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people with exotic pets are usually just giant attention whores and very douchy,

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This seems to be a strange thing to be hateful about. The term 'exotics' generally refers to anything that isn't a dog, cat, or farm animal. Most commonly rabbits, ferrets, rats, and other small furry things. After that comes birds and small lizards.

Do you have something else in mind when you think of 'exotic' pets (like that guy who had a tiger and an alligator in his Bronx apartment)?

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in my mind exotic pets are stuff like tigers and crap. Rabbits and birds and those kinda things arent exotic IMO, you can buy them at the mall, thats not very exotic [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Ill explain my hate with a dog analogy since most people know someone im about to describe. Its like the person who owns a great dane but lives in an apartment, the guy who buys an australian shepard and works 80 hour weeks, they took absolutely zero consideration for the needs of their animal when they picked one out, they picked something out entirely on the "cool factor" of it. They wanted something a little different and a little unique because they want the attention that comes when people find out they own a great dane or whatever.

There is some [censored] who lives down the street from me who owns 5 siberian huskies. I live in Phoenix, its one of the hottest cities in the entire world, and this peice of [censored] buys a bunch of dogs that were bred to live in the cold. He takes them for walks in the middle of the day, why does he do this? Cuz he loves people to ask him "wow, are those wolves??", "wow, Ive never seen a dog with blue eyes!". Doesnt matter that the dogs are probably miserable as [censored] because its hot and they are wearing giant fur coats, he doesnt care they were bred to be sled dogs and that walking around the block doesnt even come close to giving them what they need. Nope, all he cares about is that they look cool and he always wanted one. I just think its cruel and completely selfish. It annoys me when people dont treat animals like living things and give them the respect that that should warrant, instead they treat them like possesions and give little thought to their needs.

and IMO, people who keep [censored] like a wolf chained to a stake in their back yard, or a couger locked in a small cage on the back porch, just so they can say they have one, are douchebags. YOu arent steve irwin, you dont run a zoo, and they are called "wild animals" for a reason. Let them do their thing where they belong. In the wild.

Obviously its not exotic pet owners that i dislike, its any bad pet owner. It just happens to be in my experience that exotic pet owners are most often the worst ones.