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Lovely photos, but this is not okay. Even if the owner is experienced with big cats, exotic pets are a bad idea. This is not a domesticated animal, it should not be in a house, or a car, or used for pretty photos. It should have been rehabilitated for release in its natural habitat, or if this was not possible, a nature reserve, or big-cat sanctuary.
Buying an exotic animal to keep it as a pet is not saving it, it's selfish, and even if the woman is well-meaning, it's dangerous, and possibly cruel, if she isn't as expert in caring for big cats as she claims.
I have to agree with you. Although Luna is beautiful, keeping a wild animal as a pet is never a good idea, because you can never fully domesticate them. I feel sorry for Luna.
Unfortunately, without its mother to teach it survival skills like hunting, it would have died of hunger in the wild. This was probably its best option. In the wild -yes. But there are plenty of rehabilitation-centers for cats, for example in African countries, and it works. Hunting is instinct for cats, and the rest is just training.
If you give the animal enough time to train its skills, it can be rehabilitated into the wild. The problem is that she now 'tamed' the panther and it will always consider humans to be at least interesting, if not 'friends'. For a big cat, that is dangerous! But hey, doesn't cat and dog and woman look sooo amazing together? Exactly, Luna wont stay small and cute for long. Soon she will be twice Venzas size and playing with her will become dangerous, through no fault of her own.
Someone WILL get hurt and if something happens to the woman??? Then were will Luna and Venza be??? Please place Luna in suitable care and just give your energy to your adorable Rottie Theres website that seek these cats The cat is being cared for and will end up in a sanctuary from what I'm reading. So your comments are unnecessary and she isn't keeping it as a pet. That likely means the mother, who abandoned the cub, was in a zoo too.
Luna was abandoned by it's mother and the zoo rescued her. How could that be if she was born in the zoo?? Well, I learned from original article that first that "moving zoo" asked her to take care of Luna temporary. Later they were going to sell it to some "bad owners" mb the same zoo on wheels , but girl manage to buy it herself. Bad detail: Luna and family are living in apartments and trying crowdfunding on YouTube and Instagram for buying a house.
No, comments aren't "unnecessary". Remember Sigfried and Roy? One of them, anyway. There are big dogs that sometimes go haywire and harm or kill owners. Same is true of all kinds of animals. To each their own.
I'm sure she knows the risks. Chill out and live your life and let others live theirs Boo to you and your comment. Luna was abandoned very young so she has never experienced anything but her life with a human. The cruelty would be releasing her into the wild with her trusting background. I'd agree on a general scale, but here : 1 maybe this woman is actually an expert and knows perfectly what she does, it is not well-explained in the article but I assume the zoo wouldn't have allowed her to adopt the panther if she couldn't prove her competence to do so ; 2 this panther I mean as an individual is not a wild animal and will never be.
She had barely any contact with her own mother and was never given any occasion to mimic and learn the normal behaviour of a panther in its natural environment, she must not even be aware that she is one.
She might be dangerous though, if she doesn't learn to measure her physical strength while playing for example - but she will learn, just like the rottweiler she lives with.
You don't save an animal's life for the sake of what its species is supposed to be, "wildlife" or whatsoever, you do it for the sake of one individual who deserves to live in good conditions even if this will never be a "natural" life.
Dogs know human body-language better than their own and puppies tend to be drawn to humans more than to other dogs. They are the definition of "domesticated", they are literally made to live with us. You can't compare the rotti to the panther, you just can't. You'd be paying disservice to both and misunderstand the nature of their beings.
What if kitten kills the dog or attacks the woman? What do you think will happen to kitten? This is still a panther leopard, I assume. It will never be anything BUT a wild animal. Don't kid yourself - even if you do everything for them and they might sort of care for you, it will never be anything but a wild animal.
While keeping them is legal in Michigan, parts of Detroit ban private ownership. In other states, such as New Mexico, pet gators are illegal without a permit, and in Arizona and New York, private ownership is banned. However, alligators make terrible pets. Unlike a cat or dog, which generally shows affection to the hand that feeds them — this type of affection may never occur with an alligator.
They require a specific diet and environment to thrive that are only possible in the wild. So, are alligators related to dinosaurs? Yes, both alligators and dinosaurs are archosaurs that have common ancestors from the mid-Triassic period, roughly million years ago. They share common characteristics such as laying eggs, long hind legs, and short forelimbs and teeth that are set in sockets.
In an evolutionary sense, birds are a living group of dinosaurs because they descended from the common ancestor of all dinosaurs. Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive. Are Panthers Tameable? Can you befriend a panther? The process of simply keeping wild animals in captivity does not mean the species as a whole has been domesticated, nor does it mean that a specific individual is domesticated.
Biologist, author, and University of California Los Angeles professor Jared Diamond references the elephant in captivity which has been captured from the wild for years and trained using a number of techniques, most of which utilize bullhooks electric prods, and chains. The elephant, in this case, has been tamed, not domesticated. According to Diamond, there are six restrictions wild animals need to pass in order for domestication to be attainable. Without even just one of these traits, the likelihood that domestication can occur lessens.
The restrictions Diamond believes stop animals from being domesticated are: diet, growth rate, disposition, reluctance to breed in captivity, social hierarchies, and their tendency to panic or flee. Now, consider the horse that has been domesticated for at least 5, years.
And now consider its close relative, the zebra. The process of domestication is incredibly difficult, in fact, of large mammalian species , only 14 of them are domesticated. For many species, the process of domestication has been a slow and tedious one, but not always. In the s, Russian scientist Dmitri Belyaev set up a long-term experiment to study the domestication of silver foxes.
In the past 50 years, he has managed to selectively breed silver foxes for tameness and against aggression. The results of his experiment show a number of behavioral, morphological. In short, the animals at his facility have begun to undergo a number of the changes hypothesized by Charles Darwin to occur through domestication. Foxes, after all, are nothing like lions, tigers, and bears. When we look at diet, growth rate, disposition, reluctance to breed in captivity, social hierarchies, and their tendency to panic or flee, they are somewhat close to that of a dog.
However, for larger exotic animals, the disparities between the wild animals and domesticated cats or dogs are massively vast.
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