… what exactly have you done for any wild animals? What experience do you have? Or is it that you just like to spout off about tthings that you have no REAL idea about? Just curious.
Ha ha, I find it …
Ha ha, I find it funny you see a bikini- clad whatever and a chain. It’s people that learn to live WITH animals, not just beat an ar agenda drum. Any person ignorant would not be able to learn the ways of any animal and co-exist whether it’s in “your” fashion or not. Where has conserving wild habitat gotten anyway?? I’d much rather have two eggs in two baskets than one in a half basket. You are right about they aren’t the pets of ignorant people, I’ll give you that one!
Have you considered …
Have you considered for a moment that this animal is submissive by its own free will? These cats have not been beat or coerced into submission– they have been loved into a relationship. Watch the ‘lazy lions videos on her website, and you will see that this is the way lions really are. And not only do I think these animals make good ‘pets’ in the hands of the qualified, responsible owners, but I wish everyone could have a pet lion. This world would be a whole lot better place!
these images of a …
these images of a bikini-clad model holding the chain to a submissive lion or tiger sicken me. does it make you feel good to hold dominance over a larger, much more powerful creature?
lions and tigers belong in the wild or in natural, responsible sanctuaries. they are not the “pets” of ignorant people. they are not meant to cower at the heels of some stupid slut!
grrrrrrrrrrr!!!! as someone working to have her own animal sanctuary, this video appalls me.
Nobody absolutely …
Nobody absolutely NEEDS to own a cat or dog, either. They can live out in the wild. Ever hear of feral cats? Also, who says anything about seeking endangered ones out? Not everyone who owns an exotic animal owns a chimpanzee for christ’s sake.
Now reverse that- …
Now reverse that- you are saying “some do so we all do”. Your idea of abuse is simply being in captivity- the majority of the US is a pet OWNING population so if you didn’t baffle with bs you wouldn’t have the money going to the big AR orgs in the form of donations ‘helping’ all the poor animals get legislated out of existence. I don’t contribute to abuse- you contribute to lack of reason an dlogical thought added to control issues. I don’t have the same religion as you so you try to FORCE it.
It’s much better to …
It’s much better to learn to live WITH than without. Feral cats? Feral dogs? Ever heard of them? So you wanna drive THAT ownership into extinction based on….what? Any animal can bite including humans. If some are capable of co-existing I think I’d be looking THAt way to learn rather than non- existence.
Allysia- you are …
Allysia- you are being a sub-speciest , profiling and generally being a ‘shit’. I personally raised a 10 day old macaque, didn’t sleep, pee or shower alone for the first six months. She’s past twelve years old now- totally intact including teeth and THUMBS and no abberant behavior. Still a sweetheart too. Your opinions seem to be based totally on ANIMAL RIGHTS AGENDA and you aren’t considering you may just have an OPINION- doesn’t make it true or right in the least. There’s MANY good owners.
Difficult but not …
Difficult but not impossible. You indicate you worked with chimps apparently not wild ones so kept by someone, some individuals could afford to do the same too without being a big business zoo. The point of comparing the two species is it doesn’t have to be exactly what they get in the wild to be be happy. Yes it will be different levels of care but that does not make it impossible.
It shows I don’t …
It shows I don’t value one species over another just because they get better PR
In what country? …
In what country? Nowhere in the US would it be legal to cut off thumbs. That’s abuse and against the law no ban needed. Just like setting a cat on fire is against the law and would make as much sense to ban cats because of some abuse. Just ban abuse and enforce that. As for separating from mom so are domestics. Foals are forcefully weaned and left to scream for mom for days on end. Exotics are bottle raised so don’t feel that separation since they are taken before forming a bond.
What evidence? That …
What evidence? That some wind up in sanctuaries, many of those are there because they were taken because of these stupid ban laws. You have an actual legitimate study with statistics on how many bred and sold compared to how may in rescue to show a percentage? Or are you just saying because some need new homes all must be abused?
Stay with me, since …
Stay with me, since children are abused, attacked by pedophiles, grow up and kill, there is no such thing as a good parent. Hence we should ban having children. This is your line of reasoning.
Open your eyes, look, observe and do your OWN research…because a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Otherwise, you are just an oxygen thief.