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Only in the United States could people buy a wild pet with an exotic disease, expect the medical community to swing into immediate, superior and expensive action and then complain that their child is left with a fear of doctors and hospitals.
They play with koalas, get close to colossal Komodo dragons, communicate with gorillas, feed fruit to moon bears, release a sea turtle back into the wild, pet a newborn giraffe and meet gigantic white rhinos and rain forest ocelots for the first time.
It was all part of a zoological craze which swept the world at the end of the 1960s, following the international success of the US TV series Flipper, the story of a fictional bottlenose dolphin which was the wild pet of a marine park ranger in Florida.
Read more to find out WTF... VICE contributor Sally Slackarse has a granny living around the corner from Todd who supports his wild pet pursuits because she herself used to keep bears, crocodiles, snakes and monkeys in her house.
Among the participants who reported ever having owned a wild pet, most owned a rodent or a medium-to-large herbivore.
Although owning a wild pet had no significant effect on seropositivity, those who reported having ever owned a medium-to-large herbivore, primate, or rodent had significantly increased odds of seropositivity.
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Balharry often appeared on Scottish radio or television, sometimes with his wild pets in tow.
While Sam, a natural naturalist, tended to his wild pets (snakes, lizards, squirrels) Thea would ride her pony, Sasi, "and return only as the sun was setting, in time for dinner, without having seen a single person while riding".
Janet was told she wasn't allowed to keep her deer anymore because in this part of Canada, it is illegal to keep wild pets as animals.
As she raised three children, she encouraged them to bring home "wild birds and beasts to have and to contemplate," she wrote in her 1997 book about their animal menagerie, "The Tarantula in My Purse and 172 Other Wild Pets".
Neurologic manifestations may mimic those of infections with other viruses, including HSV-1, HSV-2, enteroviruses, and arboviruses, necessitating specific diagnostic tests for identification of the cause, particularly in patients who report recent contact with wild or pet rodents.
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