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RSPCA INSPECTOR GRAEME PETTY
RSPCA & Exotic Pets
Contents
Introduction
History / work of the RSPCA
Exotic pets: welfare issues
Exotic cruelty cases
Exotic mammals
The way forward
FOUNDED IN
1824
1927 – 8 INSPECTORS
2014 – NOT ENOUGH INSPECTORS
SOME OF
THE
MANY SPECIES KEPT
WELFARE ISSUES
•Lack of knowledge about the
species
• Access to reliable advice
• Impulse buying
• Access to specialist vets
• Animals sold with no
information
• Unregulated online trade
• Wild caught still imported for
trade
WHY THE RISE IN KEEPING
EXOTIC PETS?
DANGEROUS WILD ANIMALS ACT 1976
The silent forgotten
animal in the corner
of the room!
EXOTIC MAMMALS
AS PETS
THE WAY FORWARD
REGULATE
TRADE
CARE
SHEETS
RESPONSIBLE
OWNERSHIPEND TRADE IN
WILD CAUGHT
EXOTIC
VETS
WORKING
TOGETHER