Dangers Of Exotic Animals

Exotic animals can be very vicious and mean. These new animals will people more to be scared of. Just imagine walking down the street and seeing someone walking a tiger. It's everyone's opinion, but I would be scared if I were to see that. It also can help animals from becoming endangered, that's why people shouldn't be able to own exotic animals.
Owning exotic animals will give us humans a harder and new task. "Wild animals require special care that most people cannot or will not provide. Wild animals have special dietary and environmental requirements that can be inconvenient. The more unusual animals simply cannot receive the necessary diet and exercise to live a healthy and humane life (Malmberg)." Like imagine a tiger, they love to roam and a backyard isn't big enough for them to roam around. Also look at alligators they live up to 70 even 80 years old. No one would keep a pet for that long.
"The ownership of exotic pets poses a danger to human health, advocates say, and the recent incident in Zanesville, Ohio, highlights the need for strict laws to ban the possession of these animals by ordinary citizens (Rettner)." Mostly because of a the incidents that have happened. For instance "a 4-year-old boy in Texas was mauled by a pet mountain lion kept by his aunt, and hospitalized for his injuries. In September, an 80-year-old man in Ohio was attacked by a 200-pound kangaroo at an exotic animal farm. And in June, a Nebraska man in his 30s was strangled