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