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To: TaxRelief
The subject here is not a domestically-bred Gambian Rat, if it was it would not be carrying monkeypox or infecting other domestically-bred pets. Someone felt a need to take this Rat out Africa and bring it here, why?

I also feel that people need to leave all wild species of animals alone and stop trying to domesticate them. People need to stop breeding these animals that were meant to be wild and if they did then the novelty of having new exotic animal breds to domesticate would end. Hedgehogs, Prairie Dogs, Gambian Rats, and so forth should have never been made into domestic pets to begin with. No animal should be forced to become domesticated because someone thinks it cool to have a pet other than a typical pet as in a cat or dog. Only in the last 25 years or so have these types of exotic animals been domesticated and sold in pet shops. Hedgehogs came pets when the Sonic Hedgehog video game came out. The fad of owning a hedgehog has probably worn out and now people are buying Prairie Dogs. You cannot release these domestically-bred animals back into the wild, but people can stop breeding them and buying them to end the cycle of these animals being kept as pets.
128 posted on 06/08/2003 7:19:07 PM PDT by stlnative (Were it not for the braveā€¦there'd be no land of the free.)
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To: brigette
But I will breed hedgehogs and offer them as pets. They are the perfect pet and the risk of a domestically bred hedgehog is minute.
129 posted on 06/08/2003 7:22:34 PM PDT by TaxRelief
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