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(1) Have you ever dreamed of owning a tiger or a monkey? (2) Have you seen pictures of baby animals that made you want to hold and care for them? (3) There are many people who have chosen an exotic pet for reasons like they wanted to have a unique pet to show off to friends, or they thought they could train it to do a lot of amazing tricks. (4) However, wild animals do not make good pets because they need specialized care, they can become dangerous, and they can spread diseases and parasites.
(5) Caring for wild animals requires expertise. (6) Wild animals have very strict dietary, environmental, and social needs. (7) The owner must know precisely what, when, and how to feed the animal. (8) Snakes, for example, need to be removed from their living quarters and placed in another confined area to feed. (9) The reason for this is so the snake will not associate the owner's hand with its prey. (10) The food demands of a large animal like a tiger would be nearly impossible to supply. (11) Many reptiles need particular temperatures to live; therefore, heat and UV lamps must be maintained for these animals. (12) Besides strenuous nutritional and environmental needs, wild animals have specific social needs that pet owners may have no idea how to meet.
(13) Baby animals may be easy to contain and control, but they will not stay that way. (14) As the animal grows in size its strength increases too. (15) Young tiger cubs may be similar in size to a domestic house cat, but an adult, male, Bengal tiger can weigh up to 258 pounds. (16) Even a playful pat from an animal that big and strong could seriously injure a human. (17) As a baby, the pet relies on the owner to care for it. (18) When the young animal begins to develop into a mature adult, instinctive behaviors like hunting will replace the young, playful behaviors. (19) Owners typically respond to these changes by locking the animals in cages, sedating them with drugs, or getting rid of the pets.
(20) One more reason to not keep a wild animal as a pet is that wild animals often carry diseases and/or parasites. (21) Amphibians such as turtles and frogs frequently carry Salmonella, a type of bacteria that is dangerous to humans, especially children. (22) Thousands of people are infected with Salmonella every year. (23) Macque monkeys are known to carry the herpes B virus which can be fatal to humans. (24) Some small mammals (Gambian giant-pouched rats, rope squirrels, and dormice) imported for the pet trade recently infected locally captured prairie dogs with monkeypox. (25) The prairie dogs were sold and infected over a dozen humans with the monkeypox virus. (26) The infected people survived but had to endure fever, body aches, and lesions over two to four weeks. (27) Owning a wild animal as a pet is not worth the risk of catching a harmful disease.
(28) Wild animals have strict dietary, environmental, and social needs that are unreasonable for an owner to meet. (29) Wild animals have natural instincts that take over as they develop into adults. (30) These instinctive behaviors can be very threatening to people. (31) Also, wild animals are prone to have diseases and parasites that can be transmitted to humans.
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Which of the following sentences would be the best concluding statement for this paper?
A.
Summarily, exotic pets may seem attractive, but they are difficult to care for, are likely to become dangerous, and can carry diseases and parasites that are harmful to humans.
B.
In conclusion, some experts think that people obsessed with treating their pets like a human friend should deal with relationship issues that may exist with friends, and family.
C.
Finally, people should not buy exotic pets because that contributes to the exotic pet trade which takes animals from their natural environments and forces them to live in cages.
D.
Lastly, domesticated animal like cats and dogs were bred for desired traits over thousands of years and depend on humans for their food, shelter, veterinary care, and affection.
(5) Caring for wild animals requires expertise. (6) Wild animals have very strict dietary, environmental, and social needs. (7) The owner must know precisely what, when, and how to feed the animal. (8) Snakes, for example, need to be removed from their living quarters and placed in another confined area to feed. (9) The reason for this is so the snake will not associate the owner's hand with its prey. (10) The food demands of a large animal like a tiger would be nearly impossible to supply. (11) Many reptiles need particular temperatures to live; therefore, heat and UV lamps must be maintained for these animals. (12) Besides strenuous nutritional and environmental needs, wild animals have specific social needs that pet owners may have no idea how to meet.
(13) Baby animals may be easy to contain and control, but they will not stay that way. (14) As the animal grows in size its strength increases too. (15) Young tiger cubs may be similar in size to a domestic house cat, but an adult, male, Bengal tiger can weigh up to 258 pounds. (16) Even a playful pat from an animal that big and strong could seriously injure a human. (17) As a baby, the pet relies on the owner to care for it. (18) When the young animal begins to develop into a mature adult, instinctive behaviors like hunting will replace the young, playful behaviors. (19) Owners typically respond to these changes by locking the animals in cages, sedating them with drugs, or getting rid of the pets.
(20) One more reason to not keep a wild animal as a pet is that wild animals often carry diseases and/or parasites. (21) Amphibians such as turtles and frogs frequently carry Salmonella, a type of bacteria that is dangerous to humans, especially children. (22) Thousands of people are infected with Salmonella every year. (23) Macque monkeys are known to carry the herpes B virus which can be fatal to humans. (24) Some small mammals (Gambian giant-pouched rats, rope squirrels, and dormice) imported for the pet trade recently infected locally captured prairie dogs with monkeypox. (25) The prairie dogs were sold and infected over a dozen humans with the monkeypox virus. (26) The infected people survived but had to endure fever, body aches, and lesions over two to four weeks. (27) Owning a wild animal as a pet is not worth the risk of catching a harmful disease.
(28) Wild animals have strict dietary, environmental, and social needs that are unreasonable for an owner to meet. (29) Wild animals have natural instincts that take over as they develop into adults. (30) These instinctive behaviors can be very threatening to people. (31) Also, wild animals are prone to have diseases and parasites that can be transmitted to humans.
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Which of the following sentences would be the best concluding statement for this paper?
A.
Summarily, exotic pets may seem attractive, but they are difficult to care for, are likely to become dangerous, and can carry diseases and parasites that are harmful to humans.
B.
In conclusion, some experts think that people obsessed with treating their pets like a human friend should deal with relationship issues that may exist with friends, and family.
C.
Finally, people should not buy exotic pets because that contributes to the exotic pet trade which takes animals from their natural environments and forces them to live in cages.
D.
Lastly, domesticated animal like cats and dogs were bred for desired traits over thousands of years and depend on humans for their food, shelter, veterinary care, and affection.
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