The nature is home of hundreds of thousands of species, and many are exotic and/or close to extinction. Having an exotic animal as a pet can cause animals to go endangered or close to being extinct. Although owners of exotic animals might think they are not doing anything bad, they are taking the animal’s natural habitat and replacing it with an enclosed area that they are not comfortable with. Many attacks are due to the lack of space exotic pets get. Tigers, for example, hate being in closed areas because they like roaming and finding their prey, instead of getting fed. …show more content…
Three months ago, a family from New Jersey owned a pet python. It didn’t go well for them because the daughter ended up getting strangled and the parents went to prison for 13 months. That’s just one of the 1400 attacks since the 1900’s. Nine months ago a rapper from Compton, CA stage named ‘Tyga’ owned a pet tiger, which he shows on one of his songs, attacked his trainer and caused him to lose an arm. Since then, the rappers net worth went down by 340,000 dollars. Even owning an exotic pet can lose you nearly half a million dollars and probably serious jail