For me, the most telling sign is that most of these animals are social. Naturally they live in big groups. Seeing someone own 1 monkey, 2 zebras, 1 capybara, 1 meerkat. No, you're not meeting their basic needs. Getting 2 isn't enough. All of those animals live in huge herds. Also the way she holds that monkey whilst making a video, putting on make up around a monkey, dressing up your capybara. It's obvious its all for clout.
When I was 13, I really really wanted a ferret. So I spent months and months watching care videos, adding up costs, and planning on proper places to rescue a ferret. But after a year of research (although I knew sooner) I accepted the fact I wasn’t able to take care of several ferrets. I couldn’t give them the time and space they needed to live the best lives. At the age of 14 I knew I should not get this animal because I couldn’t give it what it deserved. These people just getting exotic animals expecting no consequences is just upsetting.
You're a great Person and there should be more People like you. It is important to do proper Research and also accept if you can't take Care of a Animal properly. I hope your Situation changed since then and if not, I hope it will at some Point
I lived in Madagascar and lemurs are not only highly endangered but it is absolutely illegal to export them out of the island of Madagascar. If you see a private person with a pet lemur, that animal was smuggled in or their parents were smuggled in to be breed and be sold. The only place where it is legal to have a lemur are licensed zoos, like, an actual zoo, not some crazy person’s backyard or “rolling petting zoo.” These people are disgusting.
@@YuNa_Gchrdworse wild endangered animals that illegally kept as pet arent just lemur. There are sloth in South America, captured wild cockatoo in Indonesia, tarantula and so on. Many are die from bad shipment or quickly die in captorer hand and in buyer hand they would suffer from improper care too
I got blocked by a monkey owner becuase I kept calling him out. It spent half it's time with it's head under a blanket rocking back and forth, the other half biting it's arm or screaming.
My gods, that poor baby. I know very little about monkeys, but that’s an obvious sign of distress in a lot of animals. How can someone be so indifferent to an animal, _especially_ a supposedly beloved pet, suffering that much?
@@Evilgreboat an animal rescue ive been to they have a spider monkey who had gone blind from not being taken care of his previous owner had kept him in one of those tiny bird cages (which arent big enough for birds either btw) and when he started becoming aggressive they abandoned him and the rescue took him in and this year they got him surgery to make him able to see again and moved him into a big enclosure with other spider monkeys (to clarify the cage the rescue place had him in was still big enough for him to be happy just smaller than the main enclosure since he was blind and not used to having room to move around)
Sadly the fact that Kamy own a dingo could actually damage the population of them rn. That dingo looks alot like a alpine dingo, which is from one of the two populations in Australia. Which are the alpine region, and the malee region. There's currently under 1000 wild dingo in Australia, and the attention she gets from owning one, could cause someone to unknowingly get one from the exotic trade, which she most likely did knowingly. 😐 hate these idiots.
That's what I was thinking as well. Alpine dingos are critically endangered and were thought to be extinct for a while. No way should it be in someone's house and I feel like no way is it LEGALLY in her care.
I didn't know that Dingos are that extremely rare. Of course I knew before already that their Population needs Help. Also if it is a Alpine Dingo, that makes it even worse, because I think those are the rarest. My Theory why it passed away: she probably didn't do proper Research and fed it normal Dog Food (which they can't properly digest)
Most large exotic pets come from zoos, circuses and private collections. Depending on the size of the zoo and their participation in the zoological communities, they may or may not sell some of their exotics to those willing to buy. The illegal pet trade mostly affects small animals that are easy to smuggle, like birds, reptiles and amphibians. Large mammalian animals are usually sold illegally only within countries of their origin and any other country bordering them, rarely for pet purposes and mostly for traditional medicine. Most people perpetrating the illegal exotic pet trade are also dirt poor people from third world countries, and not someone from Australia. Considering all of the above it is very unlikely Dingoes will be poached for the purposes of pet trade, unless within Australia only. What I would personally be more concerned about is not Dingoes getting poached - let’s be honest, it’s much easier to find a Dingo-looking stray puppy and sell it as a dingo, a person who is not an expert would be the none the wiser. The biggest issue is that they’ll get a wild animal with little to no experience of working with them. Most people don’t know how to deal with a dog properly, never mind an exotic animal.
I work in a wildlife sanctuary where we rescue hurt animals and rehabilitate them, that Capybara definitely seemed stressed. That poor Capybara. That made me so upset.
I was thinking the same, I remember hearing they are similar to how hamsters need at least one other one, makes sense they're rodents and the whole thing about rodents are they are mostly really social
@@Prettywhite4awhiteguy😰 where the Hell do you get your Informations? Domesticated Hamsters are solitary and territorial. I think there's a single Species of Hamster available in the Pet Trade that can be kept together. You should at least keep two Capybaras though (like their closest Relative, the Guinea Pig)
that Kamy girl is really disturbing. There's no way she can bond with all those animals, its heart breaking to know that they are likely just rotting in a cage without proper food and stimulation, also that Cockatoo looks rather thin.
I'd be very concerned about how much attention the cockatoo is getting. She didn't show any other parrots, and cockatoos especially need tons of attention. All parrots actually need time out of the cage, and how are you gonna provide that if you've got all those other exotic animals around that could be a threat to your cockatoo? Many primates will eat a bird, and so will snakes. But even if you've got an aviary, it's not enough if the bird is lonely. The bird could be thin because it's too depressed to eat.
@@brassbuckles yeah :( thats my thought too you see all these channels who properly care for cockatoos and they're always sl bright so energetic hes not
@@emofurryboyfriendasmr They're one of the types of parrot I would not want to own due to the sheer amount of attention they need in order to thrive. People love them because they are cuddly, but don't realize you pretty much have to be a stay-at-home parrot owner or at least have someone at home at all times to keep them happy. Let's be real, most people don't even have enough time available to keep budgies happy. I had a budgie, and even if they don't strictly need the level of attention a cockatoo does, they want it. I'd love to have a bird again, but I have a cat. Generally speaking, I think it's a bad idea to have parrots around cats or dogs, regardless of the videos you might see of them interacting. You might never have a problem, or you might have a tragedy occur before you can react to stop it. Better not to risk it.
@@brassbuckles oh yeah parrots do require near constant attention, i have one myself (sun conure!) who i got as a rescue so double thr attention! thankfully i have tje ability to spend as much time as she wants with her but its definitely not for everyone at all and i generally don't recommend it
Or work at a rescue, I love wolfs and foxes greatly but would never ever own one so instead I rather work at a good rescue that I know is proper after doing research to supplement for that in a way that’s healthy for me and the animal
When you said “Zebra biting your arm off” I was like “Yeah… people don’t know that still?” Zebras kill the most zookeepers compared to any other animal. They aren’t cute little black and white horsies! They are murder donkeys with stripes.
For real though. There’s always stories of people getting eaten by these animals too or even worse another person who isn’t even involved. Like, even domesticated animals have turned on their owners for no discernible reason. Pretty sure that you have a higher chance of this happening with a wild animal and it’s going to hurt a lot more when your pet lion tries to bite your head off than your pet Chihuahua…
Yeah, zebras are like the asshole bullies of the savannah; it's likely a personality they developed because they live in wide open spaces filled with predators that want to eat them, but the bottomline is, they will fuck you up if given the chance, so do your best to minimize those chances as much as possible by NOT BUYING ONE AS A FUCKING PET
I blame trends and TikTok , Remeber the axolotle (spelt wrong I know ) because of the increase in popularity in 2021 , many people went to go buy them , but they had no experience with these endangered animals , living things are not your trend , and are not something to throw away when you done with them
Yup I saw an axolotl in a bowl once, it’s sad that they became trendy as they’re harder to take care of than fish (they’re more sensitive to water parameters than fish). They’re also expensive to keep because the best way to cool their tanks is using a chiller which can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on the size of tank you own (the bare minimum for them is a 20 gallon long aquarium but I’d go with a 40 breeder personally). They also are a huge commitment living 10+ years. I don’t own one right now, I’m just educated as I really do want one eventually.
@@Walmartviolist yea , Thank u for more information about the required living conditions for a axolotl and I’ve seen people on TH-cam , due to the axolotl being added to the game (even though mojang said they weren’t going to add sharks because their endangered but then added Axolotls , polar bears and sea turtles ect Is just playing off a trend.
Just to clarify all, minius a few cases, Axolotls in the pet trade are captive bred not from the wild and, therefore, don't affect the wild population.
I once watched minecraft TH-cam that I for some reason didn't know were content farm shit, and one of them would kill their siblings minecraft axolotle, and them a real one. That set off alarm bells, and I went to their comments to recommend resources on axolotle care. But then it seemed this same video concept happened a lot, and not enough siblings... it was a content farm, and I had NO clue what they did to the poor things afterward.
I’m sorry but monkey AND lemur cage? Lemurs and monkeys used to live in Africa together but due to monkeys and their aggression to lemur’s they had to flee to Madagascar to live in peace. DONT PUT THEM TOGETHER!!! Gosh! There’s a reason they’re only on one island in the world.
She shouldn’t put them in a cage at all, that is in no way natural. They will have a horrible living quality. They need an environment that is like the one they usually live in. If you can’t that provide that, don’t get that animal.
I'm so glad someone mentioned this. The wild cat accounts literally drive me nuts! Lynxes, servals, caracals, even mountain lions and bengal cats (exotic cat hybrids) are 100% being exploited for views and I hate that it's so popular right now.
Oh my gosh I saw a short on big floppa recently and everyone in the comments were gushing over it. All I could think of was how irresponsible the owner was for having a exotic cat like that and promoting it as a good pet.
Literally! Me and my mother used to foster squirrels and possums for a local animal rescue and that was a lot, I can't imagine having all of these animals 😭
I’m so glad you pointed out the difference between educational/rehabilitation TH-camrs and content creators who exploit animals and are not actively trained to take care of them. The educational ones, like The Urban Rescue Ranch, actively speak out against content creators who get exotic pets with no training/care for them and exploit them. There’s been many videos where Ben has spoken out about the problem of people getting exotic pets and pets in general after they see content creators with their own (uncared for) animals. Then those animals end up getting abandoned or dumped into the arms of rescuers/rehabbers. I hope more and more people continue to speak up/against these content creators who exploit animals for views. Thank you so much for your amazingly put together video.
Snow seems to dislike her or be annoyed by her, their spikes are up and out, i work with hedgehogs and as soon as they smell my hand their spikes go back. I think really paying attention to the behavior of the animals will reveal a lot about how she treats them. 3:48
Yes I agree! My friend used to have a hedgehog and he would always relax his spikes when she petted him. He’d hiss at me though haha. Good little fellow. I’d just give him his space.
There is no ethical way to get your hands on a kinkajou. And most of them have their teeth removed when they are poached as they have a tendency to bite when they're afraid
Options for people who want "wild" animals! Pigeons (you can adopt them from a rescue in the US, they fly, you have to work hard to earn their trust) Rats (I don't even know if these guys were ever domesticated, but they're hecka smart) Ferrets (good luck trying to tame their wild instincts, I tried and failed) Snakes/turtles/tortoises (might need to do some research on how they're sourced, and they need special equipment, but 10/10 very wild animal if you like reptiles)
I refuse to believe that Kamy and whatever team she has are able to adequately care for all of those animals. I have 4 cats and 2 dogs and it takes so much work to keep them all happy, and these are domesticated animals. Non-domesticated animals have completely different needs, not to mention the variety of needs because of the vastly different species. And there is no way that they are given enough attention to catch any medical issues early on. I wonder if they have exotic vets on call or what, because most vets are not able to treat these animals. But something tells me they don't really care.
RIGHT?!?! LIKEthat hugeeeee space??? is she doing it alone??? Im so confused cus no way if its just her and her dad or sth. if theyre not in the sanctuary business, then i doubt they are doing anything correctly.
I have two cats and one horse and I also cannot believe it, I mean I’m sure she hires people but even those animals (especially the horse) are just a shitton of work, I feel like it’s almost impossible to meet all of my pets needs and I only have three!
I have two dogs, and keeping them both happy and healthy is a lot. I'd love to have a cat too, but I know for a fact that would be stressful for the poor thing because one of our dogs is a Dachshund. A hunting dog with a high prey drive If more people actually read about animals rather than buying them(or capturing/smuggling) on a whim, then the world would be a slightly better place
Right? I currently have two cats ( and 4 kittens as of a few weeks ago), and a snake, and my dog was put down last month as of old age and that just that is a lot of work and attention and its the least amount of pets I have at a time (not including the kittens, dont usually have them) Plus, morally, having wild animals (even snakes - mine was capture bred - though) is wrong. My favorite animal in the world is foxes, but I would never own one because I dont think its morally correct. They, along with other wild animals, deserve to be free, unless they for some reason cannot survive in the wild, then they deserve to be at a professional rescue/sanctuary where they can be cared for properly with people that have the proper knowledge and skill.
As someone who lives most of my life in the Amazon rainforest, I can say that I DO NOT want any "exotic" animals as pets, the only exception is that I want a raccoon😂
Although like all exotic pets, they might be cute, but they're a menace. They will search everything they can find in your house and either destroy or eat it :P. One guy even rescued a racoon and she decided to make her nest in his wall.
THIS IS WHY RATS ARE THE BEST@@shirashiraonthewall They have all the amazing qualities of a racoon and they are alot more manageable:D! Sadly though they omly live for 4 years
I mean.. weirdly enough zebra are probably the LEAST obscure animal on this ( outside of the domesticated ones - IE llama, alpaca, reindeer and of course horses ). they're weirdly more common than you think. When I lived in texas several ranchers had zebra herds lol either to make 'zonkeys' or just for fun.. and that was WELL before tiktok ect ruined the exotic pets trade. that was in the 90s lol that said, yes, they make terrible pets, many zookeepers say that african wild dogs and zebras are the two most dangerous animals at the zoo
I'm mostly worried about the Cockatoo, the Primates (hope they at least were born in Captivity and I feel bad for the Black and White Ruffed Lemur, because she seems to only have one. Don't know if they can properly integrate into a Group of Ring Tailed Lemurs. Also Primates seem to be one of the most badly treated exotic Pets) and the Reindeer (they need a cooled down Stable, which she hopefully provides and as far as I know, they also seem to require Lichen in their Diet)
Zebra are more commonly owned than you think by ranchers. They’re considered “exotic hoofstock” and are popular in states like Texas. Same with deer and antelope.
Pro tip: just pretend your regular animal is an exotic animal sometimes. I love treating my Chihuahua cross like she's a baby deer I've found in the forest, or a little fox I must protect and give snacks. So many exotic pet owners are performative and just want to be different, you shouldn't have a pet just to seem cool, but playing pretend with ab animal you can give proper care to is the best thing to do!
as the world's biggest meerkat fan i absolutely hate hate HATE seeing people have pet meerkats. people act like they would be oooh so cute and easy to care for just because they're adorable. yes, they're cute. no, they are not suitable pets. NEVER! unless you are somehow able to care for an entire mob of them, and can give them a naturalistic enclosure that gives them the space and food they NEED, then you have NO business having them in your care!
13 years ago I was on staff of the zoo that responded to the “zanesville massacre”. Where a problematic “private zoo” released animals. I can not stress how much these people stress me out and take me right back to that time and that scene.
@@xdani_thethinkingneko it was a truly awful experience, one of the worst things I’ve ever experienced. Heart breaking, frustrating, soul crushing. What can be found on google barely scratches the surface that day; many of the animals are from the following day when they were all moved to the same spot to be counted and inventoried. The sights, the sounds…the smell. God the smells. I tried but I was unable to continue working in a zoo environment after.
I must echo the other comment - Holy Crap. That whole story is so freaking sad. All those poor animals. I do feel for the guy as well. Clearly he was suffering severely from his time in Vietnam. What a mess. The lack of laws about exotic animals in some states actually blows my mind.
Oh shoot it has a name? I remember hearing about the animals being released but I was a child so didn’t think more about it. That is crazy though that he could collect that many exotic animals in the first place.
A lot of people will concider my pets "exotic" since its an exotic bird. I take good care of my bird, and i often make videos of them on my instagram. A lot of people in the comments have been telling me things such as "I want one too", and i thought "thats so cool", but after this video where you explained how bad it can be for uneducated people to own animals they dont know about, i will now inform them if they ask. Thank you!
its a good idea to make a whole video discouraging people from owning them, you could help a lot of birds not be put in horrible households. thank u for taking care of ur bird so well btw birds are the best!!!! id own one but i always have cats :////
@@shirashiraonthewalldo you think it’d be a good idea to do the same for snapping turtles? I don’t really see my channel as an informative one, more of a log I occasionally post on, but knowing how people treat turtles I don’t really want to accidentally encourage people to want them.
@@shirashiraonthewall turtles in general are seen as one of those ‘cutesy’ species, especially when they’re small. There are so many cases that people will get them as little babies and then someone be surprised when they grow to be adult turtles. People also mistreat aquatic turtles the same way people mistreat fish, or just treat them like they are fish. With snapping turtles it’s almost the opposite, where people get them to be cool and aggressive like people get certain types of bigger or scarier looking dogs. People then basically train them to bite and bother them until they do bite, there are also many channels of people basically forcing them to bite objects that could hurt them, like phones. (Snapping turtles are mainly aggressive out of fear, not out of aggression.) I’ve also seen so many people who own snapping turtles basically keep them in tiny barren tanks where they can barely do a small circle (including my local zoo…) just thinking ‘oh they’re snapping turtles they just want to sit around and do nothing.’ In fact, snapping turtles love to explore their tank and walk around a lot, they just also sit on one spot for long periods in-between. They’re also quite intelligent.
I'm a ball python owner and the horror stories I see from some groups I'm apart of is just jaw dropping. Tropical snakes being kept in shoeboxes, no heat or heat sources with no regulstion causing burns, living in their own filth for so long that bacteria eats away at their scales. The worst I saw was 20 layers of stuck shed from A SCIENCE TEACHER.
How old is your BP? What gender and how big is the tank and such? I’m a new owner and mine has been on a food strike for a month. We’re trying again tonight, but I just want tips, thanks!
100×45×45 cm is the base for them, with a lot of hide, not a big water but enough when they molt I think. I am still learning with mine. She...is really too small for her age, Im almost thinking they put the wrong age because she is 2 years old, but still a baby
Please never forget, that if you buy exotic animals (and a lot if them are shipped illigally), you're not just buying the one that lived. During the (illegal) transport up to 50-80% die during the prozess and also the hunting (especially when we talk about fish). What u buy are highly traumatized animals and lots of them r babies, cause their mother got killed. Sometimes on purpose, cause people think babies "are cute".
I treat my doggy like any exotic animal I wish I had, petting a baby deer and domesticating a wild fox with her favourite treats. It's the most ethical way and my girl enjoys the games and is a pet I can actually properly take care of
Some exotics like rabbits, birds or reptiles are fine. You just need to make sure they come from an ethical breeder or a rescue and you can properly care for it for its entire life.
@sadboiinasweater6104 How cute. As soon as I got access to my money I bought a spotted genet, and have been getting exotic pets ever since. So "unrealistic".
I'm really glad someone's talking about this, the imports of giant african land snails have been really bad since their boom on tiktok- and I don't think people realise how bad they are treated in the wildlife trade. It's so bad airports literally contact me as a final chance for them.
I am obsessed with them until I discovered they are illegal to own and I am uneducated anyhow so I will stick to looking at videos and pictures of cute shell puppies respectively
I adore Fennec Foxes, there is a part of me that would love to have one as a pet, but I also recognise that I, like the vast majority of people would be entirely unequipped to care for one and that they are wild animals that would live a much better life in their natural habitat.
Zebras are extremely hard to train. There were some Attempts in the Past (there was for Example a Zebra drawn Carriage in the Past) but it seems rather unlikely that you can properly train it, especially if you have no Experience with Horses or Donkeys, but at least it is not completely impossible
@@Firestar-TV Even if you train a zebra, they have very weak spines and are not suitable for riding for prolonged periods of time. You’ll get a slow ass horse with the temperament of a donkey that will have severe spinal issues because it was not bred for riding, but hey, at least you’ll look cool.
@@enfieldlammergeier thought so too that it's probably the Case, because it's the same with Donkeys. Zebras are more like a Pet to just have around instead of riding. But there are probably lots of other Things you could train them to do, especially to make Stuff like Hoof Examinations easier
At 12:23 , you aren’t supposed to hold frogs bare handed, you need gloves because of the oils in your hand could dry out the frogs moist skin. It’s dangerous, it just proves that some people have no clue what they’re doing.
The moment i saw they have a zebra......im like "u got to be joking me". EVEN ZOOKEEPERS don wan to deal with them at times and yet these ppl.....be getting these zebras as if theyre horses.
Worse, something I've learned about horses is, they need to be raised around other horses. You can't just hand-raise them away from other horses and expect them to grow up and be able to be handled. If they don't learn how to be a horse and get taught manners by their mother or a similar adult horse/herd, they can become downright aggressive, and their bad behavior can also extend to other horses. What I'm getting at is, she said she bottle-raised all of those zebras. So, hard as zebras already are to handle, hers are likely to be even worse-behaved than if they'd been raised with other zebras. Meanwhile she probably thinks that because they were bottle-raised and she's their "one person" (which is not something I've heard about zebras before, though I'm not an expert. I doubt it's true, but it could be), they should be even more tame than usual. But no, the opposite is true because they never learned how to be proper zebras from other adult zebras.
@@brassbuckles wait i thought she got like 2 of them or sth at least so would that be considered "raised amongst other horses"? Omg its worser then i thought then if thats the case :(
@@akabaneaki She said she bottle-fed her zebras, and a horse or a donkey is not a zebra. The zebras needed to be raised with other zebras when they were young to benefit their psychological development. Same as horses need to be raised around horses. Being raised with/around horses or donkeys is probably better than nothing, but not the same thing. The way I've heard it explained is that a foal learns manners from its mother/other horses in the herd. I imagine there are other psychological factors involved, similarly to how a cat or dog isn't going to behave like a normal cat or dog if it was bottle-raised by humans from a newborn.
@@brassbuckles i see that makes sense OAO Oh gosh thats disturbing to know that she did that anyways. If shes as knowledgeable about her animals as she claims, i felt that she should have known this knowledge then compared to someone like me who isn't close to the animal industry.
@@akabaneaki Considering she's keeping a cockatoo alone and shows no sign of spending sufficient time with it, has a solitary meerkat (they are social animals too), and her two fennecs are actively frightened of her (which I have NEVER seen in any video where someone owned a fennec before--in fact they're usually excited to see their owner), I think we're not seeing the entire story. I also think she might believe she knows more than she actually does. My two cents; I'm not an expert, mind you. The foals needing to be around adult horses thing is something I learned recently from watching videos with people who know much more about horses than I do.
Bro and here I was thinking my guinea pigs were pretty exotic, and my sister and I researched them for 5 months before getting them as kids. We got them as big of a cage as possible, found a reputable rescue adoption center, and made sure to adopt a related pair so they could have social comfort without fighting. We researched hay types and safe bedding and water bottle designs and common illnesses and vitamin and mineral intake needs. We were thorough! After 8 wonderful years the older one passed. We still have her son (7 years old) and we make sure to spend time with him every day so he doesn’t get lonely. He’s too old to get him a new cage mate, so this is the best option. This is the bare minimum research and love that any pet animal deserves.
What absolutely pisses me off is Kamy saying “my” to every animal. As well as me being Australian and getting so furious at all the Australian animals she “owns”
As someone who has worked with rescue meerkats one of the most important things i know about them is that they need companions (up to 30 preferably). Do NOT have them as pets cause that's abuse.
Years ago I had some fun watching and ‘playing’ (holding my hand up to the glass/plexiglass so they could ‘sniff’ my hand with a few at the National Zoo in DC. I admit that I was charmed and fell in love with how cute them were and definitely wanted one; but not enough to seek one out to adopt.
@5:10 I love how pure dingos are quite possibly spiraling towards extinction and we're just casually getting them as pets and deliberately crossing them with dogs.
That worries me in the same way wolf dogs do. People think its fine because they’re mostly dog, but then cannot handle it went the wolf genes express themselves and they end up getting rid of their animal. We do not need dingo dog crossbreeds.
I live in Australia and my dad had a pet dingo before I was born. He did so much research before getting his dingo Jedda, he made his fences taller as dingos are fantastic jumpers. He took excellent care of her and did everything right when looking after her, but unfortunately she made a run for it one day and was hit by a car. She made it to a mechanic but unfortunately passed after dad picked her up from the mechanic. Overall, if you want to look after a dingo, do it in Australia and buy from someone who breeds dingos sustainably, do extensive research before buying and take precautions.
@@kyoyameganebereznoffmy best friends family ended up getting two wolf/ dog pups this way. The person who had them previously didn’t understand what they were doing and gave them away to my friends parents (people who owned dogs from rough backgrounds and also owned horses that needed to be rehoused for various reasons). the wolves were well loved and very friendly and it turned out the female pup was pregnant so they ended up with new pups. They ended up giving the babies away after a few months to people they KNEW could handle wolf/ dog energy and danger. It has never been a thought that these animals were 100% domestic. They all knew they were still technically wild animals and needed special attention due to that. They still have one of the wolf babies, he’s an old old man now and probably still one of the sweetest dogs they ever had
from a kevin, i assumed this was me. but as i was watching this video, i grew to dislike this kevin. we as members of the international Kevin Community would like to apologize for his behavior.
@@kevincoolguy yeah its a joke about one of the animals from the urban rescue ranch, the rheas name is kevin and hes always suuuuper aggressive and bites everyone and everything haha. youre one of the good kevins 👍
If Kyle was a minor during the whole "animal sanctuary" thing, the mom is definitely the one that should be held responsible. I think Kyle seems like a person with good intentions, but bad role models. A stupid kid, if you will. At least now he is doing his part to repay his debt to the wild animals he might've inadvertently harmed.
I 100% blame the parents too, it was dumb of Kyle to not realize that what he was doing was wrong, but he was just a kid. My parents didn’t even allow me to foster regular cats until I turned 18 and was finally old enough to legally sign up to foster, because they didn’t want to deal with the responsibilities that come with it… meanwhile this dude was allowed to have a freaking capybara, and his parents didn’t even care??? It’s one of the parents’ responsibilities to control what animals their kids keep and how they treat them for sure.
Yeah as sad as it was i'm glad he's really turned around and become more responsible towards animals now that he knows better. 100% blame it on the mom who kept fixing the "issue" with money.
@AirConditioner402 But he’s still keeping them as pets, wich is like one of the most selfish things you can do. If he was actually responsible he would rehome them to an actual sanctuary where alle these animals can life the life they would naturally live.
i’m surprised he even is allowed these animals in england, we’re really really strict on animal licenses needed to my understanding, thought this sort of thing only happens in USA
Haven’t this people seen about the chimp attack survivor? Have people not learned about getting exotic or in the wild animals is dangerous and they aren’t build or made for domestic pets like cats or dogs, etc. I prefer those pets to be in the wild or in hand of professionals.
They think they're special, that their trafficked animals love them too much to attack them. I'm so glad owning wild animals is illegal in my country, it should be illegal everywhere.
@5:10 I love how pure dingos are quite possibly spiraling towards extinction and we're just casually getting them as pets and deliberately crossing them with dogs. There are three species, two are endangered to extinct and one is critically endangered. She's also spreading misinformation since dingos have been proven to be genetically distinct from wild dogs.
In 2017 I had a froend in Seattle who I visited. They had a Patagonian Cavvy. This poor thing was kept in a dog crate attached to a puppy play pen in their garage on a bed of straw. It wasn't socialized. Wasn't taken care pf. Was basically forgotten by the family of six in their garage, surrounded by boxes and old furniture. As a long time animal lover, it was sickening. These people also bred rabbits in their large backyard and kept them 24/7 in suspended wire bottom cages that were maybe 4 square feet. After that trip to Seattle, I never talked to that friend again, and he's the one who paid for my trip. Some people do not deserve to have anything beyond a cat or dog.
@@DoritoBot9000 they should have just a plush toy, statue, anything which look like animals they want but doesnt need proper care, proper diet, and of course checking its health condition
What is so frustrating is that even domestic animals take a lot of work and money, let alone an exotic animal. I love my cat so much and i put a lot of money, time, and attention into keeping her well fed and healthy. Its very upsetting that people are getting these animals and they are not gettinf the proper care.
Yes! I'm putting so much time, research and money into properly caring for my bunnies and birds, meanwhile these idiots are just buying /wild animals/ without thinking
Agreed, I have two budgies and recently a pigeon, in a few years or less I’m moving to a farm and will have a aviary, in the meantimes I will be doing all the proper research so I can take care of many types of birds, however I will only take in rescues, I don’t want to support what is most often animal trafficking when it comes to larger parrots, even now two budgies already are a handful, every little thing I worry over them for, they have a large cage, natural wood perches and toys, high quality pellets and the occasional fresh greens and veggies, the little tiny bastards mean everything to me, there so expressive and all have there own little personalities, Filo my albino budgie likes to pretend to be stuck for attention, she likes to climb and fling herself around and they both tweet loudly all day, ( no there wings do not get clipped ever ) I can’t imagine shoving them in a tiny cage with crappy food and not giving the best to them.
I love that you mentioned alveus, they just got a sulcata tortoise that was given to them because the family was moving, but sulcata’s are victim to the animal trade, and that fact that she has one on top of all her other animals is very telling. 4:21
I immediately don't trust anyone who isn't properly certified to care for wild animals. Especially ones that are: - Dangerous, but they pet or cuddle them. - Have very specific dietary and/or social needs. - Having their space ignored, and/or don't have a proper enclosure. - ENDANGERED! Which a lot, if not all, of these wild animals fall under one of those conditions.
The endangered part isn’t really a good indicator, many pets that are endangered in the wild have a thriving captive bred population ex: axolotl, sulcata tortoise, crested gecko. They’re widely available and like axolotl and cresties they have color variations that indicates they’re generations away from the wild population. As long as you’re getting them from a reputable store or breeder and not from a shady guy that sometimes go into the forest near their wild population or is/knows an exporter that’s likely to do smuggling there’s almost no chance that you’ll be supporting poaching.
That also criteria of animals which cannot be trusted as pet, since average household cannot satisfied all of their need. Add another criteria too like cannot bred in captive setting or very difficult to do that
Thank you for mentioning Alveus. Maya and her team do an amazing job with the sanctuary and the animal education is top notch. Really tired of these people acting like humans need to "own and domesticate" any wild animal they found cute. FFS let them be animals.
I own a Quaker parrot which is considered an exotic animal and it scares me how many people buy them with little to no education on how to care for them and how difficult they can be. They can be EXTREMELY loud, messy, and their bites (if they’re trying) will almost always draw blood. People will get them but when they realize it’s not that easy, they either neglect or get rid of them. So please please please remember if you get an exotic animal be prepared for how expensive they can end up being to care for, how time consuming it is to clean up after them, and how it’s not always easy to build a bond (and not all birds will ever like being touched that much). I love my bird so much and it pains me to see animals like him mistreated :(
Yep my moms friend had one and she has an autistic son so a loud parrot mixed with a child very sensitive to loud noises didn’t end very well. She ended up just dumping it onto her moms friend because she didn’t want it anymore and she rightfully got called out for neglecting that parrot. The living conditions were horrible for the poor thing to, it was one of those tiny finch cages you find in pet stores. Just sad. He is doing well though last I heard of him.
I love watching the wild flocks in the air chatting away. There's a few colonies around where I live and mainly they will build the community nests on cell towers here in south florida.
I appreciate that you closed out the video by encouraging people who want to learn more about exotic animals to pursue a career in conservation/rehab. I’m currently working on getting my degree in conservation biology with the hopes of doing exactly that! If we could channel the public’s curiosity away from the temptation to purchase animals and towards the desire to actually help them, a lot of good could be done in the world.
Once I rescued a snake (Kenyan sand boa, and yes i still own her) i had 0 experience with snakes or reptiles of any kind but, surprisingly, she was quite easy to take care of, it was trial and error and I HAD to rescue her. She was severely dehydrated and very small, now, she is a chubby girl
Of course, the rubbery sand worm! Luckily sand boas seem pretty tolerant in general, so that was a good snake to get stuck with. Im glad you rescued her
ya it's surprising how little "care" some animals acquire like all some animals need is room/space to "run" around food and water as well as "toys" and hiding/shelter spots, like my leopard gecko doesn't need to be held
I wish people would understand that just because you want an animal, that doesn't mean you could/will provide all of the needs for it - even for domestic, common pets. Like, I would love to have ferrets, they are incredible animals and I've always loved them. But I am not in the position to take care of one. They are highly social animals, and I am not home enough time during the day to give that interaction, and I do not possess the funds to buy and maintain a diet and cage for them. So I'm not getting ferrets (for right now, at least; maybe one day in the future, but I know I wouldn't be a good fit to keep ferrets). I wish other people had the same level of consideration for the animals they want to have instead of going "but I want one :(" and getting a pet they cannot take care of.
Yes! And it’s not just exotic animals. I’ve been wanting to adopt another rat or two for years now (haven’t had a pair since middle school) but I’m a busy college student. They need as much socialization as a dog, especially if I only adopted one, and I simply couldn’t give it enough love and attention right now. When my life becomes more stable I’ll definitely adopt again though
I love bats. I wish I had bats. I'm not dumb enough to try to keep any. If I ever live somewhere with bats, I'll put up some bat houses and hope I get to see some wild ones.
We actually put up a bat house quite a few years ago and like 3 years ago a bat finally moved in. It's so fun to watch it fly around at noon just catching insects. I can wholeheartedly recommend putting up bat houses, although it might take a while before one moves in :)
My ex loved bats too! But instead of keeping them as pets she decided to volunteer at a bat rehabilitation facility near where we lived. My mom loves sloths but knows they would be bad pets so we (my brother and I) raised enough money for her to go to a sloth sanctuary as a volunteer for a week! There are ways to actually help your favorite animals without keeping them as pets. Especially dangerous or endangered animals.
The stress it must be for those poor animals is unbelievable and I hate it, hope hell has a special place for people who abuse and breed exotic animals for clout and money
Zebras do occasionally just magically show up at your door. At least one did for me a few weeks ago. A trailer transporting a few Zebras lost all of them near our home in North Bend, WA. They ran as a heard through the area, through our yard and neighbors, and were eventually rounded up.
As a Floridian, it is encouraged in our state to breed Ringed Tailed Lemurs bc they’re an endangered species. They’ll offer you the care and help if you are willing to breed them but they make sure you’re financially capable and everything to keep them.
But they’re not endangered in Florida because they’re not from there? The average person is not going to have the resources to help repopulate Madagascar or do important species research. I don’t see the point of breeding them under those circumstances.
@@zachowon But breeding isn't the only part of repopulating a species. These animals need to learn how to survive in the wild, and rehabilitators need to make sure these skills are passed to the next generation. If you breed 100 lemurs and not one knows how to evade a fossa, when those lemurs get released to Madagascar, they're dead. People who own lemurs in their comfy homes could never teach them how to survive in the wild, this is why these jobs should only be handled by professionals who have the resources and knowledge to properly repopulate these species.
I don't know when people are going to understand there's a reason that we haven't been able to domesticate zebras. They are just way too spirited, and it is dangerous to try to domesticate them. They need to be left alone, except for when a wildlife rescue is helping rehabilitate them, or potentially raise their numbers in the wild. "I thought those stripes meant, come on give me a hug" Lol this has me wheezing 😭
@@shirashiraonthewall yeah I get that they're beautiful, so I can see from that aspect....but definitely not good, or human to have as pets. Unless ofc they can't be released for some reason,which is very rare. They are actually pretty mean to each other as well. I feel like zebras are two horses, in the same way that dolphins are to mantees. (Like mantees, are what we thought dolphins where)A lot of people think that dolphins are really sweet, and they're not for the most part...but manatees are so sweet that they can get hurt because of it. In an era of democratized information,there is no reason to be this dumb. Even as a teen. It starts at home. I remember my mom would do so much research before we ever got a pet, and we got typical domesticated pets... It makes me sad to think about that tiktok are you showed, who had Queen elizabeth, he probably encouraged other people to get exotic pets, that they couldn't handle and had no idea how to handle....🥺
It's not even that they are "spirited," because a horse trained using modern methods doesn't get "broken" in the old sense that you had to break its spirit. Zebras are just too reactive to easily be tamed, as a result of their natural habitat and survival instincts. They are closer relatives of donkeys than horses, and donkeys will absolutely demolish coyotes or wolves that get into the fence with them. The Asiatic wild ass and the Kiang are similarly resistant to taming or domestication. It's not so much being "territorial" (Kamy was wrong there, because wild zebras don't really have a set "territory," they are migratory animals) or "aggressive" as "fearful" and "protective." Zebras have many predators trying to eat them in their natural habitat, so of course they're going to be less willing to tolerate a creature that's not their species approaching them. If zebras perceive a threat, they're going to either flee or fight to defend themselves and their herd. And since in captivity they are not only more used to humans, but they can't just run away across the savannah, fighting is a more likely option for them than it would be in the wild where they might be more apt to run.
@@brassbucklesZebras aren’t even really social animals the way horses are. They don’t have family groups or hierarchy, they live in a group for safety but have no issue attacking other zebras “just because.” There’s really no way to tame an animal like that, they’re one of the most dangerous zoo animals for a reason.
A guy online literally once said that “zebras are just striped donkeys on crack”. That should be enough to tell people that they can’t be pets, but people just want a pretty striped equine to show off I guess
Australia has such strict bio security laws and rules on what wildlife can be imported/exported and by who. It shits me that so many native Australian species (which are illegal for Australians to keep as pets) are bred for exploitation over in America all the damn day. Also most of all zoos in Australia have to be for conservation pretty much. Besides the hobby farm livestock petting ‘zoos’ (not actual zoos) they gotta be conservation based. All the wildlife based sanctuaries etc all have a conservationist goal.
To be fair, a lot of animals from North America are kept as pets overseas, although it's illegal to keep most if not all of them in most US states (I can't speak for Canada or Mexico). I've seen British people who keep striped skunks and raccoons, among others, but if you were to post videos of that here in the US, you'd better have licenses showing it was a rehab/educational animal and that you didn't just decide to take it out of the wild as a pet on a whim. I'm not condoning it. Most of these animals make terrible pets. Some people can keep them safely and maintain their health and happiness, but most can't. I'm not 100% against exotic pets, but there need to be controls on which ones are allowed, because some can become invasive if they're kept in the wrong region, some can't reasonably be kept ethically (in terms of their health and happiness), and some are just flat-out not safe for the average person to keep. And outside of breeding programs to preserve a species that was already in captivity, endangered animals should be an obvious candidate for being illegal.
I mean something like dingus being owned by the general public is a bad idea, but something like a bearded dragon or a blue tounged skink can make a wonderful pet for owners willing to put in the effort. It's highly dependent on the species.
Same with Brazil! A person can get a deserved fine and deservingly go to jail if they keep an exotic Brazilian animal as a pet. The trouble can be bigger if it is a endangered one! However, I see people (mostly the rich ones) from the USA keeping wild animals of our fauna as pets all the time! This is so frustrating. Our animals need to be kept in nature. 🫠
I'm in Australia, for reptiles and frogs for example you need a license. I own tree frogs but I needed a license. It's the same for native snakes. Exotics like chameleons and ball pythons are also banned here, and for a good reason. the wildlife here can be overrun easily and turn into a Florida situation. Overall I'm glad they're taking conservation seriously here. I was baffled when the tiktoker whipped out a Dingo, you can only see these dogs in remote islands (like K'gari) or in zoos!
Oooh very happy to discover your channel shira, that's a very nice vid! I don't have tiktok, barely ever open instagram, so I definitively need people like you to keep me up to date on the stupid trends ^^ But most importantly, any effort to demonstrate the negative impact of such trends is extremely valuable, thank you! I hope one day the numbers are inverted, that you get the millions views these animal abusers get, while they return to the irrelevance they should've never left.
@@ilovefish9458You can have an orchid mantis in the U.S, asfaik it requires a permit to own/be imported. Plenty of reptile keepers have permits because of the reptiles they keep, so do bug owners.
@@disgust4941That may be the intent, but the comparison makes it seem like owning exotic bugs is on the same level as having a whole ass pet zebra or capybara
Now I am a reptile and athropod owner. When people come to me saying I want one or I want this rare species! The first thing I bring up to them is the cost and do your reserch. I am huge on don't get a pet if you cant afford it. My crestie is rather "cheap" but over time i have dunk atleast 500+ in the 4 years of ownership. Exotics are no joke and should never be a random purchase. Just because theres minium size of enclosures or need little amount of supplies you should want your pets to thrive.
Cant even think about all the snakes ive seen kept in random plastic totes on paper that are basically neglected. Some uninformed people dont realize that keeping reptiles involves keeping a whole little microclimate. Of course snakes seem to live fine in racks, but even then they are usually cared for better than people who just thought a snake was cool and put it in a 20gal
Yes, this! I have a chameleon who is weirdly a social whore. People constantly ask how they can get one and how much. It's amaking how quickly that desire vanishes when I mention I spend about $1000 down on enclosure, lights, and everything for setup (to be fair, it's not like you'd buy a new enclosure every week either) or that a panther chameleon from a good breeder can be around 300$Can or more depending on locale. Or vet bills. I've been pretty lucky there. Only had to take the one cham for medical attention after he tried to hump the heat lamp. Or that chameleons are not naturally social. Bribery goes a long way. I hand feed because my chams will do so and they've long since associated me with food or coming out with food. But there are some who never get used to being around people never mind having hands in their enclosure. The youngest I have is still iffy about my existence being necessary after a year of working with him. Or the space needed. I always go at last twice what's recommended. My monitor has his own room sized enclosure but I also let him free-roam supervised. Most people don't want to have a 5ft cankerous lizard as a roommate. A dog is always happy to see you. A lizard isn't always. And a lizard that big is fully capable of causing crippling damage to a hand or tearing off a finger if so inclined. People tend to backpedal quickly when they realize what they are seeing/experiencing when talking to me with my lizards out is just a small fraction of what goes on. It's the culmination of months to years of hard work and money, along with the experience necessary to not have too many setbacks in the relationships because of a mistake or misunderstanding on the humans part. I guarantee you anyone who has been tail-whipped by a monitor learns not to press it next time.
@@Kitsune1989 Seems like the little dude has a good life. Honestly a huge chunk of cash goes into my enclosure updates. I know a little about chamelons but for cresties as babies they do best in a 10 gallon and they recommended a 30. However I decided to go for a 50 gal I am working on right now. Also not to mention I am actively working on a bioactive and getting him a basking spot. The thing with reptile pricing is the changing of care. While just 5 years ago I was told "They're nocturnal they don't need uvb or lighting." And now I've been told there's a lot of benefits to it even for nocturnal animals. But yea one day I do wish to own a Tokay and Chameleon. Knowing very well they're not super social and the cost for their setups
@@JackOTraptern tokays≠social is the understatement of the century 🤣. My friend had tokays, these bright purple abominations. Since I didn't know what the hell they were at the time I asked if I could put my hand in there (since both of us keep things that might be inadvisable to be bit by) and my answer was "you can certainly try". That should have been my first clue. The little demon bit me, then stood there screaming at me and those things are loud. Of course I fell on my ass when the little demon started screaming what I can only guess were profanities and promptly broke my wrist. So I had to explain how a small lizard barely the size of my palm managed to send me to the ER to the nurses and the doctor, and then my mother. Yeah care is constantly changing for reptiles as we learn more about them. Remember when it was considered okay for a beardie to be in a 20gal tank? Or when heat mats were the only thing sold in petstores and you had to get heat tape online? If you were lucky you might have been able to find a proper basking bulb and lamp. Or if you kept chameleons in anything but mesh you'd be crucified by the reptile community? Now we have so many options it's sometimes difficult to figure out which one we actually need. My crestie was the last one on the table at an expo because he dropped his tail and nobody wanted him despite the really cool morph. He also has this weird kink for posing against the glass like a pinup girl. It's very clear he's on his last braincell and sometimes misplaces it. Yeah, when I went to get my permit approved for the new snake I'm getting part of the process is an inspection of the enclosure. So I took the guy on a tour of the reptile floor. Apparently devoting an entire room to one of my largest chameleons (parsons, and hes exceptionally big even for the species. 4ft from nose to vent) is excessive but I don't care. I'm not putting that in some tiny little minimum requirement enclosure. Nm my actual big boys like the monitors. I spend so much money on plants that my favourite garden store added a reptile section and I get the employee discount. 😅 Also I have a black thumb so my plants kinda get killed pretty quickly if not by me then the wear and tear of an animal who doesn't care about landscaping.
@@Kitsune1989 ya for some of my dram reptiles it like "how would I build a good enclosure we live in Canada" but the most common issue's I face with my pets is how much of a treat can I give them like they don't tell you online they only tell you how often but not the amount like I need to know how much I should cut up
I've been mildly depressed on and off lately about Otter Cafes in south east Asia and how they're being kept in environments that are just not ideal/enough for their healthy development and being fed cat kibble. Glad to see you making a video somewhat adjacent to the topic :)
"look at these skittish foxes" "ah look at my aggressive meerkat" gee. i wonder WHY these animals are skittish and aggressive when they're enclosed and raised among different animals i'm not saying they can't naturally be this way but still. most people need to go through a lengthy process to introduce two CATS to each other, there is no way you can have all these animals in one place and introduce them in a way that doesn't freak them out
Just got to Cammie’s section. She has a half alpaca half llama and as someone on an alpaca farm they are better in pairs but even better in trios. And shouldn’t be in pens with deer or near them because they carry a parasite that is not good for camelids.
I'm an exotic pet owner (reptiles and arachnids), and the lack of research these people do when purchasing and rehabbing animals makes me sick. I've seen too many people try to cohab snakes and lizards, or people who think that their arachnids dying quickly is natural (for example, my Asian forest scorpion should have a life expectancy of at least six years). The rise in popularity of ball pythons, leopard geckos, and western hognose snakes is especially concerning to me because of how frequently they're being bred, and the rise in popularity of genes like spider and enigma, which cause neurological disorders in the reptile. Don't even get me started on the Florida Burmese python problem.
Goodness, as someone who owns birds and knows a bit about them i feel very bad for that cockatoo. Those birds need LOTS of attention every day or they are very susceptible to psychological issues like plucking or mutilating 😢 With all of the animals she needs to manage i HIGHLY doubt kamys cockatoo gets any interaction at all... she probably locks it in a cage and calls it a day. To add on, many of the animals seem very incompatible, i imagine off camera the animals have fought at least once. I hope something is done about that lady because she shouldnt own all those animals
Yeah, there’s a huge difference in needs between an adult ball python (which thrives in a proper environment and low interaction) and a cockatoo or a primate which need constant interaction.
I am concerned for the cockatoo as well, although her comments on the other animals are serious red flags. I owned budgies in the past, and they require a lot of attention--but still need much less attention than a cockatoo. And all parrots need lots of out-of-cage time and plenty of play to be at their healthiest and happiest. Cockatoos are notorious for needing tons of attention. Not only that, but I'm concerned about the parrot being 1) the only parrot she has since she clearly doesn't have enough time to devote to it with all the other animals, and 2) surrounded by so many other exotic species, including primates, that could potentially prey on or harm the cockatoo. Fennecs that were captive-bred and bottle-raised shouldn't be skittish, they are very social and you can find videos of owners whose fennecs behave similarly to dogs. I'm not going to recommend owning one for a number of reasons, but I suspect hers aren't getting enough attention. Most primates also require a lot of socialization, but a little-known fact is that even small ones can be dangerous due to the diseases they carry. If you are unlucky enough to have a primate that is sick, that disease can pretty easily jump to humans. Plus, primates can become aggressive as they mature, even with the best of care. Then they have all those herd animals. Who's cleaning up after them? Who's feeding them? Are the horses getting trained and exercised regularly or are they kept as pasture pets? Are they getting regular grooming and hoof care? Those animals are too much for one person to reasonably care for, and maybe too much for two or three people. The animals look like they're mostly in good physical health (the cockatoo might be on the scrawny side though), and their enclosures seem clean, at least in that video. I'm guessing these people have lots of money and have employees who do a significant amount of the animal care, particularly the less glamorous chores. That leaves Kamy free to do her videos and the fun parts of animal ownership, like cuddle time or bottle feeding babies.
Thank you for promoting Alveus they are a good non profit charity that uses there non releasable animals to inform about problems in different trades such as the pet trade
Yea I just don't think these tiktokers realize that those animals are not meant to be pets, they are meant to be wild or at least in a safe enclosure like at a trusting zoo or rehabilitation center
I own 4 sugar gliders and I post videos but I have put a lot of time and research into them. Hours and huge cage it’s 6ft tall and 4ft wide. I get them out for hours a day. And they are very loved. They aren’t abused at all and were saved from an abusive breeder. So I feel I’m not apart of the abusive group.
Here's the funny thing about bobcats, THEY CAN NOT BE DOMESTICATED!!!! No matter how much socialization you give them, they will always be a wild animal. A fully grown bobcat can rip an adult human to shreds.
He killed it by smuggling it. Sounds like it was already dying but no doubt smuggling it and having live in such poor conditions definitely sped the process.
I mean… farmers kill pure creatures for a living (sending them to slaughterhouses). Not saying he’s good in any way but just know there’s way worse people who get peoples support (money) everyday
Honestly I really wouldn’t consider mantises super exotic they are pretty easy to care for and are easy to breed and have tons of babies at a time like 300-400. I would kind of put them into the same category as common reptiles and amphibians. I’ve kept some before we bred some of them for pest control in our gardens but they also were fun as pets they are very trainable too but they only live for about a year but I’ve had some live for almost 3 before.
Maybe not exotic in the sense of meerkats and lemurs, but they’re still exotic since “exotic animals” really just means anything that isn’t domesticated
@@szekacsandras611 I love owning mantises and other bugs I’ve kept grasshoppers, junebugs and spiders/tarantulas before as well they are just so easy to care for and take up so little space
Animals probably caught something from the local ground they werent vaccinated against and died from that and stress. Very common in exotics and even mixing domestic species.
When you said they're serious life altering purchase I absolutely agreed - I got a praying mantis at the beginning of 2023 and fell in love with the hobby. You can buy them easily, captive bred, for between £5-£40 depending on the species with lots of care information out there for them to live their full enriched lives, nothing like what you often see on tiktok. Mine have bioactive planted enclosures that are appropriate sizes for their species and I let mine out to wander plants alot and recently bred my orchid mantises which was fascinating. I've learnt alot but my first thought with all my animals - my dog, snakes, mantises, isopods and spider is always their physical and mental wellbeing over my enjoyment or desire for any new animal also. No animal chooses who they go home with, so it's our responsibility to give them the best possible life
If you love wild animals, you don't buy them to be your prisoners. You wish them a happy and healthy life and admire them from afar in their habitat. This is heartless, selfish, childish, and criminal. And to further promote it... awful. Great video 👍
Just a recommendation, if you ever make mroe videos like this, you can include a video of birds or other animals which seem to not feel good. I dont know about other animals, but if you see birds that have plucked out many feathers, that means they dont feel good. I'd love for you to make a video on this or just including it on a video, since i dont see many people talking about this, i'd love for more people to learn, just make sure it isnt a rescue before including it :) also love ur videos
When we got our hens from a battery one of them was clearly the bottom of the pecking order. The others had plucked her so thoroughly you could've roasted her without any prep, and we had to keep her in a separate makeshift coop until she recovered. She integrated fine afterwards, fortunately. Incidentally, her makeshift coop was bigger than the box the tiktoker left his seven hens in.
There are many parrot owners who take great care of their birds, but many who don't understand how much attention and mental stimulation they need, among other matters that need to be considered. There are people who still think you can just keep a parrot (or parakeet like a budgie) alone in a cage all day and it'll be happy, or they just don't care if it's happy or not because they bought it as decoration. As far as plucking goes, while plucking tends to start because of boredom/lack of attention/inability to leave the cage/need for socialization/etc., some of them are rescue birds. If they have plucked in the past, it can be difficult to get them to stop even under the best of circumstances. So whether the owner who wasn't meeting the bird's needs changes their ways or gives the bird up to someone else/it's taken by a rescue, the bird might continue to pluck. Also, sometimes they plucked themselves so badly that they can no longer grow feathers at all, so once rescued they are simply bald for the rest of their lives regardless of the quality of care. So while birds with bald patches can mean the bird is mistreated, it's best not to judge unless you know for sure that it's not a rescue bird who had started the plucking in a previous home.
Honestly, even hamsters. I recently got one and found that they really are hard to properly care for, and even if they have way more than the recommended floorspace, they will try to escape. All of those hamster horror stories are proof of that, people just don't put the time into them
Fr. It’s also sad seeing stuff like “Capybara Cafes”. Capybaras need lots of outdoor space as well as a large body of water to swim in. Keeping them cooped up in a cafe is cruel.
Half of the magic with these exotic animals is finding them in the wild and the sadness when they leave is part of the magic, and makes it more exciting when you see them again
Glad you talked about the urban rescue ranch. His videos are memey, yes, but his whole life revolves around looking after his animals. Uneducated people wanting these exotics only see the memes or the lovey-dovey snippets, they don’t see the sometimes years of socialisation it takes to get the animals comfortable enough to be friendly and snuggly, and the constant, sometimes hourly cleaning and vet bills and food requirements that sometimes require food to be shipped from another state etc etc. that these animals need. This isn’t anything new, but I immediately thought of urban rescue as a good example of exotic pet owners
I am a wildlife carer for Australian wildlife. We have to train and get permits before we can LEGALLY look after Australian wildlife in Australia. It is a condition of our permits that we cannot show our orphans and animals in social media. It disturbs me that Americans can own Australian animals when Australians cannot without strict permits and release conditions. It is gross. Thankyou for this video and awareness.
Oh my god I love that australia is actually responsive about animals, same cannot be said for america. How kangaroos and dingos ended up there makes no sense to me
Reminds me of the TH-cam reptile community where they want a new unique thing and they just collect and never meet the proper needs of the animals, bad breeding or from the wild and it’s heart breaking!
THIS‼️‼️ i try and watch people who are funny, but still are giving proper care for their reptiles. i don’t have the money nor space for anything yet, so i stick to researching (i plan on getting a crested gecko in a couple years) and watching good channels, but a lot aren’t so it’s hard.
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I’ve worked in a fox sanctuary, and the fact that her Fennec Foxes seemed to be somewhat scared of her is very telling
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omg sorry this seems so out of place but i love foxes.. what is it like working in one and how did you get the job (im 15 btw)
is there a way for me to be able to pet the foxes
🤦♀️
For me, the most telling sign is that most of these animals are social. Naturally they live in big groups. Seeing someone own 1 monkey, 2 zebras, 1 capybara, 1 meerkat. No, you're not meeting their basic needs. Getting 2 isn't enough. All of those animals live in huge herds.
Also the way she holds that monkey whilst making a video, putting on make up around a monkey, dressing up your capybara. It's obvious its all for clout.
She isn't even meeting the donkeys basic needs. They need friends.
Yeah it's all horrible! Even if she ,,rescues" them it is not rescue if they continue to live a terrible life...
I don't think she only owns one of each if she's breeding them for profit
Not to mention that makeup dust is probably toxic to the monkey.
@Nitidus the comment states 2 aren't enough, and they're right. Keeping highly social animals alone or in small groups is stressful for them.
When I was 13, I really really wanted a ferret. So I spent months and months watching care videos, adding up costs, and planning on proper places to rescue a ferret. But after a year of research (although I knew sooner) I accepted the fact I wasn’t able to take care of several ferrets. I couldn’t give them the time and space they needed to live the best lives. At the age of 14 I knew I should not get this animal because I couldn’t give it what it deserved.
These people just getting exotic animals expecting no consequences is just upsetting.
I didn't do my research, I have 6 of em living in a cat carrier🤣
@@CamelJoe_ that's not okay
You're a great Person and there should be more People like you. It is important to do proper Research and also accept if you can't take Care of a Animal properly. I hope your Situation changed since then and if not, I hope it will at some Point
@@CamelJoe_I hope my Assumption is true that you are just joking about it
I think one of ems diseased
I lived in Madagascar and lemurs are not only highly endangered but it is absolutely illegal to export them out of the island of Madagascar.
If you see a private person with a pet lemur, that animal was smuggled in or their parents were smuggled in to be breed and be sold. The only place where it is legal to have a lemur are licensed zoos, like, an actual zoo, not some crazy person’s backyard or “rolling petting zoo.”
These people are disgusting.
Exactly what I was going to say, it broke my heart seeing them in cages not in their original environment 😢😢😢😢
@@YuNa_Gchrdworse wild endangered animals that illegally kept as pet arent just lemur. There are sloth in South America, captured wild cockatoo in Indonesia, tarantula and so on. Many are die from bad shipment or quickly die in captorer hand and in buyer hand they would suffer from improper care too
is there anyone we can report it to?
@@angelaw1019this!!!
I got blocked by a monkey owner becuase I kept calling him out. It spent half it's time with it's head under a blanket rocking back and forth, the other half biting it's arm or screaming.
How did he even manage to mentally traumatize that animal so badly
@@feuerling God knows, they were in total denial of how badly they'd mess it up too. So we're their fans
My gods, that poor baby. I know very little about monkeys, but that’s an obvious sign of distress in a lot of animals. How can someone be so indifferent to an animal, _especially_ a supposedly beloved pet, suffering that much?
@@Evilgreboat an animal rescue ive been to they have a spider monkey who had gone blind from not being taken care of his previous owner had kept him in one of those tiny bird cages (which arent big enough for birds either btw) and when he started becoming aggressive they abandoned him and the rescue took him in and this year they got him surgery to make him able to see again and moved him into a big enclosure with other spider monkeys (to clarify the cage the rescue place had him in was still big enough for him to be happy just smaller than the main enclosure since he was blind and not used to having room to move around)
People think you can treat monkeys like toddlers. It’s insane.
Sadly the fact that Kamy own a dingo could actually damage the population of them rn. That dingo looks alot like a alpine dingo, which is from one of the two populations in Australia. Which are the alpine region, and the malee region. There's currently under 1000 wild dingo in Australia, and the attention she gets from owning one, could cause someone to unknowingly get one from the exotic trade, which she most likely did knowingly. 😐 hate these idiots.
HUH??? Dingos are also endangered?? 😡😡😡😡 god dammit
AAAAAAA GAD DAMMIT THESE IDIOTS
That's what I was thinking as well. Alpine dingos are critically endangered and were thought to be extinct for a while. No way should it be in someone's house and I feel like no way is it LEGALLY in her care.
I didn't know that Dingos are that extremely rare. Of course I knew before already that their Population needs Help.
Also if it is a Alpine Dingo, that makes it even worse, because I think those are the rarest.
My Theory why it passed away: she probably didn't do proper Research and fed it normal Dog Food (which they can't properly digest)
Most large exotic pets come from zoos, circuses and private collections. Depending on the size of the zoo and their participation in the zoological communities, they may or may not sell some of their exotics to those willing to buy.
The illegal pet trade mostly affects small animals that are easy to smuggle, like birds, reptiles and amphibians. Large mammalian animals are usually sold illegally only within countries of their origin and any other country bordering them, rarely for pet purposes and mostly for traditional medicine. Most people perpetrating the illegal exotic pet trade are also dirt poor people from third world countries, and not someone from Australia.
Considering all of the above it is very unlikely Dingoes will be poached for the purposes of pet trade, unless within Australia only.
What I would personally be more concerned about is not Dingoes getting poached - let’s be honest, it’s much easier to find a Dingo-looking stray puppy and sell it as a dingo, a person who is not an expert would be the none the wiser. The biggest issue is that they’ll get a wild animal with little to no experience of working with them. Most people don’t know how to deal with a dog properly, never mind an exotic animal.
I work in a wildlife sanctuary where we rescue hurt animals and rehabilitate them, that Capybara definitely seemed stressed. That poor Capybara. That made me so upset.
stressed and misrebel. aren't capybara's social (pack/heard) animals, like youd need more than one to make them feel comfortable and safe.
@@aubreymorgan9763 yes, they are like guinea pigs, they need friends in their species
I was thinking the same, I remember hearing they are similar to how hamsters need at least one other one, makes sense they're rodents and the whole thing about rodents are they are mostly really social
@@Prettywhite4awhiteguy😰 where the Hell do you get your Informations? Domesticated Hamsters are solitary and territorial. I think there's a single Species of Hamster available in the Pet Trade that can be kept together.
You should at least keep two Capybaras though (like their closest Relative, the Guinea Pig)
@@aubreymorgan9763 I live in a country that has capybaras, they are always seen in groups, they are very social.
that Kamy girl is really disturbing. There's no way she can bond with all those animals, its heart breaking to know that they are likely just rotting in a cage without proper food and stimulation, also that Cockatoo looks rather thin.
the cockatoo seems very thin
he should have a lot more weight on him
I'd be very concerned about how much attention the cockatoo is getting. She didn't show any other parrots, and cockatoos especially need tons of attention. All parrots actually need time out of the cage, and how are you gonna provide that if you've got all those other exotic animals around that could be a threat to your cockatoo? Many primates will eat a bird, and so will snakes. But even if you've got an aviary, it's not enough if the bird is lonely.
The bird could be thin because it's too depressed to eat.
@@brassbuckles yeah :( thats my thought too
you see all these channels who properly care for cockatoos and they're always sl bright
so energetic
hes not
@@emofurryboyfriendasmr They're one of the types of parrot I would not want to own due to the sheer amount of attention they need in order to thrive. People love them because they are cuddly, but don't realize you pretty much have to be a stay-at-home parrot owner or at least have someone at home at all times to keep them happy.
Let's be real, most people don't even have enough time available to keep budgies happy. I had a budgie, and even if they don't strictly need the level of attention a cockatoo does, they want it. I'd love to have a bird again, but I have a cat. Generally speaking, I think it's a bad idea to have parrots around cats or dogs, regardless of the videos you might see of them interacting. You might never have a problem, or you might have a tragedy occur before you can react to stop it. Better not to risk it.
@@brassbuckles oh yeah parrots do require near constant attention, i have one myself (sun conure!) who i got as a rescue so double thr attention! thankfully i have tje ability to spend as much time as she wants with her but its definitely not for everyone at all
and i generally don't recommend it
I swear some of these people just need to play Zoo Tycoon
YEEEAAAAHHHH good point
LOL
yeah but these idiots have enough money to play zoo tycoon in real life, that is the issue..
Or work at a rescue, I love wolfs and foxes greatly but would never ever own one so instead I rather work at a good rescue that I know is proper after doing research to supplement for that in a way that’s healthy for me and the animal
I love planet zoo
When you said “Zebra biting your arm off” I was like “Yeah… people don’t know that still?”
Zebras kill the most zookeepers compared to any other animal.
They aren’t cute little black and white horsies!
They are murder donkeys with stripes.
For real though. There’s always stories of people getting eaten by these animals too or even worse another person who isn’t even involved. Like, even domesticated animals have turned on their owners for no discernible reason. Pretty sure that you have a higher chance of this happening with a wild animal and it’s going to hurt a lot more when your pet lion tries to bite your head off than your pet Chihuahua…
Yeah, zebras are like the asshole bullies of the savannah; it's likely a personality they developed because they live in wide open spaces filled with predators that want to eat them, but the bottomline is, they will fuck you up if given the chance, so do your best to minimize those chances as much as possible by NOT BUYING ONE AS A FUCKING PET
Fax bro that’s why if one fucks with me it’s dead meat now
Horses aren’t cute when aggressive just saying
I blame trends and TikTok , Remeber the axolotle (spelt wrong I know ) because of the increase in popularity in 2021 , many people went to go buy them , but they had no experience with these endangered animals ,
living things are not your trend , and are not something to throw away when you done with them
Yup I saw an axolotl in a bowl once, it’s sad that they became trendy as they’re harder to take care of than fish (they’re more sensitive to water parameters than fish). They’re also expensive to keep because the best way to cool their tanks is using a chiller which can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on the size of tank you own (the bare minimum for them is a 20 gallon long aquarium but I’d go with a 40 breeder personally). They also are a huge commitment living 10+ years. I don’t own one right now, I’m just educated as I really do want one eventually.
@@Walmartviolist yea , Thank u for more information about the required living conditions for a axolotl and I’ve seen people on TH-cam , due to the axolotl being added to the game (even though mojang said they weren’t going to add sharks because their endangered but then added Axolotls , polar bears and sea turtles ect
Is just playing off a trend.
Just to clarify all, minius a few cases, Axolotls in the pet trade are captive bred not from the wild and, therefore, don't affect the wild population.
I once watched minecraft TH-cam that I for some reason didn't know were content farm shit, and one of them would kill their siblings minecraft axolotle, and them a real one.
That set off alarm bells, and I went to their comments to recommend resources on axolotle care.
But then it seemed this same video concept happened a lot, and not enough siblings... it was a content farm, and I had NO clue what they did to the poor things afterward.
YES! Thank you I actually own an actual axolotl! They are EXTREMELY hard to take care for. Do not underestimate how hard it is
I’m sorry but monkey AND lemur cage? Lemurs and monkeys used to live in Africa together but due to monkeys and their aggression to lemur’s they had to flee to Madagascar to live in peace. DONT PUT THEM TOGETHER!!! Gosh! There’s a reason they’re only on one island in the world.
right? literally insane to put them together in a tiny cage. they will go wild
@@shirashiraonthewall it'll end up on live leak from someone in the airbnb 😵💫
"Let's put my cougar and my lion in the same cage, they're basically the same animal
She shouldn’t put them in a cage at all, that is in no way natural. They will have a horrible living quality. They need an environment that is like the one they usually live in. If you can’t that provide that, don’t get that animal.
Was coming to comment this
"I know all about my animals but I've shoved lemurs and monkeys together because they look similar 🥰"
It’s painful how normalized this is. Esp with exotic cats I find are so widespread and memed (big floppa, etc) that people think it’s ok
Making a video on big floppa soon, it’s so sad
I'm so glad someone mentioned this. The wild cat accounts literally drive me nuts! Lynxes, servals, caracals, even mountain lions and bengal cats (exotic cat hybrids) are 100% being exploited for views and I hate that it's so popular right now.
@@shirashiraonthewallOmg yes! Every time I complainabout Big Floppa, I get a ton of backlash.
Oh my gosh I saw a short on big floppa recently and everyone in the comments were gushing over it. All I could think of was how irresponsible the owner was for having a exotic cat like that and promoting it as a good pet.
Big Floppa is litterally overfed and he is probably not given exercise
Dude I foster feral kittens and try to get them tame enough for adoption and even that can get dangerous and they're like BARELY 2 pounds.
Literally! Me and my mother used to foster squirrels and possums for a local animal rescue and that was a lot, I can't imagine having all of these animals 😭
I’m so glad you pointed out the difference between educational/rehabilitation TH-camrs and content creators who exploit animals and are not actively trained to take care of them. The educational ones, like The Urban Rescue Ranch, actively speak out against content creators who get exotic pets with no training/care for them and exploit them. There’s been many videos where Ben has spoken out about the problem of people getting exotic pets and pets in general after they see content creators with their own (uncared for) animals. Then those animals end up getting abandoned or dumped into the arms of rescuers/rehabbers. I hope more and more people continue to speak up/against these content creators who exploit animals for views. Thank you so much for your amazingly put together video.
Imagine smuggling an exotic animal in destress and then being like ‘’I’m NoT a CRimiNaL''
or then blaming that animal for the troubles
Snow seems to dislike her or be annoyed by her, their spikes are up and out, i work with hedgehogs and as soon as they smell my hand their spikes go back. I think really paying attention to the behavior of the animals will reveal a lot about how she treats them. 3:48
Yes I agree! My friend used to have a hedgehog and he would always relax his spikes when she petted him. He’d hiss at me though haha. Good little fellow. I’d just give him his space.
So does the zebra kick you until you're unalived if you can't pay for your Airbnb? Her animal exploitation is despicable.
LOL ZEBRA MAFIA id be scared tbh
Having pets even exotic in
Safe places she’s just was likes some of my favorite channels are pets and is it just me or does the fox look scared
agree
There is no ethical way to get your hands on a kinkajou. And most of them have their teeth removed when they are poached as they have a tendency to bite when they're afraid
Their fangs are remived because they are venomus.
@@alissaspafford8846 Doesn't matter, still abuse
Options for people who want "wild" animals!
Pigeons (you can adopt them from a rescue in the US, they fly, you have to work hard to earn their trust)
Rats (I don't even know if these guys were ever domesticated, but they're hecka smart)
Ferrets (good luck trying to tame their wild instincts, I tried and failed)
Snakes/turtles/tortoises (might need to do some research on how they're sourced, and they need special equipment, but 10/10 very wild animal if you like reptiles)
agreed with all of this - esp pigeons !!
What about gerbils,skunks,and degus?
@@Solomon0424 Ooh, I don't really know a lot about them, but skunks seem interesting! I always thought they were cute.
Heavy on pigeons!
Rats are AMAZING pets ^_^
I refuse to believe that Kamy and whatever team she has are able to adequately care for all of those animals. I have 4 cats and 2 dogs and it takes so much work to keep them all happy, and these are domesticated animals. Non-domesticated animals have completely different needs, not to mention the variety of needs because of the vastly different species. And there is no way that they are given enough attention to catch any medical issues early on. I wonder if they have exotic vets on call or what, because most vets are not able to treat these animals. But something tells me they don't really care.
RIGHT?!?! LIKEthat hugeeeee space??? is she doing it alone??? Im so confused cus no way if its just her and her dad or sth. if theyre not in the sanctuary business, then i doubt they are doing anything correctly.
For real. I'm disabled and have two pets and it's exhausting & financially draining.... the feed bills alone!!
I have two cats and one horse and I also cannot believe it, I mean I’m sure she hires people but even those animals (especially the horse) are just a shitton of work, I feel like it’s almost impossible to meet all of my pets needs and I only have three!
I have two dogs, and keeping them both happy and healthy is a lot. I'd love to have a cat too, but I know for a fact that would be stressful for the poor thing because one of our dogs is a Dachshund. A hunting dog with a high prey drive
If more people actually read about animals rather than buying them(or capturing/smuggling) on a whim, then the world would be a slightly better place
Right? I currently have two cats ( and 4 kittens as of a few weeks ago), and a snake, and my dog was put down last month as of old age and that just that is a lot of work and attention and its the least amount of pets I have at a time (not including the kittens, dont usually have them)
Plus, morally, having wild animals (even snakes - mine was capture bred - though) is wrong. My favorite animal in the world is foxes, but I would never own one because I dont think its morally correct. They, along with other wild animals, deserve to be free, unless they for some reason cannot survive in the wild, then they deserve to be at a professional rescue/sanctuary where they can be cared for properly with people that have the proper knowledge and skill.
As someone who lives most of my life in the Amazon rainforest, I can say that I DO NOT want any "exotic" animals as pets, the only exception is that I want a raccoon😂
racoons are soooooooooooo cute i literally want one too but they are so cheeky loool
Trash pandas! Me 2!!!! Little sweets. We have Bush babies here. Cutest things in the world!
LMAOO I love that ❤❤❤
Although like all exotic pets, they might be cute, but they're a menace. They will search everything they can find in your house and either destroy or eat it :P. One guy even rescued a racoon and she decided to make her nest in his wall.
THIS IS WHY RATS ARE THE BEST@@shirashiraonthewall They have all the amazing qualities of a racoon and they are alot more manageable:D! Sadly though they omly live for 4 years
When I saw the meerkats and the capybaras I was like "cool, they probably take really good care of them" and then I saw the zebra 💀
I mean.. weirdly enough zebra are probably the LEAST obscure animal on this ( outside of the domesticated ones - IE llama, alpaca, reindeer and of course horses ). they're weirdly more common than you think. When I lived in texas several ranchers had zebra herds lol either to make 'zonkeys' or just for fun.. and that was WELL before tiktok ect ruined the exotic pets trade. that was in the 90s lol that said, yes, they make terrible pets, many zookeepers say that african wild dogs and zebras are the two most dangerous animals at the zoo
I'm mostly worried about the Cockatoo, the Primates (hope they at least were born in Captivity and I feel bad for the Black and White Ruffed Lemur, because she seems to only have one. Don't know if they can properly integrate into a Group of Ring Tailed Lemurs. Also Primates seem to be one of the most badly treated exotic Pets) and the Reindeer (they need a cooled down Stable, which she hopefully provides and as far as I know, they also seem to require Lichen in their Diet)
Zebra are more commonly owned than you think by ranchers. They’re considered “exotic hoofstock” and are popular in states like Texas. Same with deer and antelope.
Pro tip: just pretend your regular animal is an exotic animal sometimes. I love treating my Chihuahua cross like she's a baby deer I've found in the forest, or a little fox I must protect and give snacks.
So many exotic pet owners are performative and just want to be different, you shouldn't have a pet just to seem cool, but playing pretend with ab animal you can give proper care to is the best thing to do!
as the world's biggest meerkat fan i absolutely hate hate HATE seeing people have pet meerkats. people act like they would be oooh so cute and easy to care for just because they're adorable. yes, they're cute. no, they are not suitable pets. NEVER! unless you are somehow able to care for an entire mob of them, and can give them a naturalistic enclosure that gives them the space and food they NEED, then you have NO business having them in your care!
13 years ago I was on staff of the zoo that responded to the “zanesville massacre”. Where a problematic “private zoo” released animals. I can not stress how much these people stress me out and take me right back to that time and that scene.
Holy crap. I just Googled it....what was that like for you? 😢 I can't imagine how frustrating that was and upsetting.
@@xdani_thethinkingneko it was a truly awful experience, one of the worst things I’ve ever experienced. Heart breaking, frustrating, soul crushing. What can be found on google barely scratches the surface that day; many of the animals are from the following day when they were all moved to the same spot to be counted and inventoried. The sights, the sounds…the smell. God the smells.
I tried but I was unable to continue working in a zoo environment after.
I must echo the other comment - Holy Crap.
That whole story is so freaking sad. All those poor animals. I do feel for the guy as well. Clearly he was suffering severely from his time in Vietnam.
What a mess. The lack of laws about exotic animals in some states actually blows my mind.
Oh shoot it has a name? I remember hearing about the animals being released but I was a child so didn’t think more about it. That is crazy though that he could collect that many exotic animals in the first place.
That was in my backyard lol
A lot of people will concider my pets "exotic" since its an exotic bird. I take good care of my bird, and i often make videos of them on my instagram. A lot of people in the comments have been telling me things such as "I want one too", and i thought "thats so cool", but after this video where you explained how bad it can be for uneducated people to own animals they dont know about, i will now inform them if they ask. Thank you!
its a good idea to make a whole video discouraging people from owning them, you could help a lot of birds not be put in horrible households. thank u for taking care of ur bird so well btw birds are the best!!!! id own one but i always have cats :////
@@shirashiraonthewall Thank you for the recommendation, i will probably put out a video today or tommorow.
@@shirashiraonthewalldo you think it’d be a good idea to do the same for snapping turtles? I don’t really see my channel as an informative one, more of a log I occasionally post on, but knowing how people treat turtles I don’t really want to accidentally encourage people to want them.
@@sociallyineptsnapperdo people usually mistreat turtles? I don’t know much about them. Probably a good idea to educate people for sure!
@@shirashiraonthewall turtles in general are seen as one of those ‘cutesy’ species, especially when they’re small. There are so many cases that people will get them as little babies and then someone be surprised when they grow to be adult turtles. People also mistreat aquatic turtles the same way people mistreat fish, or just treat them like they are fish. With snapping turtles it’s almost the opposite, where people get them to be cool and aggressive like people get certain types of bigger or scarier looking dogs. People then basically train them to bite and bother them until they do bite, there are also many channels of people basically forcing them to bite objects that could hurt them, like phones. (Snapping turtles are mainly aggressive out of fear, not out of aggression.) I’ve also seen so many people who own snapping turtles basically keep them in tiny barren tanks where they can barely do a small circle (including my local zoo…) just thinking ‘oh they’re snapping turtles they just want to sit around and do nothing.’ In fact, snapping turtles love to explore their tank and walk around a lot, they just also sit on one spot for long periods in-between. They’re also quite intelligent.
I'm a ball python owner and the horror stories I see from some groups I'm apart of is just jaw dropping. Tropical snakes being kept in shoeboxes, no heat or heat sources with no regulstion causing burns, living in their own filth for so long that bacteria eats away at their scales. The worst I saw was 20 layers of stuck shed from A SCIENCE TEACHER.
OMG 😭😭😭😭 why would people do that to a poor snake 🫠 I hate people
Jesus Christ that poor snake sounds like it was in complete agony. Please tell me someone did something about that poor snake.
How old is your BP? What gender and how big is the tank and such? I’m a new owner and mine has been on a food strike for a month. We’re trying again tonight, but I just want tips, thanks!
100×45×45 cm is the base for them, with a lot of hide, not a big water but enough when they molt I think. I am still learning with mine. She...is really too small for her age, Im almost thinking they put the wrong age because she is 2 years old, but still a baby
Please never forget, that if you buy exotic animals (and a lot if them are shipped illigally), you're not just buying the one that lived. During the (illegal) transport up to 50-80% die during the prozess and also the hunting (especially when we talk about fish). What u buy are highly traumatized animals and lots of them r babies, cause their mother got killed. Sometimes on purpose, cause people think babies "are cute".
It’s sad how many people only think of themselves when getting a pet, but they never think about how the animal will be affected
Part of growing up is realizing that having an exotic animal as a pet is unrealistic. Thats why I stick with plush toys :3
thats why i have cats :)))))
I treat my doggy like any exotic animal I wish I had, petting a baby deer and domesticating a wild fox with her favourite treats. It's the most ethical way and my girl enjoys the games and is a pet I can actually properly take care of
Some exotics like rabbits, birds or reptiles are fine. You just need to make sure they come from an ethical breeder or a rescue and you can properly care for it for its entire life.
@sadboiinasweater6104 How cute. As soon as I got access to my money I bought a spotted genet, and have been getting exotic pets ever since. So "unrealistic".
Unrealistic??
So thrilled to see you shout out Urban Rescue Ranch. He's so wholesome while being utterly silly and entertaining at the same time.
Ol Uncle Ben doing the good work
YES! He shows the good and the bad parts of keeping his animals.
I'm really glad someone's talking about this, the imports of giant african land snails have been really bad since their boom on tiktok- and I don't think people realise how bad they are treated in the wildlife trade. It's so bad airports literally contact me as a final chance for them.
holy shi - they are THAT popular?????
I did not expect to see you here LMAO! Sup dude! (It's Marshii :D)
I am obsessed with them until I discovered they are illegal to own and I am uneducated anyhow so I will stick to looking at videos and pictures of cute shell puppies respectively
Even if they become legal to own here
@@heirorthros3079 the trick is to look up species that are legal to own in your area as they are all cute
The fact that Kamy says "*MY* animals in regards to wild animals" is very telling.
I adore Fennec Foxes, there is a part of me that would love to have one as a pet, but I also recognise that I, like the vast majority of people would be entirely unequipped to care for one and that they are wild animals that would live a much better life in their natural habitat.
i think people who really love them know that them being wild and free is the only right way
You mean... Racing Stripes was a lie? It's dangerous to purchase a zebra for the purpose of winning major horse races?
LOOOOL it’s all a lie 🥲
i thought that movie was a fever dream, i had no idea other people watched it 😭
Zebras are extremely hard to train. There were some Attempts in the Past (there was for Example a Zebra drawn Carriage in the Past) but it seems rather unlikely that you can properly train it, especially if you have no Experience with Horses or Donkeys, but at least it is not completely impossible
@@Firestar-TV
Even if you train a zebra, they have very weak spines and are not suitable for riding for prolonged periods of time. You’ll get a slow ass horse with the temperament of a donkey that will have severe spinal issues because it was not bred for riding, but hey, at least you’ll look cool.
@@enfieldlammergeier thought so too that it's probably the Case, because it's the same with Donkeys. Zebras are more like a Pet to just have around instead of riding. But there are probably lots of other Things you could train them to do, especially to make Stuff like Hoof Examinations easier
At 12:23 , you aren’t supposed to hold frogs bare handed, you need gloves because of the oils in your hand could dry out the frogs moist skin. It’s dangerous, it just proves that some people have no clue what they’re doing.
The moment i saw they have a zebra......im like "u got to be joking me".
EVEN ZOOKEEPERS don wan to deal with them at times and yet these ppl.....be getting these zebras as if theyre horses.
Worse, something I've learned about horses is, they need to be raised around other horses. You can't just hand-raise them away from other horses and expect them to grow up and be able to be handled. If they don't learn how to be a horse and get taught manners by their mother or a similar adult horse/herd, they can become downright aggressive, and their bad behavior can also extend to other horses. What I'm getting at is, she said she bottle-raised all of those zebras. So, hard as zebras already are to handle, hers are likely to be even worse-behaved than if they'd been raised with other zebras. Meanwhile she probably thinks that because they were bottle-raised and she's their "one person" (which is not something I've heard about zebras before, though I'm not an expert. I doubt it's true, but it could be), they should be even more tame than usual. But no, the opposite is true because they never learned how to be proper zebras from other adult zebras.
@@brassbuckles wait i thought she got like 2 of them or sth at least so would that be considered "raised amongst other horses"? Omg its worser then i thought then if thats the case :(
@@akabaneaki She said she bottle-fed her zebras, and a horse or a donkey is not a zebra. The zebras needed to be raised with other zebras when they were young to benefit their psychological development. Same as horses need to be raised around horses. Being raised with/around horses or donkeys is probably better than nothing, but not the same thing.
The way I've heard it explained is that a foal learns manners from its mother/other horses in the herd. I imagine there are other psychological factors involved, similarly to how a cat or dog isn't going to behave like a normal cat or dog if it was bottle-raised by humans from a newborn.
@@brassbuckles i see that makes sense OAO Oh gosh thats disturbing to know that she did that anyways. If shes as knowledgeable about her animals as she claims, i felt that she should have known this knowledge then compared to someone like me who isn't close to the animal industry.
@@akabaneaki Considering she's keeping a cockatoo alone and shows no sign of spending sufficient time with it, has a solitary meerkat (they are social animals too), and her two fennecs are actively frightened of her (which I have NEVER seen in any video where someone owned a fennec before--in fact they're usually excited to see their owner), I think we're not seeing the entire story. I also think she might believe she knows more than she actually does.
My two cents; I'm not an expert, mind you. The foals needing to be around adult horses thing is something I learned recently from watching videos with people who know much more about horses than I do.
Bro and here I was thinking my guinea pigs were pretty exotic, and my sister and I researched them for 5 months before getting them as kids. We got them as big of a cage as possible, found a reputable rescue adoption center, and made sure to adopt a related pair so they could have social comfort without fighting. We researched hay types and safe bedding and water bottle designs and common illnesses and vitamin and mineral intake needs. We were thorough! After 8 wonderful years the older one passed. We still have her son (7 years old) and we make sure to spend time with him every day so he doesn’t get lonely. He’s too old to get him a new cage mate, so this is the best option. This is the bare minimum research and love that any pet animal deserves.
What absolutely pisses me off is Kamy saying “my” to every animal. As well as me being Australian and getting so furious at all the Australian animals she “owns”
Yeah it’s definitely gross af
As someone who has worked with rescue meerkats one of the most important things i know about them is that they need companions (up to 30 preferably). Do NOT have them as pets cause that's abuse.
Years ago I had some fun watching and ‘playing’ (holding my hand up to the glass/plexiglass so they could ‘sniff’ my hand with a few at the National Zoo in DC.
I admit that I was charmed and fell in love with how cute them were and definitely wanted one; but not enough to seek one out to adopt.
@5:10 I love how pure dingos are quite possibly spiraling towards extinction and we're just casually getting them as pets and deliberately crossing them with dogs.
That worries me in the same way wolf dogs do. People think its fine because they’re mostly dog, but then cannot handle it went the wolf genes express themselves and they end up getting rid of their animal. We do not need dingo dog crossbreeds.
I live in Australia and my dad had a pet dingo before I was born. He did so much research before getting his dingo Jedda, he made his fences taller as dingos are fantastic jumpers. He took excellent care of her and did everything right when looking after her, but unfortunately she made a run for it one day and was hit by a car. She made it to a mechanic but unfortunately passed after dad picked her up from the mechanic. Overall, if you want to look after a dingo, do it in Australia and buy from someone who breeds dingos sustainably, do extensive research before buying and take precautions.
@@kyoyameganebereznoffmy best friends family ended up getting two wolf/ dog pups this way. The person who had them previously didn’t understand what they were doing and gave them away to my friends parents (people who owned dogs from rough backgrounds and also owned horses that needed to be rehoused for various reasons). the wolves were well loved and very friendly and it turned out the female pup was pregnant so they ended up with new pups. They ended up giving the babies away after a few months to people they KNEW could handle wolf/ dog energy and danger. It has never been a thought that these animals were 100% domestic. They all knew they were still technically wild animals and needed special attention due to that. They still have one of the wolf babies, he’s an old old man now and probably still one of the sweetest dogs they ever had
@@Ashlava263Also you need a permit. They are protected wildlife.
Just don't want people thinking dingoes are common pets here.
@@becp488 I am aware of the fact that you need a permit. My dad had a dingo over 18 years ago
shoutout to urban rescue ranch, except for kevin, all my homies hate kevin
letsgooooo im a legend i watched the whole vid 😎 great video :) good on kyle for seemingly learning his lesson
from a kevin, i assumed this was me. but as i was watching this video, i grew to dislike this kevin. we as members of the international Kevin Community would like to apologize for his behavior.
@@kevincoolguy yeah its a joke about one of the animals from the urban rescue ranch, the rheas name is kevin and hes always suuuuper aggressive and bites everyone and everything haha. youre one of the good kevins 👍
rip big ounce 😭
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Fennecs seem to be really afraid of her. It's very telling. Domesticated fennecs and foxes are usually very friendly and playful towards their owner.
10:58 who dares enslaves the King Julien?
The Vesuvius brothers ❤
How dare they😡😡😡😡😡😡
If Kyle was a minor during the whole "animal sanctuary" thing, the mom is definitely the one that should be held responsible. I think Kyle seems like a person with good intentions, but bad role models. A stupid kid, if you will. At least now he is doing his part to repay his debt to the wild animals he might've inadvertently harmed.
I 100% blame the parents too, it was dumb of Kyle to not realize that what he was doing was wrong, but he was just a kid. My parents didn’t even allow me to foster regular cats until I turned 18 and was finally old enough to legally sign up to foster, because they didn’t want to deal with the responsibilities that come with it… meanwhile this dude was allowed to have a freaking capybara, and his parents didn’t even care??? It’s one of the parents’ responsibilities to control what animals their kids keep and how they treat them for sure.
Dumb rich people with too much money and too little sense
Yeah as sad as it was i'm glad he's really turned around and become more responsible towards animals now that he knows better. 100% blame it on the mom who kept fixing the "issue" with money.
@AirConditioner402 But he’s still keeping them as pets, wich is like one of the most selfish things you can do. If he was actually responsible he would rehome them to an actual sanctuary where alle these animals can life the life they would naturally live.
i’m surprised he even is allowed these animals in england, we’re really really strict on animal licenses needed to my understanding, thought this sort of thing only happens in USA
Haven’t this people seen about the chimp attack survivor? Have people not learned about getting exotic or in the wild animals is dangerous and they aren’t build or made for domestic pets like cats or dogs, etc. I prefer those pets to be in the wild or in hand of professionals.
The pinnacle of arrogance of men thinking they can disney princess their way into turning wild animals into pets... 😩
I watched every episode of fatal attraction on animal planet. They're all bad news
But have you considered: tiktok money
Haven't you considered that chimps and other animals are NOT the same?
They think they're special, that their trafficked animals love them too much to attack them. I'm so glad owning wild animals is illegal in my country, it should be illegal everywhere.
@5:10 I love how pure dingos are quite possibly spiraling towards extinction and we're just casually getting them as pets and deliberately crossing them with dogs.
There are three species, two are endangered to extinct and one is critically endangered. She's also spreading misinformation since dingos have been proven to be genetically distinct from wild dogs.
i didnt know omg :( i hate this so much
In 2017 I had a froend in Seattle who I visited. They had a Patagonian Cavvy. This poor thing was kept in a dog crate attached to a puppy play pen in their garage on a bed of straw. It wasn't socialized. Wasn't taken care pf. Was basically forgotten by the family of six in their garage, surrounded by boxes and old furniture.
As a long time animal lover, it was sickening. These people also bred rabbits in their large backyard and kept them 24/7 in suspended wire bottom cages that were maybe 4 square feet.
After that trip to Seattle, I never talked to that friend again, and he's the one who paid for my trip.
Some people do not deserve to have anything beyond a cat or dog.
Not even a cat or dog. Even regular pets would suffer tremendously under the conditions you described
@@DoritoBot9000 they should have just a plush toy, statue, anything which look like animals they want but doesnt need proper care, proper diet, and of course checking its health condition
Why didn't you report them?
1:46 YOOOOOO URBAN RESCUE RANCH (R.I.P. big ounce, died like a billion times)
Big Ounce once saved me and my whole family from a house fire 🙏😞 RIP
What is so frustrating is that even domestic animals take a lot of work and money, let alone an exotic animal. I love my cat so much and i put a lot of money, time, and attention into keeping her well fed and healthy. Its very upsetting that people are getting these animals and they are not gettinf the proper care.
Even kitties take up a lot of time and work. I love kitties to death too but they can be so naughty lmaooo
Yes! I'm putting so much time, research and money into properly caring for my bunnies and birds, meanwhile these idiots are just buying /wild animals/ without thinking
Agreed, I have two budgies and recently a pigeon, in a few years or less I’m moving to a farm and will have a aviary, in the meantimes I will be doing all the proper research so I can take care of many types of birds, however I will only take in rescues, I don’t want to support what is most often animal trafficking when it comes to larger parrots, even now two budgies already are a handful, every little thing I worry over them for, they have a large cage, natural wood perches and toys, high quality pellets and the occasional fresh greens and veggies, the little tiny bastards mean everything to me, there so expressive and all have there own little personalities, Filo my albino budgie likes to pretend to be stuck for attention, she likes to climb and fling herself around and they both tweet loudly all day, ( no there wings do not get clipped ever ) I can’t imagine shoving them in a tiny cage with crappy food and not giving the best to them.
I love that you mentioned alveus, they just got a sulcata tortoise that was given to them because the family was moving, but sulcata’s are victim to the animal trade, and that fact that she has one on top of all her other animals is very telling. 4:21
i didnt know that :( Maya is doing an amazing job!
@@shirashiraonthewallunfortunately most sulcata tortoises are taken from the wild (around 9000 each year)
Isn't that some lady who is literally an exotic pet owner herself, except she gets hers for free?
@@Maspets no! it is a non-profit pet sanctuary, where they educate and give homes to non-releasable animals!
@@cloudyskyz2237 yeah. maya talks a lot about that, their sulcata was surrendered to them
I immediately don't trust anyone who isn't properly certified to care for wild animals.
Especially ones that are:
- Dangerous, but they pet or cuddle them.
- Have very specific dietary and/or social needs.
- Having their space ignored, and/or don't have a proper enclosure.
- ENDANGERED!
Which a lot, if not all, of these wild animals fall under one of those conditions.
The endangered part isn’t really a good indicator, many pets that are endangered in the wild have a thriving captive bred population ex: axolotl, sulcata tortoise, crested gecko. They’re widely available and like axolotl and cresties they have color variations that indicates they’re generations away from the wild population. As long as you’re getting them from a reputable store or breeder and not from a shady guy that sometimes go into the forest near their wild population or is/knows an exporter that’s likely to do smuggling there’s almost no chance that you’ll be supporting poaching.
That also criteria of animals which cannot be trusted as pet, since average household cannot satisfied all of their need. Add another criteria too like cannot bred in captive setting or very difficult to do that
3:37 As a parrot owner, that cockatoo looks terrified and worse for wear.
Yeah, I’m not an expert on parrot health or anything, but that poor bird looks sick, and honestly looks starved.
The cockatoo looks thin, and stressed, I'm amazed it's not showing signs of plucking 😢
2:23
"very adorable" meanwhile Uncle Ben is violently shaking in the background😭
Thank you for mentioning Alveus. Maya and her team do an amazing job with the sanctuary and the animal education is top notch.
Really tired of these people acting like humans need to "own and domesticate" any wild animal they found cute. FFS let them be animals.
I own a Quaker parrot which is considered an exotic animal and it scares me how many people buy them with little to no education on how to care for them and how difficult they can be. They can be EXTREMELY loud, messy, and their bites (if they’re trying) will almost always draw blood. People will get them but when they realize it’s not that easy, they either neglect or get rid of them. So please please please remember if you get an exotic animal be prepared for how expensive they can end up being to care for, how time consuming it is to clean up after them, and how it’s not always easy to build a bond (and not all birds will ever like being touched that much). I love my bird so much and it pains me to see animals like him mistreated :(
Yep my moms friend had one and she has an autistic son so a loud parrot mixed with a child very sensitive to loud noises didn’t end very well. She ended up just dumping it onto her moms friend because she didn’t want it anymore and she rightfully got called out for neglecting that parrot. The living conditions were horrible for the poor thing to, it was one of those tiny finch cages you find in pet stores. Just sad. He is doing well though last I heard of him.
I love watching the wild flocks in the air chatting away.
There's a few colonies around where I live and mainly they will build the community nests on cell towers here in south florida.
What the hell is people with exotic animals wanting to make Airbnbs near the animals?!
good money tactic loooool
The rich just wanna get richer, while using exploitation to get that money
What about the poop smell?
It's because they care more about money than the animals
People will pay for a cabin next to wild animals. Cashing in on that.
I appreciate that you closed out the video by encouraging people who want to learn more about exotic animals to pursue a career in conservation/rehab. I’m currently working on getting my degree in conservation biology with the hopes of doing exactly that! If we could channel the public’s curiosity away from the temptation to purchase animals and towards the desire to actually help them, a lot of good could be done in the world.
I 100% agree! I think the tide is slowly changing
Why do they want exotic pets so bad when you can just have exotic butters?
Once I rescued a snake (Kenyan sand boa, and yes i still own her) i had 0 experience with snakes or reptiles of any kind but, surprisingly, she was quite easy to take care of, it was trial and error and I HAD to rescue her. She was severely dehydrated and very small, now, she is a chubby girl
awwwwwwww thanks for caring for her so well! i love sneks, they are so misunderstood
Of course, the rubbery sand worm! Luckily sand boas seem pretty tolerant in general, so that was a good snake to get stuck with. Im glad you rescued her
@toad5545 yeah, she is a very good girl. And, when I got her, she had lots of stuck shed, also, her name is Pumpkin :)
Awee they’re actually very cute snakes! They have such cute little eyes.
ya it's surprising how little "care" some animals acquire like all some animals need is room/space to "run" around food and water as well as "toys" and hiding/shelter spots, like my leopard gecko doesn't need to be held
I wish people would understand that just because you want an animal, that doesn't mean you could/will provide all of the needs for it - even for domestic, common pets.
Like, I would love to have ferrets, they are incredible animals and I've always loved them. But I am not in the position to take care of one. They are highly social animals, and I am not home enough time during the day to give that interaction, and I do not possess the funds to buy and maintain a diet and cage for them. So I'm not getting ferrets (for right now, at least; maybe one day in the future, but I know I wouldn't be a good fit to keep ferrets). I wish other people had the same level of consideration for the animals they want to have instead of going "but I want one :(" and getting a pet they cannot take care of.
Yes! And it’s not just exotic animals. I’ve been wanting to adopt another rat or two for years now (haven’t had a pair since middle school) but I’m a busy college student. They need as much socialization as a dog, especially if I only adopted one, and I simply couldn’t give it enough love and attention right now. When my life becomes more stable I’ll definitely adopt again though
I love bats. I wish I had bats. I'm not dumb enough to try to keep any. If I ever live somewhere with bats, I'll put up some bat houses and hope I get to see some wild ones.
bats in captivity live only 1 year, in the wild they live 25, def not cool to have them locked up
We actually put up a bat house quite a few years ago and like 3 years ago a bat finally moved in. It's so fun to watch it fly around at noon just catching insects. I can wholeheartedly recommend putting up bat houses, although it might take a while before one moves in :)
If you can help support wild populations you should be able to call them your pets and love them dearly from afar
My ex loved bats too! But instead of keeping them as pets she decided to volunteer at a bat rehabilitation facility near where we lived. My mom loves sloths but knows they would be bad pets so we (my brother and I) raised enough money for her to go to a sloth sanctuary as a volunteer for a week! There are ways to actually help your favorite animals without keeping them as pets. Especially dangerous or endangered animals.
@@YourDad-dh6fj long distance pet
The stress it must be for those poor animals is unbelievable and I hate it, hope hell has a special place for people who abuse and breed exotic animals for clout and money
Zebras do occasionally just magically show up at your door. At least one did for me a few weeks ago. A trailer transporting a few Zebras lost all of them near our home in North Bend, WA. They ran as a heard through the area, through our yard and neighbors, and were eventually rounded up.
As a Floridian, it is encouraged in our state to breed Ringed Tailed Lemurs bc they’re an endangered species. They’ll offer you the care and help if you are willing to breed them but they make sure you’re financially capable and everything to keep them.
wait wait wait, i’ve lived in Florida my entire life, ive never heard of this
@@THEnumber1.hat3r Look it up lol you have to have a permit to own one but it isn’t difficult and it is encouraged for ppl to breed them
But they’re not endangered in Florida because they’re not from there? The average person is not going to have the resources to help repopulate Madagascar or do important species research. I don’t see the point of breeding them under those circumstances.
@@kyoyameganebereznoff it helps breed them in a more controlled setting to eventually get them to breed more in larger quantities
@@zachowon But breeding isn't the only part of repopulating a species. These animals need to learn how to survive in the wild, and rehabilitators need to make sure these skills are passed to the next generation. If you breed 100 lemurs and not one knows how to evade a fossa, when those lemurs get released to Madagascar, they're dead. People who own lemurs in their comfy homes could never teach them how to survive in the wild, this is why these jobs should only be handled by professionals who have the resources and knowledge to properly repopulate these species.
I don't know when people are going to understand there's a reason that we haven't been able to domesticate zebras. They are just way too spirited, and it is dangerous to try to domesticate them. They need to be left alone, except for when a wildlife rescue is helping rehabilitate them, or potentially raise their numbers in the wild.
"I thought those stripes meant, come on give me a hug"
Lol this has me wheezing 😭
LMAO out of all the animals i have seen these people own, i dont think i would ever desire to own a zebra... like.. they dont even look cuddly idk
@@shirashiraonthewall yeah I get that they're beautiful, so I can see from that aspect....but definitely not good, or human to have as pets. Unless ofc they can't be released for some reason,which is very rare.
They are actually pretty mean to each other as well.
I feel like zebras are two horses, in the same way that dolphins are to mantees. (Like mantees, are what we thought dolphins where)A lot of people think that dolphins are really sweet, and they're not for the most part...but manatees are so sweet that they can get hurt because of it.
In an era of democratized information,there is no reason to be this dumb. Even as a teen. It starts at home. I remember my mom would do so much research before we ever got a pet, and we got typical domesticated pets... It makes me sad to think about that tiktok are you showed, who had Queen elizabeth, he probably encouraged other people to get exotic pets, that they couldn't handle and had no idea how to handle....🥺
It's not even that they are "spirited," because a horse trained using modern methods doesn't get "broken" in the old sense that you had to break its spirit. Zebras are just too reactive to easily be tamed, as a result of their natural habitat and survival instincts. They are closer relatives of donkeys than horses, and donkeys will absolutely demolish coyotes or wolves that get into the fence with them. The Asiatic wild ass and the Kiang are similarly resistant to taming or domestication.
It's not so much being "territorial" (Kamy was wrong there, because wild zebras don't really have a set "territory," they are migratory animals) or "aggressive" as "fearful" and "protective." Zebras have many predators trying to eat them in their natural habitat, so of course they're going to be less willing to tolerate a creature that's not their species approaching them. If zebras perceive a threat, they're going to either flee or fight to defend themselves and their herd. And since in captivity they are not only more used to humans, but they can't just run away across the savannah, fighting is a more likely option for them than it would be in the wild where they might be more apt to run.
@@brassbucklesZebras aren’t even really social animals the way horses are. They don’t have family groups or hierarchy, they live in a group for safety but have no issue attacking other zebras “just because.” There’s really no way to tame an animal like that, they’re one of the most dangerous zoo animals for a reason.
A guy online literally once said that “zebras are just striped donkeys on crack”. That should be enough to tell people that they can’t be pets, but people just want a pretty striped equine to show off I guess
Australia has such strict bio security laws and rules on what wildlife can be imported/exported and by who. It shits me that so many native Australian species (which are illegal for Australians to keep as pets) are bred for exploitation over in America all the damn day. Also most of all zoos in Australia have to be for conservation pretty much. Besides the hobby farm livestock petting ‘zoos’ (not actual zoos) they gotta be conservation based. All the wildlife based sanctuaries etc all have a conservationist goal.
honestly Australia does it right
To be fair, a lot of animals from North America are kept as pets overseas, although it's illegal to keep most if not all of them in most US states (I can't speak for Canada or Mexico). I've seen British people who keep striped skunks and raccoons, among others, but if you were to post videos of that here in the US, you'd better have licenses showing it was a rehab/educational animal and that you didn't just decide to take it out of the wild as a pet on a whim.
I'm not condoning it. Most of these animals make terrible pets. Some people can keep them safely and maintain their health and happiness, but most can't. I'm not 100% against exotic pets, but there need to be controls on which ones are allowed, because some can become invasive if they're kept in the wrong region, some can't reasonably be kept ethically (in terms of their health and happiness), and some are just flat-out not safe for the average person to keep. And outside of breeding programs to preserve a species that was already in captivity, endangered animals should be an obvious candidate for being illegal.
I mean something like dingus being owned by the general public is a bad idea, but something like a bearded dragon or a blue tounged skink can make a wonderful pet for owners willing to put in the effort. It's highly dependent on the species.
Same with Brazil! A person can get a deserved fine and deservingly go to jail if they keep an exotic Brazilian animal as a pet. The trouble can be bigger if it is a endangered one!
However, I see people (mostly the rich ones) from the USA keeping wild animals of our fauna as pets all the time! This is so frustrating. Our animals need to be kept in nature. 🫠
I'm in Australia, for reptiles and frogs for example you need a license. I own tree frogs but I needed a license. It's the same for native snakes. Exotics like chameleons and ball pythons are also banned here, and for a good reason. the wildlife here can be overrun easily and turn into a Florida situation. Overall I'm glad they're taking conservation seriously here. I was baffled when the tiktoker whipped out a Dingo, you can only see these dogs in remote islands (like K'gari) or in zoos!
1:49 YES I LOVE HIM! He’s very kind for helping all those animals.
Oooh very happy to discover your channel shira, that's a very nice vid!
I don't have tiktok, barely ever open instagram, so I definitively need people like you to keep me up to date on the stupid trends ^^ But most importantly, any effort to demonstrate the negative impact of such trends is extremely valuable, thank you! I hope one day the numbers are inverted, that you get the millions views these animal abusers get, while they return to the irrelevance they should've never left.
Some of these animals should not be equated to each other. Owning a mantis is nothing like owning a bobcat.
But the mantis is a protected species
i agree, there is a huge difference from owning frogs and owning a zebra
They aren’t saying they are the same thing, just that the animals are exotic or aren’t traditionally domesticated pets
@@ilovefish9458You can have an orchid mantis in the U.S, asfaik it requires a permit to own/be imported. Plenty of reptile keepers have permits because of the reptiles they keep, so do bug owners.
@@disgust4941That may be the intent, but the comparison makes it seem like owning exotic bugs is on the same level as having a whole ass pet zebra or capybara
Now I am a reptile and athropod owner. When people come to me saying I want one or I want this rare species! The first thing I bring up to them is the cost and do your reserch. I am huge on don't get a pet if you cant afford it. My crestie is rather "cheap" but over time i have dunk atleast 500+ in the 4 years of ownership. Exotics are no joke and should never be a random purchase. Just because theres minium size of enclosures or need little amount of supplies you should want your pets to thrive.
Cant even think about all the snakes ive seen kept in random plastic totes on paper that are basically neglected. Some uninformed people dont realize that keeping reptiles involves keeping a whole little microclimate. Of course snakes seem to live fine in racks, but even then they are usually cared for better than people who just thought a snake was cool and put it in a 20gal
Yes, this! I have a chameleon who is weirdly a social whore. People constantly ask how they can get one and how much.
It's amaking how quickly that desire vanishes when I mention I spend about $1000 down on enclosure, lights, and everything for setup (to be fair, it's not like you'd buy a new enclosure every week either) or that a panther chameleon from a good breeder can be around 300$Can or more depending on locale. Or vet bills. I've been pretty lucky there. Only had to take the one cham for medical attention after he tried to hump the heat lamp.
Or that chameleons are not naturally social. Bribery goes a long way. I hand feed because my chams will do so and they've long since associated me with food or coming out with food. But there are some who never get used to being around people never mind having hands in their enclosure. The youngest I have is still iffy about my existence being necessary after a year of working with him.
Or the space needed. I always go at last twice what's recommended. My monitor has his own room sized enclosure but I also let him free-roam supervised. Most people don't want to have a 5ft cankerous lizard as a roommate. A dog is always happy to see you. A lizard isn't always. And a lizard that big is fully capable of causing crippling damage to a hand or tearing off a finger if so inclined. People tend to backpedal quickly when they realize what they are seeing/experiencing when talking to me with my lizards out is just a small fraction of what goes on. It's the culmination of months to years of hard work and money, along with the experience necessary to not have too many setbacks in the relationships because of a mistake or misunderstanding on the humans part. I guarantee you anyone who has been tail-whipped by a monitor learns not to press it next time.
@@Kitsune1989 Seems like the little dude has a good life. Honestly a huge chunk of cash goes into my enclosure updates. I know a little about chamelons but for cresties as babies they do best in a 10 gallon and they recommended a 30. However I decided to go for a 50 gal I am working on right now. Also not to mention I am actively working on a bioactive and getting him a basking spot. The thing with reptile pricing is the changing of care. While just 5 years ago I was told "They're nocturnal they don't need uvb or lighting." And now I've been told there's a lot of benefits to it even for nocturnal animals. But yea one day I do wish to own a Tokay and Chameleon. Knowing very well they're not super social and the cost for their setups
@@JackOTraptern tokays≠social is the understatement of the century 🤣. My friend had tokays, these bright purple abominations. Since I didn't know what the hell they were at the time I asked if I could put my hand in there (since both of us keep things that might be inadvisable to be bit by) and my answer was "you can certainly try". That should have been my first clue. The little demon bit me, then stood there screaming at me and those things are loud. Of course I fell on my ass when the little demon started screaming what I can only guess were profanities and promptly broke my wrist. So I had to explain how a small lizard barely the size of my palm managed to send me to the ER to the nurses and the doctor, and then my mother.
Yeah care is constantly changing for reptiles as we learn more about them. Remember when it was considered okay for a beardie to be in a 20gal tank? Or when heat mats were the only thing sold in petstores and you had to get heat tape online? If you were lucky you might have been able to find a proper basking bulb and lamp. Or if you kept chameleons in anything but mesh you'd be crucified by the reptile community? Now we have so many options it's sometimes difficult to figure out which one we actually need.
My crestie was the last one on the table at an expo because he dropped his tail and nobody wanted him despite the really cool morph. He also has this weird kink for posing against the glass like a pinup girl. It's very clear he's on his last braincell and sometimes misplaces it.
Yeah, when I went to get my permit approved for the new snake I'm getting part of the process is an inspection of the enclosure. So I took the guy on a tour of the reptile floor. Apparently devoting an entire room to one of my largest chameleons (parsons, and hes exceptionally big even for the species. 4ft from nose to vent) is excessive but I don't care. I'm not putting that in some tiny little minimum requirement enclosure. Nm my actual big boys like the monitors.
I spend so much money on plants that my favourite garden store added a reptile section and I get the employee discount. 😅 Also I have a black thumb so my plants kinda get killed pretty quickly if not by me then the wear and tear of an animal who doesn't care about landscaping.
@@Kitsune1989 ya for some of my dram reptiles it like "how would I build a good enclosure we live in Canada" but the most common issue's I face with my pets is how much of a treat can I give them like they don't tell you online they only tell you how often but not the amount like I need to know how much I should cut up
I've been mildly depressed on and off lately about Otter Cafes in south east Asia and how they're being kept in environments that are just not ideal/enough for their healthy development and being fed cat kibble. Glad to see you making a video somewhat adjacent to the topic :)
Yeah, seeing otters as pets seems really weird to me. Just let them be slightly evil but also adorable in nature and in peace.
I feel like an otter cafe is super dangerous. They have sharp teeth
Fun fact: having pet axolotls is completely legal, but the ones that you can get are actually selectively bred and barely close to real wild axolotls
"look at these skittish foxes" "ah look at my aggressive meerkat" gee. i wonder WHY these animals are skittish and aggressive when they're enclosed and raised among different animals
i'm not saying they can't naturally be this way but still. most people need to go through a lengthy process to introduce two CATS to each other, there is no way you can have all these animals in one place and introduce them in a way that doesn't freak them out
Just got to Cammie’s section. She has a half alpaca half llama and as someone on an alpaca farm they are better in pairs but even better in trios. And shouldn’t be in pens with deer or near them because they carry a parasite that is not good for camelids.
I'm an exotic pet owner (reptiles and arachnids), and the lack of research these people do when purchasing and rehabbing animals makes me sick. I've seen too many people try to cohab snakes and lizards, or people who think that their arachnids dying quickly is natural (for example, my Asian forest scorpion should have a life expectancy of at least six years). The rise in popularity of ball pythons, leopard geckos, and western hognose snakes is especially concerning to me because of how frequently they're being bred, and the rise in popularity of genes like spider and enigma, which cause neurological disorders in the reptile. Don't even get me started on the Florida Burmese python problem.
Goodness, as someone who owns birds and knows a bit about them i feel very bad for that cockatoo. Those birds need LOTS of attention every day or they are very susceptible to psychological issues like plucking or mutilating 😢
With all of the animals she needs to manage i HIGHLY doubt kamys cockatoo gets any interaction at all... she probably locks it in a cage and calls it a day.
To add on, many of the animals seem very incompatible, i imagine off camera the animals have fought at least once. I hope something is done about that lady because she shouldnt own all those animals
Yeah, there’s a huge difference in needs between an adult ball python (which thrives in a proper environment and low interaction) and a cockatoo or a primate which need constant interaction.
I am concerned for the cockatoo as well, although her comments on the other animals are serious red flags. I owned budgies in the past, and they require a lot of attention--but still need much less attention than a cockatoo. And all parrots need lots of out-of-cage time and plenty of play to be at their healthiest and happiest. Cockatoos are notorious for needing tons of attention. Not only that, but I'm concerned about the parrot being 1) the only parrot she has since she clearly doesn't have enough time to devote to it with all the other animals, and 2) surrounded by so many other exotic species, including primates, that could potentially prey on or harm the cockatoo.
Fennecs that were captive-bred and bottle-raised shouldn't be skittish, they are very social and you can find videos of owners whose fennecs behave similarly to dogs. I'm not going to recommend owning one for a number of reasons, but I suspect hers aren't getting enough attention.
Most primates also require a lot of socialization, but a little-known fact is that even small ones can be dangerous due to the diseases they carry. If you are unlucky enough to have a primate that is sick, that disease can pretty easily jump to humans. Plus, primates can become aggressive as they mature, even with the best of care.
Then they have all those herd animals. Who's cleaning up after them? Who's feeding them? Are the horses getting trained and exercised regularly or are they kept as pasture pets? Are they getting regular grooming and hoof care?
Those animals are too much for one person to reasonably care for, and maybe too much for two or three people. The animals look like they're mostly in good physical health (the cockatoo might be on the scrawny side though), and their enclosures seem clean, at least in that video. I'm guessing these people have lots of money and have employees who do a significant amount of the animal care, particularly the less glamorous chores. That leaves Kamy free to do her videos and the fun parts of animal ownership, like cuddle time or bottle feeding babies.
love an alveus shoutout, truly some of the best animal content ever! the care all the staff puts into each and every animal is so special
Zebras apparently cause the most zookeeper injuries because they are so unpredictable.
Thank you for promoting Alveus they are a good non profit charity that uses there non releasable animals to inform about problems in different trades such as the pet trade
they are amazing!!! maya is a sweetheart
Yea I just don't think these tiktokers realize that those animals are not meant to be pets, they are meant to be wild or at least in a safe enclosure like at a trusting zoo or rehabilitation center
No, they’re fully aware. They just don’t care.
@@offbranddorito9668 oh :(
(illegally) collecting exotic animals like they’re pokémon🤦♀️.
I own 4 sugar gliders and I post videos but I have put a lot of time and research into them. Hours and huge cage it’s 6ft tall and 4ft wide. I get them out for hours a day. And they are very loved. They aren’t abused at all and were saved from an abusive breeder. So I feel I’m not apart of the abusive group.
Here's the funny thing about bobcats, THEY CAN NOT BE DOMESTICATED!!!! No
matter how much socialization you give them, they will always be a wild animal. A fully grown bobcat can rip an adult human to shreds.
He killed a capybara, unforgivable for killing a pure creature
The rodent died on its own. It didn't need him to kill it.
@TomikaKelly stress didnt help the poor thing being smuggled across country lines
He killed it by smuggling it. Sounds like it was already dying but no doubt smuggling it and having live in such poor conditions definitely sped the process.
I mean… farmers kill pure creatures for a living (sending them to slaughterhouses). Not saying he’s good in any way but just know there’s way worse people who get peoples support (money) everyday
Honestly I really wouldn’t consider mantises super exotic they are pretty easy to care for and are easy to breed and have tons of babies at a time like 300-400. I would kind of put them into the same category as common reptiles and amphibians. I’ve kept some before we bred some of them for pest control in our gardens but they also were fun as pets they are very trainable too but they only live for about a year but I’ve had some live for almost 3 before.
I have a friend who owns mantises
Maybe not exotic in the sense of meerkats and lemurs, but they’re still exotic since “exotic animals” really just means anything that isn’t domesticated
@@szekacsandras611 I love owning mantises and other bugs I’ve kept grasshoppers, junebugs and spiders/tarantulas before as well they are just so easy to care for and take up so little space
That one that lived for 3 years is a LEGEND
@@akabaneakimy longest lived nine months,but she was a Carolina mantis,a seasonal species.
Yeah like who believes the concerned neighbors would poison the animals they are concerned about
Animals probably caught something from the local ground they werent vaccinated against and died from that and stress. Very common in exotics and even mixing domestic species.
When you said they're serious life altering purchase I absolutely agreed - I got a praying mantis at the beginning of 2023 and fell in love with the hobby. You can buy them easily, captive bred, for between £5-£40 depending on the species with lots of care information out there for them to live their full enriched lives, nothing like what you often see on tiktok. Mine have bioactive planted enclosures that are appropriate sizes for their species and I let mine out to wander plants alot and recently bred my orchid mantises which was fascinating. I've learnt alot but my first thought with all my animals - my dog, snakes, mantises, isopods and spider is always their physical and mental wellbeing over my enjoyment or desire for any new animal also. No animal chooses who they go home with, so it's our responsibility to give them the best possible life
If you love wild animals, you don't buy them to be your prisoners. You wish them a happy and healthy life and admire them from afar in their habitat. This is heartless, selfish, childish, and criminal. And to further promote it... awful. Great video 👍
As someone who lives where there is barely any exotic anumals, it hurts to see these creatures get taken away from their enviornments.
Just a recommendation, if you ever make mroe videos like this, you can include a video of birds or other animals which seem to not feel good. I dont know about other animals, but if you see birds that have plucked out many feathers, that means they dont feel good. I'd love for you to make a video on this or just including it on a video, since i dont see many people talking about this, i'd love for more people to learn, just make sure it isnt a rescue before including it :) also love ur videos
gooood idea!
When we got our hens from a battery one of them was clearly the bottom of the pecking order. The others had plucked her so thoroughly you could've roasted her without any prep, and we had to keep her in a separate makeshift coop until she recovered. She integrated fine afterwards, fortunately.
Incidentally, her makeshift coop was bigger than the box the tiktoker left his seven hens in.
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There are many parrot owners who take great care of their birds, but many who don't understand how much attention and mental stimulation they need, among other matters that need to be considered. There are people who still think you can just keep a parrot (or parakeet like a budgie) alone in a cage all day and it'll be happy, or they just don't care if it's happy or not because they bought it as decoration.
As far as plucking goes, while plucking tends to start because of boredom/lack of attention/inability to leave the cage/need for socialization/etc., some of them are rescue birds. If they have plucked in the past, it can be difficult to get them to stop even under the best of circumstances. So whether the owner who wasn't meeting the bird's needs changes their ways or gives the bird up to someone else/it's taken by a rescue, the bird might continue to pluck. Also, sometimes they plucked themselves so badly that they can no longer grow feathers at all, so once rescued they are simply bald for the rest of their lives regardless of the quality of care. So while birds with bald patches can mean the bird is mistreated, it's best not to judge unless you know for sure that it's not a rescue bird who had started the plucking in a previous home.
Honestly, even hamsters. I recently got one and found that they really are hard to properly care for, and even if they have way more than the recommended floorspace, they will try to escape.
All of those hamster horror stories are proof of that, people just don't put the time into them
Capybaras are no rats, rather oversized guinea pigs.
They need water to swim and some capybara comrades to socialize together.
A funny nickname for capybaras is "guinea bigs"
yeah aren’t they like, basically amphibious? i swear i heard they spend half of their life in the water
Fr. It’s also sad seeing stuff like “Capybara Cafes”. Capybaras need lots of outdoor space as well as a large body of water to swim in. Keeping them cooped up in a cafe is cruel.
Half of the magic with these exotic animals is finding them in the wild and the sadness when they leave is part of the magic, and makes it more exciting when you see them again
Glad you talked about the urban rescue ranch. His videos are memey, yes, but his whole life revolves around looking after his animals. Uneducated people wanting these exotics only see the memes or the lovey-dovey snippets, they don’t see the sometimes years of socialisation it takes to get the animals comfortable enough to be friendly and snuggly, and the constant, sometimes hourly cleaning and vet bills and food requirements that sometimes require food to be shipped from another state etc etc. that these animals need. This isn’t anything new, but I immediately thought of urban rescue as a good example of exotic pet owners
I am a wildlife carer for Australian wildlife. We have to train and get permits before we can LEGALLY look after Australian wildlife in Australia.
It is a condition of our permits that we cannot show our orphans and animals in social media.
It disturbs me that Americans can own Australian animals when Australians cannot without strict permits and release conditions.
It is gross.
Thankyou for this video and awareness.
Oh my god I love that australia is actually responsive about animals, same cannot be said for america. How kangaroos and dingos ended up there makes no sense to me
I used to own 2 hedgehog , that hedgehog was trying to run away
Uncle Ben at the Urban Rescue Ranch is pure chaotic good. Especially through the covid lock down. ❤️
Reminds me of the TH-cam reptile community where they want a new unique thing and they just collect and never meet the proper needs of the animals, bad breeding or from the wild and it’s heart breaking!
Do you have examples I wanna do a video on backyard breeders
THIS‼️‼️ i try and watch people who are funny, but still are giving proper care for their reptiles. i don’t have the money nor space for anything yet, so i stick to researching (i plan on getting a crested gecko in a couple years) and watching good channels, but a lot aren’t so it’s hard.