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Following public safety officer and member of Outreach for Animals Tim Harrison, this documentary examines the complex issue of exotic pet ownership. Since wild animals began appearing on reality television, Harrison has seen a dramatic increase in the number of big cats, reptiles, and nonhuman primates kept in and outside people's homes. Harrison, who catches and finds new homes for abandoned, escaped, and abused animals, fights against illicit exotic...

"Whether you're already an exotic pet owner or you're thinking about becoming one, here is your one-stop guide to owning such unusual household pets as lizards, snakes, frogs, newts, spiders, and insects"--P. [4] of cover.

A look at an American subculture of raising the most dangerous animals in the world as common household pets.

Russell is worried when his pet rabbit and his pet frog return to The Wild, the forest that surrounds the house, and persuades his family to search for them.

Two cavemen, Ogg and Bob, capture a mammoth and then try to train him as a pet.

"One summer day in 1987, middle-aged desert tour guide Johnson went on his daily walk into the Mojave. Finding a small bobcat kitten, injured, orphaned, and desperately in need of help, he took it home for the night. For the next nineteen years Trooper became a part of the Johnson family and their community"--

On a ranch in the American Southwest, Sandra longs for a pet but each time she tries to adopt a wild animal, she concludes that it will be better off where it belongs.

Eccentric socialite Gertrude "Trudy" Lintz, adopts a baby gorilla into her already-bustling animal menagerie. Along with chimpanzees Maggie and Joe, Buddy gets into all kinds of hilarious monkey business and proceeds to drive everyone bananas.