Spiders and other animals are taken from their natural habitats and brought into people’s homes as pets. Common pets like dogs and cats can be seen as boring and for people seeking to stand out from the crowd, an exotic pet is highly sought after.

Spiders and snakes are among the more popular exotic animals and their popularity is now causing more people to consider these exotic animals as a more normal pet. Extremists are moving up a notch by seeking rarer and more exotic animals to keep as pets.

 However taking exotic wild animals from their homes in the oceans or jungles may seem attractive but is rarely in the best interests of the animal and sometimes not for the owners.

Pets are a major responsibility for anyone and the importance of treating of treating a pet with great care is often overlooked.

Buying a cute puppy for a Christmas present may seem like a good idea but when reality kicks in about the amount of time and care that must be put into a pet, the novelty soon wears off.

The responsibility of owning an exotic animal is twice as demanding as a domesticated pet and is therefore inevitable that these animals are often mistreated and even killed.

Owners of exotic pets who are unable to cope have also been known to dump the animal into the wild, with many believing sightings of a wild cat with the appearance of a panther or puma, lives on the Bodmin Moors after being dumped by its owner many years ago.