Mostly having to do with humane treatment, but also having to do with elementary safety.
1. It's generally bad for the health of the animal in question. Not this time, perhaps, but generally, because most people don't know how to take care of the needs of a wild animal.
2. Wild animals are ... well, they're wild, and thus can be unpredictable. For some species, there's real danger in having wild animals living among humans. Even for deer (older than fawns), they could cause injury.
3. Possibility of disease: if the animal escapes back into the wild, it could take diseases with it. Similarly, bringing a wild animal in among domesticated animals could bring disease into the domesticated population. As an example, brucellosis could be spread in either direction.
There are more examples, but I think you get the point.
“There are more examples, but I think you get the point.
I get the point. Rights should be limited under the auspices of the ever-bureaucratic “just in case” scenario. Gun-grabbers like that one, too. I’d be interested to see some data where citizens keeping deer actually ever harmed anything.
I grew up down the street from a man who kept horses, cows, goats and deer without incident or complication so to me this story is another attack on individual rights.
Not a flame, I just don’t agree with you.
Please expound on how any of your points cannot be applied to domesticated animals, please.
For example, feral cats fit all of your points, but they can be successfully domesticated. If cats were left in the wild and prohibited access to human, many would die of preventable disease. And yes, a feral cat is a very wild animal and cannot be domesticated successful, but offspring can easily be turned around while small. Disease of cats can for the most part be controlled with modern medicine.
I also find it insulting that you think that man is too dumb to take care of the health issues.
1. It’s generally bad for the health of the animal in question. Not this time, perhaps, but generally, because most people don’t know how to take care of the needs of a wild animal.
...any more than many know how to care for their own children, however it is no ones business but there own in a Constitutional sense therefor I disagree with your ideas, especially the petting zoo.