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Originally Posted by Ianto.W.
Not realy a domestic animal, why keep these poor creatures in a 'foreign' environment, surely this practice of keeping snakes/ lizards should be stopped. "This is purely a personal opinion, not a critiscism of anyone who keeps these fine animals, ta."  |
You'd be surprised how similar to a cat that species of lizard actually is! Some people have them walking around the house, but mine preferred his basking rock under his light.
Monitor lizards like mine actually have a hard time in the wild and have to eat rotting meat to survive, and many reptiles are kept for the sake of keeping the numbers up so they dont go extinct. Alot of care is taken to ensure their domestic habitat is as close to their natural one as possible and theyre happy healthy pets.
Its kind of like how everyone used to keep pet tortoises, but now they are more expensive fewer people keep them and people keep them properly rather than in their gardens out with the rabbits.