I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. Some characters portrayed and displayed by humans sometimes leave me stunned because I am left wondering what was going through their minds when they made certain decisions. I have seen many videos online of people who adopt wild animals with the intention of raising these wild animals as pets, and as pets, some people allow these wild animals to move around the house freely, like no chains, no restrictions, and then they go as far as forcing friends who fear for their lives to be playful with these animals.
We humans are one thing I am yet to understand; sometimes the things we are supposed to run away from, we head right into. What makes one think a wild animal can stop being wild even if it did not grow up in the wild? I feel it is in their DNA to be wild, and where and how they grow up has little or no effect on that. 9 out of 10 people who adopted wild animals as pets did not live to tell the story in the end; at some point that wild part of the animal always pops up. I have seen countless news stories, both on TV and on social media, about how 10 years later or 9 years later a bear or a tiger that was adopted as a pet when it was a baby grew and decided to devour the very person that adopted it.
I saw a video on Instagram last year; a woman was raising an animal called a puma, which looks like a cat in a way but is scarier than cats and even larger than cats. Left to me, I will say she was raising a lion that has not reached its full potential because that is exactly what that is. She claims to her that she and someone raising a normal cat are in the same group or category as her raising a puma, but I can put my life on the line to argue that a cat cannot pin you to the ground without you being able to get it off you, but if that puma I saw in the video pins you as an adult to the ground, you will need the strength of 10 men or more to get it off you, and she is claiming she is also training and raising a cat like every other person.
One day she posted how she took long to get back from work and her puma had devoured the chickens in the backyard, and she did not see anything wrong with that. If I were in her shoes, I'd be scared because if she was home and it got that hungry, I am sure it could go for her too without hesitation.
So if I can afford it, am I going to take a wild animal as a pet? I think with all that I have said above, you can guess my answer; it is a no, please. I am not doing such a thing even though I know that raising them as pets gives them a better environment to grow in where they can be treated right because clearly many zoos do maltreat the animals there, and growing as pets will give them a safe haven, but I feel that is a risk, and a risk that I am not willing to take at all. I am not taking any wild animal in as a pet, even though I love pets; instead, I will go for those who are known to be domesticated since time immemorial.
