Welcome Inexperienced Monsters! Subsequently, once I say that the animals on this listing-which are all not legal in some states-are “not a threat to public security,” I’m not suggesting that they pose zero menace to individuals like a stuffed animal does, or that an individual ought to leave babies alone with these animals and go to sleep in the adjacent room, however that they pose the identical menace, or far less, than a typical dog or cat.

Even within the states where unique-pet possession is banned, individuals break the legislation,” says Adam Roberts of Born Free USA, who keeps a working database of deaths and accidents attributed to unique-pet ownership: In Texas a 4-year-previous mauled by a mountain lion his aunt saved as a pet, in Connecticut a fifty five-12 months-previous girl’s face completely disfigured by her friend’s lifelong pet chimpanzee, in Ohio an eighty-year-old man attacked by a 200-pound kangaroo, in Nebraska a 34-year-outdated man strangled to death by his pet snake.

Unfortunately, zoos are solely prepared to care for a certain variety of animals and those that may’t be accommodated are steadily euthanized Sanctuaries are often already at capacity as a result of monumental captive unique animal epidemic …