many people cannot resist them and I
think I know why you guys might be one
of them but these baby animals can turn
into these adult animals yikes um
that’s better those those adult animals
are scary weren’t they well I’m here to
talk to you today about why it’s a bad
idea to own wild animals as domesticated
pets Benny did did you know many states
did you know many animals are kept in
captivity in the US in fact many states
don’t regulate the ownership of
dangerous pets at all can you guess what
Ohio’s regulations are that’s right Ohio
has very little regulations against
ownership of exotic pets so one in 2011
this guy in seen that lives in
Zanesville Ohio woke up one day and
decided you know what I’m gonna let go
all of my animals and let them be free
well this was causing frightened worried
to the citizens of zanesville ohio so
please have little choice but to shoot
and kill nearly 50 of the untamed wanted
to be pets before the injured people
because of this incident Ohio passed an
exotic animals law banning citizens from
there are three main reasons why wild
animals don’t make good pets the first
reason first let’s talk about the danger
many animals need space to roam and hunt
and your neighborhood house is not a
suitable habitat when owners realize
they cannot properly care for their
animal animal it may be impossible to
find them a new home even Zeus don’t
except for more pests and also when the
owners also went owners realized they
cannot properly care for their specific
needs it may be it okay when owners
realize they cannot properly care for
their specific needs owners or even
veterinarians cannot properly kick
owners or even veterinarians cannot
properly care for their specific needs
owners would might resort to such
measures as pulling out a monkey’s teeth
or declining a big cat second let’s talk
about the danger to the aunt second
let’s talk about the dude that the
diseases that animals can carry these
diseases are rabies tuberculosis
hepatitis Salmonella herpes B virus and
were ringworm to name just a few like
how in 2007 a turtle bought at a flea
market and given to a family as a pet
didn’t know that the turtle had
salmonella bacteria and it infected the
family’s three-week-old baby girl who
later died last but certainly not least
and perhaps most importantly while
animals can be very dangerous to the
people who come in contact with them
children are especially vulnerable wild
exotic animals often grow larger
stronger and more dangerous than
expected exceeding what humans can
manage as pets big cats monkeys and
snakes in particular have caused serious
injuries of deaths like how there have
been 768 big cat attacks since 1990 with
a hundred and forty of those being in
Ohio now there have also and how there
have also been 130 monkey attacks
speaking of which one of the most
populous account of an injury by
wild monkey is that of charla nash who
was attacked by her friends pet
chimpanzee and was seriously hurt there
have also been ever dream of owning a
snake well you should know that there
that there are 20,000 snakebite deaths
each year worldwide as you leave here
today I want you to consider as you
leave here today I want you to it so
have I convinced you to not on a wild or
as you leave here today as you leave you
today I want you to consider three
things always respect and always respect
and enjoy wild animals in their natural
habitat and do not be tempted to
purchase a wild animal finally even
small wild animals are dangerous and
remember this short little phrase wild
is not your child [Applause]