When I was a little girl I remember asking my dad, more than once, if he could give me a lion and an elephant pet as a birthday present. In my imagination they would never grown up and we would have so much fun together. Of course, my dad never gave me this animals and he never explained neither that those are wild animals, who grown up a lot, who need eat a lot of food, who have a wild behavior and who must live a wild life. I got it by myself before I was 8 years old, but it seems like a lot of grown- ups still have this child fantasy. I don’t know about elephants, but lions and tigers “pets” are on sale on the internet. Unfortunately, it is so easy to find, believe me. In the e-how website they even teach you how to play with a tiger “pet”, which is incredible for me. Check this out: http://www.ehow.com/how_2049505_play-pet-tiger.html. Last weekend I went “The Big Cats Rescue” (http://www.bigcatrescue.org/), an animal sanctuary in Tampa, and saw dozens of rescued big cats (tigers, panthers, jaguars, leopards, lions) from all around USA who were abused, injured or abandoned. Please don’t try to be exotic, have a dog or a cat as a pet. And also teach your children that they can always watch animals in zoos and sanctuaries with no need to touch or have them at home.
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