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#82 - keggut (02/01/2013) [-]
People must get these pets purely for novelty. They're poisonous, endangered, need lots of room to climb, do nothing but look funny and they're bred and traded by people who don't give a fuck about their welfare. Not exactly the ideal pet.

Anyone who loves creatures like these would prefer to see them in the wild instead.
#162 to #82 - Griffinwish (02/01/2013) [-]
dont think so they're safe there either..
#140 to #82 - N. Korean citizen (02/01/2013) [-]
Found the Vegan
User avatar #175 to #140 - keggut (02/02/2013) [-]
Where? I can't see.
#105 to #82 - UnoSkullmanx (02/01/2013) [-]
You realize that animals don't "enjoy" living out in the wild, right? It's a constant, 24/7 struggle to survive and eat. Captive animals have unlimited food, almost instant medical care, and complete protection from predators. Believe me, animals are fucking ecstatic about captivity.
User avatar #174 to #105 - keggut (02/02/2013) [-]
They prefer to climb in trees than in a cage. They know how to out-smart and defend themselves to natural predators than they do to say a domesticated cat. They are not pet material, they'd be happy in the wild than most human's homes could offer them.
#173 to #105 - N. Korean citizen (02/02/2013) [-]
I don't enjoy living in a polluted, crowded civilization surrounded by idiots, i don't enjoy it here. But i'd rather live where i do than anywhere else because it's what's natural to me.

Take elephants for example, in the wild they have to walk for weeks with little water and no food during the drout and some of them don't make it, but in captivity they get fresh food water and shelter every day, you'd think they'd enjoy it? Nope, because they don't have the freedom to migrate like their instinct is telling them to do, so they go stir crazy. Just like a slow loris would without being able to climb
#109 to #108 - UnoSkullmanx (02/01/2013) [-]
Yes, I'm not disagreeing that there are inhumane practices afoot. My point was that any animal would rather live in a reasonable captive environment. Reasonable does not include what is done to the lorises. Any animal can be domesticated in a reasonable and safe way; I doubt Lorises need to have their fucking teeth pulled, that's just sick.
User avatar #177 to #109 - keggut (02/02/2013) [-]
It takes years and years to domesticate a species, it's a common misconception that a baby animal can be taken from the wild and be completely domesticated and won't do the things that it has evolved millions of years to do.
#111 to #109 - mistahlegend (02/01/2013) [-]
Lorises are also nocturnal creatures. Bright lights hurt their eyes. Pretty much every single video/gif ever showing how cute they are in brightly lit areas where the loris's eyes can be hurt.

Although I do agree with you for the most part.
#85 to #82 - N. Korean citizen (02/01/2013) [-]
Anyone who loves animals would rather see any of them out in the wild, not just that one.
User avatar #86 to #85 - keggut (02/01/2013) [-]
Most animals. I wouldn't want to see a domestic dog or a hairless dumbo rat in the wild, they wouldn't last very long.
User avatar #100 to #86 - helenwheels (02/01/2013) [-]
I think a domestic dog could figure it out.
So long as it wasn't bred for the purse treatment.
User avatar #176 to #100 - keggut (02/02/2013) [-]
Nawh it'd be fucked, they'd have no idea how to hunt, wouldn't be able to compete for carrion and wouldn't get accepted into a pack.
User avatar #167 to #100 - lolzordz (02/01/2013) [-]
dogs are pack animals though so alone they wouldnt be very effective
#91 to #86 - kanatana (02/01/2013) [-]
I dunno, Rufus seems like he could handle himself pretty well.
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