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Pet shops selling thousands of dangerous or endangered crocodiles, monkeys and venomous snakesBritain’s pet shops are legally selling tens of thousands of wild animals including crocodiles, monkeys and venomous snakes and lizards as “exotic” pets, researchers have found.Most species involved are endangered species, potentially dangerous to humans or highly susceptible to serious welfare problems in captivity, an animal welfare charity said. All were “unsuitable as pets”.A Freedom of Information request to UK local authorities last year found nearly 2,000 pet traders licensed by 283 councils had permission to sell “shockingly high” numbers – an estimated 100,000 of wild animals.World Animal Protection (WAP) said licences indicated that the maximum numbers of exotic pets permitted for sale in the UK at any one time included at least 64,810 reptiles, 54,634 amphibians, 23,507 birds and 6,479 mammals. The charity said some councils failed to provide licensing information, so the numbers under-represent the true scale of wild animals for sale at pet shops.Just days ago, the government announced it planned to ban keeping primates as pets in England to prevent thousands of animals “suffering and living in misery” in people’s homes.
