>ywn pet cheetah

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https://pethelpful.com/exotic-pets/about-pet-cheetahs

>>2323084
Good. The average dog owner has no business owning a dog, much less a fucking cheetah.

Sure, there's people out there that could be good cheetah owners, but 9 times out of 10, the people with "exotic" pets are just special snowflakes that didn't want a ordinary pet and didn't do their goddamned research.

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/160114-cheetahs-pets-Gulf-CITES/

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>>2323097
oh, absolutely true, I agree with you 100%
at the same time
I want a fuckin cheetah man
but the 1/10 doesn't really justify the 9/10, I agree.

I just wish my favorite species wasn't on a crash course to extinction ;--;

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/cheetahs-extinction-endangered-africa-iucn-animals-science/

>>2323105
I feel you.

I'm just bitter because I work at a pet store that specializes in parrots and I have to sell the birds to people who clearly are not going to take care of them. Kills my heart to see African greys and cockatoos going home with retarded rednecks. I don't even know where they get the money.

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>>2323113
>Kills my heart to see African greys and cockatoos going home with retarded rednecks
YIKES
i hate that too anon, fuck
thats pure fucking torture right there.

I wish there were rules and laws to protect animals from shit like that.

>>2323115
Same. We have a return policy of full refund within 2 months of purchase and we'll still take any bird we sold back any time after that for no refund and so many of the large birds do come back to us, I wonder why the store owner hasn't simply stopped selling them.
The smaller birds like the conures and cockatiels don't have anywhere near the same return rate.

Gross

Cheetahs would be the perfect hunting companion if they were domesticated. Dogs just do everything the cheetah does and more so it will never happen. Dogs are amazing versatile. Even if the cheetah was fully domestic, it wouldn't be good for anything other than an open plain hunting animal. And we already have sight hounds for that.

>keeping a large dangerous wild animal as pet
What could possibly go wrong?

>>2323175
Cheetahs aren't actually very dangerous.

>>2323185
I wouldn't have one in a house with kids, but yeah, they aren't in the same category as lions and tigers and leopards.

>>2323175
Keeping a small dangerous wild animal as pet is ok to you?
I'd rather touch a cheetah than a scorpion.

Aren't cheetahs the more docile of the large cats? They would be easier to tame than lions and tigers. I imagine because they are so fragile they try to avoid confrontation, so it wouldn't be as difficult to keep a cheetah than most other large cats

>>2323205
Feeding it would cost a fortune, but it would be worth the cost.

beautiful animal

>>2325069
**the most beautiful animal

>>2325634
***The prettiest of the kitties

Weren't they popular with rich Muslims? Did they get their cheetahs from the wild or a captive breeding stock? If they had been breeding for generations(with little to no inbreeding) makes me wonder if having them around would benefit for the future if they were far enough removed from the inbred wild genes. I assume captive ones there are just as bad if not worse though.

Too bad we couldn't have a clean line from like, egyptian times. Have they tried cross breeding subspecies of cheetahs to get more genetic diversity? We might loose pure cheetahs but we would still have cheetahs at least.

>>2326119
Yes, they were stupidly popular with ultra-rich oil family sons in the Middle East, because as >>2323097 said, they wanted to be special snowflakes.

No idea where they get them, but I doubt they're taken care of well.