Gah! I don’t know what he is, but he’s a cutie! Is it some kinda lemur?
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Looks like a bitty kinkajou ^__^
Agreed, baby kinkajou.
Yeah it’s a kinkajou~ <33
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OMG. kinkajou popped in my head, and i’m not sure what they look like.
Kinkajou, yes sir. In fact if you google it you get this very same picture.
It’s a kinkaboop!
LOL to Anna Rexia’s comment!
LOL x 2!!!
Also know as a “honey bear.” I think Paris Hilton had one for a pet. BAD idea though. It’s an exotic animal, it deserves to be wild in it’s natural habitat! I think I heard she got bitten by it too. That’s what happens when you try to make an exotic wild animal a pet!
@Brittany: If Paris Hilton got too close to me, I might bite her too. I don’t blame that little guy! lol
Hi Brittany,
Did you know that dogs bite nearly 4.7 million people in the US annually? Dogs are considered “domestic” animals–not exotics. Almost 800,000 bites are serious enough to require medical attention. Go to this website to check out cases of canine homicide: http://www.dogbitelaw.com/PAGES/danger.htm#homicides.
I raise and keep some species of exotic pets, and have to say that I’ve never heard of a pet hedgehog or sugar glider mauling its owner (or anyone else, for that matter) to death. And instead of threatening and perhaps biting the postal carrier, as do many, many dogs, my pet skunks just run and hide.
So which do you think are perhaps better pets???
Dogs are the better pets, because they’ve been domesticated for thousands of years (and I say this despite being much more of a cat lover). “Domesticated” does not mean every dog in the world is 100% human-friendly… it just means the domestic dog as an animal in general has been manipulated to usually respond well to human attention and commands, live in a house, eat kibble (instead of requiring a specialized, expensive diet), et cetera.
Just because your sugar glider or skunk has not mauled you does not mean they are safer pets than dogs… just smaller and less able to maul a human. A-duuuuh. You can bet if sugar gliders were the size of German Shepherds there would be PLENTY of instances of sugar gliders mauling people in the world… sugar gliders are, in my experience, frequently hyperactive/easily frightened and made aggressive. Dogs – especially if purchased at a young age – are MUCH more easy to train (such as, training not to bite someone) and control.
Exotic animals need much more specialized attention, care, diets, training, and other things than dogs do… things many owners of these exotic pets do not realize they need and thus neglect to give them. Whether or not skunks, hedgehogs, sugar gliders, ferrets and others make good companions has no bearing on the ease of owning or training them, and it has to be said, dogs and cats, as well as hamsters, gerbils, mice, many types of bird, and others – domesticated animals – are just much easier to take care of.
For an example of an exotic “pet” that mauls plenty of its owners, let’s try tigers. So… dog or tiger, which do you think is perhaps the better pet?
I’m sure it’s true that the majority of pets that attack people are domestic species and not exotic, because the vast majority of pets are domestic species.
kinkajou!
My comments were basically addressing the assumption that all exotic animals are best left in the wild, not kept as pets. Actually, skunks have been kept as pets for a very long time–before it was popular or common to keep cats or dogs in the Americas, skunks were a default companion animal. Most certainly, anything with teeth can bite, no matter whether it is accustomed to being in contact with humans or not. But a skunk, for example, who is well socialized, does not present a necessarily greater threat to humans than does a “domesticated” pet. And traditionally domesticated animals, if left to their own devices and not socialized, will revert to a feral state. An unsocialized, feral cat is not something I would personally want to go up against.
Certain species of animals present a greater risk due to size and predatory instinct. I would not keep a tiger as a pet, for example, because the potential for accidental harm is too great for me (not saying that anyone else has to feel the same way). But I also think that if our house cats were the size of a tiger, we might be in trouble as well. I’ve been scratched by a house cat in the past, and it was unpleasant to say the least. All I’m implying is that to say all exotics belong in the wild and should never live with humans is a very broad, and perhaps oversimplified statement.
I have been bitten bye a dog and it hurt like HECK. Blood everywhere.In the past i have had the pleasure of raising a ferret (which are NOT exotic pets, Miss Kim) and all they do is nibble your little toes, doesn’t hurt at all. I would rather have a skunk/sugar glider/hedgehog than a huge dog. Dogs get mad easily,..sugar gliders I’m sure don’t unless you poke them or something with a stick. I’m with you Gioia.
The way I figure it, if you know what you’re doing and have training and experience with an exotic animal, that’s one thing, ,but if you don’t, a dog has to be a safer pet. And who ever heard of Paris Hilton ever doing anything that required learning? She probably leaves all animal care to the servants. Pity she thought she could drive.
http://www.exposay.com/paris-hilton-is-bit-by-pet-kinkajou-baby-luv/v/3353/
Wow. If so many people weren’t saying kinkajou, I would say it was an eye-eye, a close relative of the kinkajou but with bigger eyes and a longer tail.
My theory? An aipom in hair dye.