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Old 06-11-2009, 11:38 PM
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Re: Invasive meerkats

I think the danger may come if people (not specialist exotic animal keepers but ordinary Joe Public) are influenced by certain rather popular TV ads and are able to obtain the creatures as pets (=fashion accessories) when they will be kept until the owners become bored or the animals become too much of a nuisance at which point they may be "released into the wild". Remember "ninja" turtles? Dalmation puppies thet grew into big dogs and were abandoned? Skunks which now they can't have scent glands removed are turning up in the countryside? Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs that outgrew suburban houses?
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