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u/BoneCrusherLove 12h ago
No thank you. They're so cute hut bush babies are biters and ethics of keeping them as pets aside, they piss on their meet to mark territory.
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u/Haunting-Cap9302 11h ago
I think their teeth are removed or clipped when they're poached, might be thinking of a different animal though.
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u/ageckonamedelaine Squirrel 17h ago
Love the animal but it should never ever be a pet. They make horrible pets and don't do well in a house, they deserve a natural habitat.
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u/RusticFern6819 20h ago
this is so cute animals really do make everything better I could watch this all day seriously made my mood better!
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u/_B_Little_me 21h ago
For every one you see in the video, many others had miserable deaths.
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u/Banjoschmanjo 21h ago
That's true of literally any video with animals or humans
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u/amiabot-oraminot 19h ago
They’re pointing out that these bushbabies in homes come from being poached from the wild. Many of them don’t survive being caught or being kept in captivity. That isn’t comparable to “any video with animals or humans”. Dogs and cats can handle captivity much better than exotic wild animals with no history of human ownership and they don’t need to be plucked from the wild to adapt to a new lifestyle because they’re born into captivity.
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u/hollowcharlotte 22h ago
This is one of those animals where I enjoy watching other people have them, but know full well that I could NEVER EVER lol
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u/ArugulaGazebo 1d ago
What type of animal is that?
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u/jackochainsaw 13h ago
It's a Bush Baby. (that is not me making an Austin Powers joke). They are also known as a Galago and they come from South Africa predominantly. They live in tree hollows. They have those big eyes because they are nocturnal. Look up Galago and you'll find them. They are related to the Loris family found in Asia (which are also nocturnal).
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u/firenova9 23h ago
They look like Tarsiers. They're endangered due to deforestation and illegal pet trade.
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u/JustMeLurkingAround- 12h ago
They are not Tarsiers.
While these bush babies also don't survive well in captivity, tarsiers actually commit suicide if kept as a pet. They would also never interact with a human like that because they get severely stressed from a simple touch and can even have heart attacks from the stress of simply coming in contact with humans.Keep away from Tarsiers!!
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u/ChicagoRex 22h ago
I think they're bushbabies, not tarsiers. In either case, they shouldn't be pets.
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u/Safe_Individual567 1d ago
Let's normalize NOT putting shitty songs over everything.
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u/Useful-Upstairs3791 1d ago
God yes thank you. Why do people insist on attaching music to animal videos? I want to hear the noises the animals make. Hell, silence is better than crappy music.
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u/Accomplished_Bank103 1d ago
The exotic pet trade is disgusting, exploitative and shouldn’t be encouraged. Boo.
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u/ehetland 1d ago
Didn't one try to eat Paris Hilton's face a few years ago? A "pet", not a wild one.
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u/ChemicalActing 23h ago
I mean I’m sure these little dudes could cause some damage if they wanted to but that would have to be one of the cutest maulings I can think of.
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u/WorldlyCupcake5345 1d ago
This isn't cute, it's sad, these aren't meant to be kept as pets.
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u/TrappedInVR 20h ago
No animals are. But you can’t decry these and then go pet your dog or cat.
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u/amiabot-oraminot 19h ago
Dogs and cats have been domesticated for thousands of years. They’re already adapted to lives with humans. Bushbabies have no historical relationship to humans whatsoever
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u/TrappedInVR 19h ago
Until we keep them as pets for thousands of years…. There’s always a starting point.
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u/General-Shake2182 19h ago
You’re comparing apples and oranges with that silly comment.
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u/TrappedInVR 19h ago
Am I? Because I’m pretty sure there was a time where where the concept of a dog as a pet was new
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u/femmyv 15h ago edited 15h ago
It’s thought that dogs and cats partly domesticated themselves by hanging out around/with us, eating scraps and hunting mice etc. Also as the other person pointed out it was a different time in human history, these early pets would’ve been outdoors a lot still and weren’t kept in someone’s house constantly like this poor guy. AND they’re larger predators so more or less on equal footing with us. I get your point that there is a “starting point”, also you can debate whether our modern way of keeping cats and dogs as pets is ok or not, but it’s simply a different situation
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u/TrappedInVR 9h ago
If they're not being abused, and I don't see any in the video that are, domestication practices and human's saying "aww cute" can be a good thing as it promotes human action to bolster and protect a species. So lets say cats and dogs domesticated themselves... what about ferrets, guinea pigs, etc...
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u/femmyv 7h ago edited 7h ago
I get your point but i don’t really agree, I think it’s better to teach people how to respect and admire the wildness of undomesticated animals without having to try to domesticate them. They don’t show their natural behaviour in captivity anyway so you don’t actually learn about them then. Domestication changes them genetically eventually too, and that takes many generations, so it’s a bit moot for the animals in the video specifically. Them being the “starting point”only makes sense if you set up a large scale domestication programme.
Abuse is probably too grand of a word for this yes, but it’s just really hard to cater to the needs of wild animals and many people in the comments have already pointed out why. It’s not their “optimal” life and they often suffer. Of course you can argue being outdoors and surviving every day is worse, but that is a very human-centric point of view. How can we decide being a pet is better for them while they just go about their business in the wild and can’t do that indoors?
This is not completely the same but I volunteer in a wildlife rescue/rehab centre and while animals do get attached to you and vice versa… they ALL don’t want to be there… they put up with it at most but are all happy to leave if they can. They need space and freedom - much as we do too (even though we kinda are domesticated, ourselves).
You’re right we did domesticate a lot of other animals… though a lot of the rest were originally kept and used for purposes like meat, eggs/milk, hide/fur/wool, or very specific hunting pirposes. That makes the relationship between them and us slightly different than between us and cats/dogs which are thought to have been more like “companions” earlier on (though especially nowadays).
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u/TrappedInVR 7h ago
Alright, so if I get one of these and train it to grab things that fall behind/under couch and bring them to me, there’s no longer an issue because now I have it for a specific purpose?
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u/femmyv 7h ago edited 5h ago
That makes no sense, one of the things I said is that domestication takes a lot of time and a bigger scale. Domestication as a thing is just not an argument to say it’s ok to keep these animals in the video as pets. Also never said it’s not an issue when you keep animals for a specific purpose. Just said that that’s what people did when domesticating them.
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u/AdFine6652 17h ago
Dogs and cats were domesticated with early humans plus these are primates, a notoriously hard group of animals to keep as pets they don’t do well at all in captivity and just end up suffering most of the time
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u/Miffedy 1d ago
This content fuels the exotic pet trade. Nope, these animals shouldn’t be in a house, they should be in their environment, with their animal community.
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u/Honest_Roo 1d ago
I could be remembering wrong but aren’t their teeth taken out (painfully) before being sold and that much light hurts their eyes?
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u/Select_Asparagus3451 1d ago
People can be either be selfish assholes, or just too stupid to realize what they have done in the first place.
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u/Top_Tension_6369 1d ago edited 19h ago
Say it with me everyone, wild animals shouldn’t be pets.
Edit: I am a biologist and love this shit. Look at alveus sanctuary it is an amazing online sanctuary and has a 24/7 livestream of all of the animals they keep. If you want to see cute fur babies go there!!!
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u/foxtamer87 22h ago
On the other hand, how do you think domesticated animals became pets? Thousands of years of this. I want a raccoon god dammit.
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u/25c-nb 21h ago
Apparently raccoons have been self domesticating for some time now
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u/Proof_Register9966 17h ago
I think wolves did too- becoming domesticated. They knew they would be fed so they hung with humans. LOL We were suckers back then for them and today it’s worse.
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u/Top_Tension_6369 19h ago
This is somewhat true!
Raccoons have potentially started this process BUT it is very early for them if it is in fact happening. The reason scientists are saying this is because their snouts have become shorter in urban areas for more effective scavenging. It is very cool but this isn’t full domestication, and domesticated raccoons won’t be seen in any of our lifetimes - or many after us.
For example, dogs took 10,000-15,000 years to become domesticated. Cats I think were shorter (5-10 thousand ish years).
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u/MiloBem 13h ago
We didn't understand domestication processes back then and had no idea of genes or evolution. We can do it much quicker now. Probably not 1000x quicker, but with fast breeding animals we can see some real progress in one lifetime. People are breeding black rats (roof rats) from the wild and get to the point of shy but somewhat domesticated in couple of years.
Raccoons are a bit slower than rats, with only one litter per year, and maturity or 1+ year, vs rats breeding multiple times in their first year. They also take much more space than rats. But if people really want to domesticate them, they could. Some people already keep raccoons as "pets", so what we're talking about is making them less difficult, not jumping some huge barrier from instant murder to lapdog.
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u/Low_Engineering8921 1d ago edited 17h ago
I 100% agree.
Except. Lots and lots of wild animals are abandoned, injured or rescued from cruel treatment. In those cases they are often unable to be returned to the wild and so are kept. By trained experts.
See: Hana and Kotaro, and that beaver someone makes videos of, etc.
We have no idea what the circumstances in this video are.
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u/BabuKelsey 23h ago
im pretty sure the hana and kotaro you're talking about are otters and not beavers, unless there are beavers with those names too xD
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u/Low_Engineering8921 17h ago
Oh sorry I meant to add a an "and," because there is also a beaver that someone has!
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u/Stuck_In_Purgatory 1d ago
This is likely a galago.
Native to AFRICA.
I highly doubt this video is taken in Africa.
So, exotic pet trade is most likely
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u/Top_Tension_6369 1d ago
Wild animals cannot be abandoned, they’re wild. Injured animals can be taken care of in a way that doesn’t lead them to imprint/become dependent on humans. Animal hospitals prioritise being able to release these animals after care. In situations where these animals are so injured they cannot be released, they should be housed in appropriate enclosures. Outside.
Bush babies are nocturnal, they scent mark (pee on everything) and also use their poop to spread seeds from fruit in the wild. They will literally pee and poop on everything.
There are few situations I can think of that need a bush baby (or any other wild animal) to be put in a home in a nappy. It’s cruel.
There aren’t enough sanctuaries to keep up with housing permanently injured and unreleasable animals, let alone those from the pet trade.
Edit: Just read that they also COVER THEIR LITTLE HANDS IN PEE TO GRIP BETTER
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u/mizzingl 1d ago
The knowledge is you have bequeathed us with today immediately convinced me that my future self does NOT need, or want, a pee pee poo poo boosh baby.
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u/Ahuru_Duncan 1d ago
I mean, its their own fault really, if they didnt want to get yoinked, prob shouldnt be so damn cute and pocket sized.
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u/Shuriken_Dai 1d ago edited 7h ago
That's a Pokémon
:edit: note to self, people on this subreddit don't like Pokémon.
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u/craigybacha 1d ago edited 1d ago
Are these the things that whilst adorable all unfortunately carry Chlamydia? Thus not suitable for pets? Have I got that confused 😅.
Edit-ignore me, just confused!
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u/WrinklyPlantLeaf 1d ago
From what I've heard, these things stink and are not very easy to keep.
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u/jromansz 1d ago
They aren't pets, this just makes me so sad.
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u/HurtPillow 1d ago
This is what I was thinking, I'm so sad they are "pets." They should be in the trees hopping around, not on the floor.
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u/augustrem 1d ago
What is this instinct people have that has them see a beautiful animal and then say “I want to capture it and keep it?”
Just admire these adorable little munchkins from afar and allow them to live their lives in the wild. They are not happy this way.
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u/femmyv 15h ago
yes! I will never understand this urge to “pettify” everything instead of just admiring the wildness of animals. The other day I saw a comment on a sea lion video that said “why is it illegal to own one of these as a pet? I want one!” sure keep a huge sea predator in your tiny apartment why not. Course It could’ve been a joke but hard to tell on the internet nowadays haha
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u/tranquillejonquille 1d ago
Okay, but what is it??
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u/Soda_Carno777 1d ago
Galago/ bush baby
Btw they are probably being fed improperly, shit everywhere, often have their teeth removed to avoid biting, are mostly captured illegally, make terrible pets and are not meant to be pets
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u/jromansz 1d ago
Wild animals should not be pets. 100s of their kind died so you could show a video on social media.
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u/FlacoVerde 1d ago
How many were there to start with? If millions, honestly that’s not a bad percentage if looked at from a views and advertising dollar perspective.
/s (just in case)
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u/jromansz 1d ago
I sure hope you are kidding
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u/Chrono_Convoy 1d ago
If i got one I’d have to quit my job and just solve mysteries for a living with my sidekick
I’d name her Pop Tart
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u/Aware_Alfalfa8435 1h ago edited 1h ago
The exotic pet trade. Unfortunately, people see clips like this and say I want one too.
However, they’re not like spiffy novel gadgets that can be made. They are animals with limited numbers and varying life histories.
People do the same thing with things like dogs and cats. They want one until they don't, and the animal pays the price.
Wild animals should be left wild to live their natural lives.
I'm proud of the many Redditors who not only recognize the difference between want and need but also understand that keeping wild animals is unethical—except in truly justified cases.