Talk:Exotic pet

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I think the "Before You Purchase an Exotic Pet" section can go - it is just advice and there is nothing factual. Cribananda 05:47, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I would say transwiki to wikibooks, but I can't think of a whole book that would need this. Still, something to consider. 66.41.66.213 06:02, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Reverted "controversy". I think it states clearly: responsible care of exotic pets is possible only for few persistent hobbyists. Average person will soon end with animal cruelty. Jurek

[edit] Biased sections

Let's keep this article unbiased, or at least present BOTH sides of the issue. In addition, some of it is misinformation and should not be included in this article. Please see the NPOV page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view

Certainly the article should be kept unbiased. The correct way to do that, however, is not to remove the information you don't agree with. Exploding Boy 17:13, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV tag

Please explain your reasons for placing this tag on the page, or it will be removed. Exploding Boy 04:52, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Changes 05/07/08

This article was a mess and it still needs lots of improvement. Most of the previous references went to a site whose domain is now for sale. Others were not to the original source, but to an advocacy site (although they were accurate, I changed them to the primary source or published media account). I added a reflist, formatted the refs, and deleted most of the existing "references" since the sites either did not work or were commercial or linkspam. I added a See Also section for the one link that seemed appropriate. I added a bunch of fact tags since the referencing of this article is pretty poor. Please review these changes and make any corrections or add references or additional content. I know there have been "epidemics" of disease because of exotic pets (turtles, birds, monkey pox, etc.) so maybe those should be included. Many municipalities have banned various pets, so maybe that should be included. I have heard that the exotic pet trade is more profitable worldwide than drug smuggling, which is hard to believe, but if there is a citation for this, it would be interesting to include.Bob98133 (talk) 13:19, 7 May 2008 (UTC)