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About When Owning An Exotic Pet Goes Wrong

Delve into the controversial world of exotic animal ownership, witnessing the allure and peril of keeping predators as pets first hand. The Predator Pets marathon explores compelling cases, from suburban backyards housing Bengal tigers to families facing tragedy with Burmese pythons, and from wolf-dog hybrids turning wild to dingoes struggling between their wild instincts and domestic life. Viewers will witness a Florida man’s dangerous bond with an alligator, and the chaos of a capuchin monkey wreaking havoc in a suburban home. From: Predator Pets Content licensed by Cineflix International Media to Little Dot Studios

When Owning An Exotic Pet Goes Wrong is presented by Real Wild. Its listed runtime is 135 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.

As a society documentary, When Owning An Exotic Pet Goes Wrong uses owning, exotic, wrong as its central frame. Social documentaries work best as invitations to examine systems through lived experience. Distinguish individual testimony from wider claims, and consider which institutions, incentives and inequalities shape the choices shown.

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Title
When Owning An Exotic Pet Goes Wrong
Category
Society
Runtime
135 minutes
Language
English
Publisher
Real Wild

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