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Silver Alicorn posted:OMG! They're so cute!! Can I get one as a pet?? That reminds me of something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOFq5q8Lo18 It would appear that they're either trying to send the message that red pandas have no business being pets, or trying to turn them into the next exotic pet craze.
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Tamarillo posted:Happily I live in a city that has bookable red panda close encounters. This thread has inspired me to revisit this activity. I wonder if we should start a list of zoos offering this sort of thing. I've found a number of them: Utica Zoo - Utica, NY: (they also offer a lion encounter if you have $1000 and balls large enough to count as light trucks http://uticazoo.org/visit/animal-encounters/ Ross Park Zoo - Binghamton, NY: (they say "currently unavailable" but don't elaborate on what's going on) http://www.rossparkzoo.com/get-involved/wild-encounters/ Good Zoo - Wheeling, WV: http://www.oglebay-resort.com/goodzoo/animal_encounter.html Pittsburgh Zoo - Pittsburgh, PA: (they charge way more than the others at $350) http://www.pittsburghzoo.org/Tickets/Tours
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Silver Alicorn posted:It'd be like owning a large ferret w/ special dietary needs, some alternative to fresh bamboo would be needed. Also I think they'd probably need a large outdoor enclosure to keep them safe when unattended. Dunno if they'd ever be trainable like dogs. As far as exotic mammals go, that actually doesn't sound that bad. It sounds like they'd be roughly on the level of a wallaby or coatimundi - responsibility well above most domestic animals, but quite feasible for a serious animal lover. Now that I think about it, I'm kind of surprised there's never been any serious push go get red pandas into the pet trade. I mean, we were fully aware of their existence back when mail-order monkeys and alligators were being sold out of comic books.
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May 1, 2015 02:53
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It looks like the red panda encounter at the Chattanooga Zoo is back on: http://www.chattzoo.org/visit/wild-encounters The only problem is that Chattanooga is nowhere near anything else of interest to me. At least it's closer than New Zealand.
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Oct 20, 2015 01:22
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When I first saw that, my first thought was "my grandmother's cat is worse than that".
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Rexxed posted:Some red pandas seem to like pets, but only kind of. Well, not enough people have tried fully socializing them to get any clear data there. This sounds like something which demands extensive research - research I'd happily volunteer to be a part of.
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