Posted on 10/05/2007 9:45:59 AM PDT by DancesWithCats
By Richard Alleyne Last Updated: 11:47am BST 05/10/2007
Ever since a woman wearing a leopard skin coat was attacked by a pet lion, there have been tight controls on keeping wild animals at home.
Under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976, owners of more exotic pets have needed a special licence, even if they are relatively safe.
Now following a government review, the law has been relaxed so that a further 33 species are considered sufficiently harmless not to need controls.
New pet laws say yes to emu and no to dingo
By Richard Alleyne Last Updated: 11:47am BST 05/10/2007
Ever since a woman wearing a leopard skin coat was attacked by a pet lion, there have been tight controls on keeping wild animals at home.
Under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976, owners of more exotic pets have needed a special licence, even if they are relatively safe.
Now following a government review, the law has been relaxed so that a further 33 species are considered sufficiently harmless not to need controls.
Allowed: the Tamarin monkey is considered sufficiently harmless not to need controls Allowed: the Tamarin monkey is considered sufficiently harmless not to need controls
That means that children who were once content to play with a puppy or a guinea pig can now cuddle a sloth, emu or woolly lemur.
Under the changes, some species previously considered too risky to be kept in the home without special permission are now classed as harmless.
So, alongside rabbits and kittens, pet shops could soon be selling more exotic animals including mangrove snakes, North American porcupines and Brazilian wolf spiders.
The move comes about after the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs updated its list of animals considered to be dangerous.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Tamarin monkeys 
Clockwise from top left: a sloth, a North American porcupine, an emu, a dingo, a squirrel monkey and a binturong. Only the dingo is a new addition on the Government's forbidden list
Allowed: Guanacos have been given the thumbs up - should you have the means to buy a herd
Ping!
Is there a picture somewhere of Darwin laughing?
Remember the Aussie curse: “May your chooks turn to emus and kick your dunny down.”
Words to live by.
Good catch! You’re absolutely right. Don’t know whether an echinda is on the list but it’d make an odd children’s book title ... My Echinda Named Linda Escaped our the Winda!
I had an Australian Cattle Dog (a breed bred from dogs and dingos around 1900 or so). That’s as close to owning a dingo as I’d like!
... OUT the winda! LOL always proof ...
I have an Australian Cattle Dog/Malamute mix. That dog is as stubborn as they come and too smart for her own good. Some dogs understand words. This dog understands sentences.
They have socialized veterinary care too?
my favorite character in Napoleon Dynamite is the llama. We have an Australian Cattle Dog which has as one of it’s foundation breeds the dingo. He did want to eat our granddaughter so now we have him totally trained and controlled. So did she by the time she was 3... she was making him do tricks including ordering him out of a room to lie down and stay.
Australian Cattle dogs are truly brilliant doggies!
OMG ! The picture of that kitten could be posted in the dictionary under Major Cute!!
You know, with the right sauce I’ll bet Tamarin monkeys taste just like Buffalo chicken wings.
Your dunny moves??
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