Sloth help

[pandinus]

ok, since a lot of you are getting up on your soapboxes, let me clarify. THIS IS CONJECTURE!!!!!! I'm just curious, if i DID ever get a sloth it would be YEARS from now. i just wanted to know if it was even possible.

 

[Malhavoc's]

Was about to say Pandinus, Spiders not doing it for ya, Spider senses tingling-go slothified!-I'm actualy suprised something like a sloth would be available, humans wil lturn everything into a pet -.-

 

[ilovebugs]

Did you know that sloths have algae that grows in they're fur. And the cool part about it is that algae does not grow anywhere else in the world. And then it gets even cooler. They're is a species of moth that feeds only on that alge. Good old animal planet. It would be pretty sweet to have a sloth hangin around.

thats amazing. it's things like that that make me refuse to believe in evolution.
simply amazing.

 

[Hedorah99]

ok, since a lot of you are getting up on your soapboxes, let me clarify. THIS IS CONJECTURE!!!!!! I'm just curious, if i DID ever get a sloth it would be YEARS from now. i just wanted to know if it was even possible.

I'm not getting up on a soap box. i spent two years working at a reserve for exotic pets that people just had to have and wound up abusing one way or another. We had everything form a palm civet that was locked in a cat carrier for its whole life to a panther that could not close either eye because someone rearranged its skull with a baseball bat. Whenever I see anyone asking about the care of an exotic, even if they may only be asking rhetorically, i consider it my obligation to try and talk them out of it. Mind you, I do keep arachnids and reptiles. But I do so because i KNOW i can care for them in an appropriate manner and keep them physically healthy and mentally stimulated. well, the mentally stimulated more or less goes for some of the monitors. T's seems to care less about playing with something. but its just my two cents. i'd rather seem like a prick then see another critter get taken from the wild and into someones basement.

 

[DeadIrishD]

Hedorah I am glad that I have found someone else who many find to come off like a prick, but in reality are just blunt, and trying to save animals lives, and people from heartaches in the long run.

 

[pandinus]

I'm not getting up on a soap box. i spent two years working at a reserve for exotic pets that people just had to have and wound up abusing one way or another. We had everything form a palm civet that was locked in a cat carrier for its whole life to a panther that could not close either eye because someone rearranged its skull with a baseball bat. Whenever I see anyone asking about the care of an exotic, even if they may only be asking rhetorically, i consider it my obligation to try and talk them out of it. Mind you, I do keep arachnids and reptiles. But I do so because i KNOW i can care for them in an appropriate manner and keep them physically healthy and mentally stimulated. well, the mentally stimulated more or less goes for some of the monitors. T's seems to care less about playing with something. but its just my two cents. i'd rather seem like a prick then see another critter get taken from the wild and into someones basement.

first of all, who said that i meant you? and second of all, how would you know how responsible or considerate or compassionate i am?

 

[Hedorah99]

first of all, who said that i meant you? and second of all, how would you know how responsible or considerate or compassionate i am?

I don't, but I still have to try