RE: Should the law restrict what animals can be kept as pets?
Puppet, I totally agree with you that any kind of pet should be properly cared for. If someone does not know about the pet that they are adopting; then they should not be having that pet, regardless of whether it is a puppy or a monkey. The pet should have a home where people are knowlegable of the pet and how to care for it.
This is certainly no always the case. For example, the news reported a story from Japan (if I remember right, anyway), and these people bought what they beieved to be a Poodle, and very expensive Poodle at that.
When the got their "Poodle Pet" home, they had several problems. the main one was the poodle would not even touch any kind of dog food. It made a lot of noise when it walked across the floor, and sometimes slipped and fell when it tried to scamper across the floor.
It was not responsive at all to housetraiing.
They took the Poodle into a vetrinarian to get the noisy toenails trimmed, and find out what to do about the not-eating problem.
When the vet looked at their pet, he immediately saw the problem. the Poodle Pet was actually a lamb that had been sheared to look like a Poodle. The paws were not paws, the claws were hooves.
All the people who fell for these fake Poodles could not even tell that they did not actually have a dog !
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Should the law restrict what animals can be kept as pets?
