Not your Average Pet: Meet a Kinkajou in Saginaw

Custom Creatures, located at 2750 Bay Street, Suite 4, in Saginaw, offers a variety of unique pets. Kinkajous are a relative of the raccoon, live up to 30 years, a frugivore and weigh about six to eight pounds full grown. (Kaytie Boomer | MLive.com)

[@ExpensiveGun]

He said they are in the same family as lemurs, opossums, and racoons, but none of those are in the same family. Lemurs are primates, opossums are marsupials, and raccoons are carnivora.

[@cunjoz]

maybe he meant mammals, but yeah, that's too broad to be significant

[@KLK01]

According to wikipedia
“family Procyonidae related to olingos, coatis, raccoons, and the ringtail and cacomistle.”

[@carllazarraga2858]

Yeah science!

[@KC-bg1th]

@@cunjoz
Why would he mean mammals after listing a bunch of mammals that people mistake it for?

[@Anon26535]

Little known fact: not only are they related to possums, lemurs and raccoons, but also gremlins, sleep paralysis demons and true goblins, but not new world goblins, which are actually a subspecies of K-pop stan.

[@mariaacostarizzo7623]

They actually are not related to possums or lemers. They are related to raccoons and lingos. Even though they are on a fruit and sometimes insects diet they can be aggressive and should not be pets. Fun fact, they polinate flowers.

[@Madronaxyz]

I was just going to say the same.

[@bloodaonadeline8346]

ok thanks because I know Possums are marsupials and raccoons and Lemurs aren’t so what he said made no sense to me.

[@karanmohit5339]

Are they mustlelids ?

[@mariaacostarizzo7623]

@@karanmohit5339 they look like they belong in that family and I can't really say for sure but I think no. Possums and lemurs are not in that group. Mustlelids are carnivores and these little guys eat fruit

[@karanmohit5339]

@@mariaacostarizzo7623 not possums and lemurs I was talking about kinkajous

[@NoodlesLIVE]

Ahhhhh what he isn't telling u is that's a juvenile. When they get older, kinkajous will get super aggressive. Look up photos of kinkajou fangs! BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE

[@allgirrrlrider5395]

Yet you sold him to a lady with a bunch of kids

[@Torwyn11]

Uhm... Lemurs are primates. Not related to kinkajous

[@daliborjovanovic510]

Neither are possums, given that they don't even have a placenta. He just slapped together three totally unrelated mammal groups into one family XD

[@iamyouu]

at night they turn into a werewolf so you HAVE TO cage them.

[@GaryckA]

Ah yes, in the same family as 3 animals that aren't in the same family

[@TheMb214]

I want one!!!❤❤❤❤

[@farcenter]

Not lemurs. lemurs are primates. I think you mean they are related to ringtails. But not ring tailed lemurs.

[@capsrawesome0108]

They are Not supposed to be pets.

[@wraith1320]

Nothing was “supposed” to be a pet. All animals, including cats and dogs, were originally wild animals that we domesticated through deliberate, selective breeding until they had become their own species. An experiment on domestication conducted using foxes produced animals classifiable as “domesticated” in well under a century. Had we all followed your logic from the start, we wouldn’t have ANY pets-period.
Also, many common pets-hamsters, as one example-are technically wild animals. Just because something is exotic or unusual does not inherently make it unethical to keep as a pet, so long as you understand and provide for its needs. The exotic pet trade has saved entire species from extinction. Unless you actually have a rationale behind your belief that they shouldn’t be pets, get off your moralizing high horse. (P.S.: If your best argument is that they can be “aggressive” or “dangerous”… it’s time to take a long, hard look at “man’s best friend”, as dogs cause 30-50 deaths per year in the USA alone. At least I’ve never seen anyone’s free-roaming kinkajou come into my yard and kill a child.)

[@ChickenMcThiccken]

you took the words right out of my mouth LOL. @@wraith1320

[@DavidScheidler-cr4il]

Sabine ? someone likes The Mandalorian

[@Aaron-zu3xn]

you should do none of the things recommended in this video

[@Pandidolod]

Possums AND racoons?? Not related. Lol a mistake was made

[@CeilingCatMSM]

Cdnv monster

[@southwesthardypalms]

Lemurs, possums, and raccoons are COMPLETELY unrelated animals what 😂 You basically couldn’t get less closely related within the mammal family 😂 And jolly ranchers? Okay who tf is this guy.

[@hannahmosley]

They do NOT make good pets!

[@capsrawesome0108]

God Bless Them.. bad people keep hurting them.🙏💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💯😽

[@Plasticjesus504]

A lot of misinformation and they are awful pets.