Love your exotic pet

exotic pets, selection and care

<div class="text"> <h1>Exotic pets </h1> <p><img align="right" src="images/Iantiny.jpg" hspace="10" vspace="10">I think of exotic pets as fish, birds, and the rest. </p> <p>I just adore my aquarium. It is a large one and sits on a ledge between my lounge <img src="images/anthius.gif" width="79" height="56" align="left" alt="anthius">room and hallway so that it can be viewed from both areas. It house my fresh water tropical fish. What an incredible variety of fish you can get, and so <img src="images/blankframe.gif" width="220" height="220" align="left">colourful! Sedate angel fish swimming lazily back and forth, busy shoals of neon tetras darting here and there, an angry looking gourami prowling around looking for trouble.</p> <p>  </p> <p>It is a reasonably major undertaking setting up your aquarium, with its filters, heaters, aquatic plants (real ones, of course), <img align="left" src="images/premiumkoianglefish.gif" alt="premium koi anglefish">water conditioners, bacteria fighters and…there seems to be no end to it. But what a rewarding venture. A room comes to life with an aquarium, as it does with any pet in it. One significant plus with the aquarium is - no noise. If fish get upset and fractious they keep it to themselves, or, at least, you can be blissfully oblivious to their arguments. </p> <p>The same cannot be said for our feathered pets. My aviary gradually wended its way from my lounge room to the breakfast room where my <img src="images/birdonbranch.gif" width="51" height="82" align="right" alt="parrot">cockatiel and peach faces can fight and squawk away to their hearts content behind a closed door. I let Henry, my young cockatiel, out of his cage a large part of the day. He appreciates that and keeps me company with his <img src="images/bcockatoo.jpg" width="75" height="88" align="left" alt="cockatoo">endless wolf whistles while I'm tapping away at my keyboard or reading. My peachfaces can be an argumentative lot but add their wonderfully varied color to the room. I have kept budgies and finches in the past but found them messy. Cages these days are much better made and very easy to clean and makes looking after birds a relatively simple job. </p> <p>I have vivid memories of my venture into breeding guinea pigs when I was young. The rate at which they bred left me, as a child, in awe. <img align="left" src="images/guinea-pig02.gif" alt="guinea pig">They were such attractive, soft and cuddly creatures, and didn't bite….much! They tell me hamsters are less sociable and do bite. I now have a grandchild who has a bearded dragon. He has his own Australian type landscape created for him with red sand and rocks to hide behind.<img align="right" src="images/beardedgragon.gif" alt="bearded dragon"> The fun time of day is feeding time when his daily quota of crickets are deposited into his territory. The poor little blighters scuttle about in terror, but stand no chance against the lightning tongue of their casual predator. Not a source of amusement for all sorts of people, but, for little boys….. </p> <p>There are a great variety of other exotic pets other than these. A danger looms when people seek to use their choice of exotic pet as a statement of their individuality rather than choosing one to become a loved additional member of their household. T<img src="images/elephant.jpg" align="left" hspace="20" vspace="10">hey want their pet to be more exotic than the rest! Those cases often result in the animal being forced into an environment to which they are totally unsuited and are unable to adapt. Larger reptiles fall into this category and sometimes snakes. Many of these animals are not suited to a domestic environment and need to be constrained drastically for the well-being and possibly survival of themselves and their carers. </p> <p>Larger and wild animals are wonderful to observe in a zoo where they receive expert care from trained and dedicated professionals. Very few of them are suited to be taken home as pets at the whim of an adult or child who would like to observe them at closer quarters at home. </p> So be very thoughtful about choosing an exotic pet. Be sure that you are not seeking it as some sort of status symbol, and that you have the expertise and sustained patience to be able to provide a safe and loving environment for your new pet. </div>

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