An Inside Look at the Exotic Animal Trade: Profiles by VICE
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- Опубликовано: 2 фев 2025
- Wildlife trafficking is estimated to be a $19 billion per year global business, surpassed only by black-market sales and trafficking of drugs, humans, and firearms.
In the United States, regulation of private ownership of exotic animals is determined by each state, allowing for loopholes and oversight. Animals are bought and traded through auctions, backyard breeders, illicit online sales and more. The industry is growing right in our backyards.
VICE travels to Ohio to rescue a cougar, then to Texas for an exotic livestock auction and undercover visit to a gaming ranch where the animals are sold and hunted for up to $15,000 a piece.
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It's crazy that in North Carolina I can legally own a lion or tiger in most areas but I can't own a squirrel.
no crazy would be wanting to own a squirrel
But they would like to have a lion. Gtfo
Tray Muse 😂 that sucks
Tray Muse ... SICK PLACE!! *.*
Tray Muse do you WANT to own a squirrel?
"There are more wild cats in private hands than in wildlife' this sentence broke me
In Texas in particular... FUCKING NOT OK.
Johnny Muerte they’re wildcat rescues
That got to me too but I wonder if it was hyperbole
@@juxsoundz4822 😪 you sound tough
@@C.U.N.Tahiti, it is not hyperbole
Big cats are gorgeous. In the wild.
HotPokket
They are gorgeous in captivity too but i dont think you should get one
Holy shit I just killed one
Godamn PLAN ? What
Or owned 😍
They don't tell you that 100 years ago over 100,000 tigers lived in the wild. Now there are less than 4000 in their natural habitat.
Not at all
@Pasquale H Gelardi lol stfu don’t bring politics into this
Wow i dont care and neither do any of you.
Blame the human race to ruin everything
Started with Adam and Eve ..smh
Those animals in cages act just like humans in jail, pacing back and forth because they are going insane due to isolation...
+421greenbean - This is a very common behavior to a wide range of animals that are kept confined in cages as pets. You'll even see it at the zoo, and they have just about the largest and best quality enclosures that you'll ever see.
i would think we just have a bit more control of are selfs
humans commit crime and go to jail....animals are innocent :(
they could've been framed and/or not guilty
I mean if you're referring to the animals at the rescue facility, its likely just ptsd. As he said, a lot of them were kept as pets and circus animals (in small confined spaces) so even with all the added room, other animals to play with, they are just scarred and can't act like normal animals.
Declawing a housecat is bad enough...Declawing a Magnificent Apex Predator like a Cougar is a crime against Mother Earth.
+HYPER MASTIA Removing any necessary part from an animal IS an actual crime here in he UK.The only body parts legally removable by a qualified veterinarian are the sex organs (testes and uterus/ovaries) in a normal spay/neuter procedure. Only puppies which will go on to become working dogs working jobs which may occur a tail injury are allowed to have their tail docked. This was only banned about 8-10 years ago so you do see dogs with docked tails still, but when compared to their fully tailed counterparts from the same breeds, the tail, there as it should be, looks far better breed by breed. Nice to see ear cropping go too, now pinscher breeds look normal again.
HYPER MASTIA humanity is declawed
HYPER MASTIA fucking peta person shut the fuck up
@I AM BATHMAN
You're so fucking clueless its a waste of my time to investigate why you would type some stupid shit like that.
Instead I implore you for the sake of the human race to buy an annual pass to your closest zoo and hop over the fence into the nearest cougar/puma enclosure.
Specifically those felids by the way; the panthera genus and cheetahs are more likely to make your noble sacrifice painful and prolonged.
Much love and godspeed!
Oephi I wouldnt bother with him, he just wants to be edgy and go against the grain, even though saying something like that makes absolutely no sense
If you want to know someone’s true character... look at how they treat children, the elderly, and animals. This should tell you all you need to know about who they really are.
The success of any country is judged by how their animals are treated
Very true
I hate to be that guy, but I kind of disagree with this. I understand the sentiment behind it, but I have known murderers and rapists who took good care of their dog's, and I've known people who take good care of their kid's but would shoot a dog or cat on sight with no regard for their life
Not true at all.
Richard Kuklisnki was a great father
@@indridcold9510 another prime example! The Iceman was an interesting character, and I can't help but like him to be honest
When it comes to wild animals that guy is absolutely right about the ego thing, humans wanna feel powerful.
💯
The way that dude just walks up to the lion and casually says ''Hey'' makes this video 20x better.
When he was talking about how these exotic fleines can kill you and all that and then all of a sudden they cut to him peacefully saying " hi parker " to the lion 😂😂
Hold hold up, what? There are more big cats in captivity than there in the wild?! That is crazy.
thats exactly what i said to myself when i heard that. shit is a god damn shame
Yup China have one of the biggest tiger farm, to kill em for their fur/paws/tooth. Thousands of em... Sad but true :'(
There are more tigers in Texas than in the wild.
How would they know? They can't track every single big cat in the world
@@ViperGBTwitchdaftrajy -- They go off of reported numbers.
This is disgusting the way humans treat animals is absolutely horrible
We're driving animals to extinction soon they'll be nothing and I think people need to wake up and realise this
You need to realize that you've done nothing, so just complaining ain't gonna work. SMH basic white bitches these days...
+Joe A. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
+Joe A. "White bitches" lol
+Sophie E you are so stupid
+leif Wienbreyer aw thanks sm xxx
"it's an ego thing they want the most venomous, dangerous animals" ** shows ball python
I was just about to comment that 🤣🤣🤣
I thought the same thing! Lol.
I know right😂
Yeah---dangerous animals as in ball pythons.
The big cats are so beautiful and adorable, but they should be most loved by staying in the wild not in a cage.
Jarid Gaming ABSOFUCKINLUTLY
still in the wild so that you can hunt and kill them for profit u mean
Cats and dogs and snakes etc should be in a wild 2 dumb ass
True but you can't put these animals that are in captivity back into the wild they have no natural instinct. But yes this is wrong but the big cat rescue was doing the right thing
@Yellow White no people like you are REALLY stupid
this makes me feel guilty about my Triceratops.
julian hernandez stupid 😂😂😂😂
@@djtanikgotbeatz how
same with my t rex ;(
What is Triceratops?
@@Wonderful81 a dinosaur
The more I get to know people the more I love my dog.
Jose Amaya
Yes ,I agree ☺️
And the more i get to know makes me love my lizard even more
im gonna make a fridge magnet with that statement on it
Big cat: approaches fence rubbing and purring.
This guy: HI... HI...
My housecat looks like a panther. That's good enough for me.
Nico Vargas I keep telling mine she will grow up to b a lioness :)
my cat looks like a puma but fatter LMAO
Lmaoooooo when I read this the first time I thought you said my husband looks like a panther! LMFAOOOOO😂😂🤣🤣
Cats 🐈 can pick up a Parasite 🦠 from a Mouse 🐁 that human pick up that’s makes you a bit more fearless.. Facts
This is why we have dogs and cats. Their domestic and not nearly as dangerous. Owning wild animals like this is just ridiculous and unnecessary
Guns are dangerous too but only a fool would suggest banning those too. If the buyers are willing to take the risk, so be it. They aren't making you buy one.
+Anguinus Vir difference is exotic animals aren't suit for being out of their environment
+Anguinus Vir lol wtf? Guns and exotic pets are in two completely different spectrums. What kind of idiot relates owning a gun to the immorality of owning living, breathing, thinking, and feeling wild creatures
I own a mink, its a wild animal, but it trusts me, and i trust it, i take it hunting for rats and rabbits all the time
Phoenix Phalanges cats and dogs could turn on their owner just as fast as any wild animal
"Hi let's play....oh you broke..."
That guy looked like he has seen some shit.
@@BeckyMatthew32572 man looks like he walked through hell and not all of him came back yet
Yeah, that's what he said no need to comment it..
🤣
Joe Taft is Joe Exotic in a different universe, where he decides to rescue cats instead of purely profiting off of them
If one of the big cats die from natural causes, is it morally ethical for him to sell the skin and use the money from the sale to cover financial costs of operating his rescue park ???
@@originalunoriginal4055 is that what he does ?
@@lai239 I guess
“Hi. I like you, let’s play.. oh you broke” 😂
It took me reading this comment to understand how he meant it. Lol
These animals are beautiful but who in their right mind who want want one these wtf
why would you lock up or want to kill such a beautiful thing !!!
Yes, Horrible !!!
+Marcus Camp I get a thrill out of killing a deer!
I dont understand why you would want a tiger stalking you in your own home -___-
+Eboney Nicole These animals should stay where they belong..... IN THE WILD!!! Stupid People
+Kendall Clark VOTE ISIS TO BE IN CONTROL
"the most venomous snake out there"... shows a ball python lmfaoooo
marriedlarry LMAO THATS WHAT I WAS THINKING LIKE UHHHMM
I was thinking just the same ,a medium sized ball python in a tub lol
Hagop D That was a non venomous water snake
Hagop D black mambas aren’t black, that snake isn’t even close to a mamba
i have 2 of those extremely venomous ball pythons they have killed 2 gfs and 3 friends all together from bites.... i kinda feel guilty now
Exotic Feline Rescue is one of my favorite places on earth! Joe Taft, the owner, is truly an amazing human being I met many years ago. His love and respect for all his "cats" is a beautiful site to see. Seeing him with Parker (lion at the beginning) still melts my heart as both Parker and his brother Tucker are unfortunately deceased.
Who's running it now?
You can see the cats respect him too, it's really cool to see. Must've been a hell what those beautiful animals been through.
@@MichaelOnRockyTopthe cats are deceased not the man
I hate my world.
Me too. People making stupid videos with no situational consistency drive me crazy.
Me too. I'd kill every one of these fucking oxygen thieves if I could.
Lemme guess you had a cheese burger this month aswell
no
Jason Forester
wut
Bruh that old guy is like the perfect voice actor for a horror film
Seima Onami i was thinking the same thing!
He gave me chills 😂
Ikr he even looks creepy and sounds when the video started
He could play the Brother of Jigsaw when they make another remake.. and it was him, the mastermind... all along.
i love these Vice documentaries, shedding light on subjects that need to be dealt with
That cougar was so scared. Thats exactly how my house cat looks when shes scared and does the exact same thing trying to get away. Not fighting just scared trying to run and get away and hide. This is beyond sad.
Jesus this is deeply depressing to watch but a lesson in life. How cruel and manipulating we are as a species. Hunt to put food on the table, not to stick a head above the fireplace. I never feel bad when I hear a sports shooting trip goes bad due to a human casualty.
Listen buddy. I don't like some people too, but if we're on a ship with the last survivors from the Apocalypse. Your ass is going overboard.
If every human being was Mother Teresa, we would have died out during the Stone Age.
@@deuscoromat742 but we’re not thanks to mother theresa’s like, so there’s no reason to support selfish despicable greed when you got better chance to thrive if you respect life.
@@mothgirlx6707 That's literally the point. There is a such thing as an acceptable level of greed that human beings would have never lived without. Of course there are limits but you need to understand what you're battling millions of years of cutthroat evolution. That being said, I don't want animals to suffer any more than you do, but I play for team human until the risks outweigh the rewards.
@@deuscoromat742 I feel we’re beyond that though (at least in the first world), we should be evolving beyond that primitive state. That would be depressing if we’re stuck or reverse evolution, we’d be doomed - both as humans and for our animal wildlife.
@@mothgirlx6707 And that is wherein the issue lies. We are more technologically advanced than our monkey brains and that won't change by virtue of living in a first world nation.
When will people realize that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH in terms of trying to own EVERYTHING?
NEVER . It is obvious and simple ...people will end up eating each other . The future obvious .
davazno1some pepole do and have been doing it ever sense the beginning of time
yeah,kinda reminded me how disney keep owing everything for the sake of being the top of the world or some sh*t like that.. smh
This is sickening. Animals are not OBJECTS, they have minds and brains and can feel PAIN to. This needs to be stopped.
And what are you doing about it? Other than preaching on a RUclips video that is.
Jotaro Kujo he never said it was “ok” smartass. He is simply saying that stating somethings wrong on a RUclips comments section isn’t going to do much of anything.
@@notforgotten3685 r u doing anything other than criticising others in a comment thread that is made for COMMENTS ? ur even worse. Idiots... Now days...
must be vegan? :D
@@notforgotten3685 gotem
@11:55, How is putting a cougar in a 8'x15' steel cage with a hard floor taking good care of it?
The only alternative would be to put it down. Which do you think is better? As long as it is alive it will be in a cage. Big or small, sorry or concrete, a cage is a cage.
@@cyndismith4939 the fact that people find a way to kill themselves in jail is your answer. It's sickening to know that there are animals that live like that. If an animal is injured, sure help it till its better but other than that don't keep wild animals.
Because the rescuers have seen much bad conditions then this.
@@harmonybeats2024 taking good care of an animal is not relative. If somebody were being beaten and sexually abused, their care would not be "good" after if they were "just" being beaten. Good care is good care, and abuse is abuse. They deserve to be in a wildlife refuge.
Wtf 🤬 right sad asf
Illegal animal trade is one of the reasons I am not proud to be human
Vijaya Govinda there’s many more reasons. The fact that Trump is human is depressing.
Vijaya Govinda why should what other people do effect you
Its business
Then identify as a pokemon
J ronnn there are too many pussies in this world lemme tell you, they’ll have shit that don’t affect them in any way, then they’ll go out of their way to make it affect them 😂
“You want a feline?, get ya a house cat.”
Yes. For the floofs
@n/a no, they care about the animal's wellbeing
but then how will I compensate?
@n/a you gay
Jaqen H'Ghar do it like a normal person, get a big pickup truck
Oh man.. Seeing the dead horse just... Ugh... When you're a horse owner and lover it makes you sick even if the horse died before and was donated..
Agh, same.
They need to eat somehow
@Kelsey Hanlon they can eat cows and stuff but horses have served humans throughout history that horse most likely served humans. The horse was probably slaughtered and abused he/she deserves to be buried not ripped apart by tigers.
You would rather it rot elsewhere, food to maggots? Why? Sorry the sight bothers you. Time to grow a pair.
Abigail Whyte lol, pussies everywhere, Dude WTF, burried? dude wut?!?! we as human should not even get buried, u know how much space we waste on fucking dead bodies?!?! Oh yeah and cows don't serve any purpose, lets just overlook that we just breed them, overload them in cages, let them get some weird diseases, suffer, kill them, and we get a happy meal, but no, they don't have a purpose, of course not, I guess we should stop eating cows and burry them, they were in fact slaughtered, and abused, but who cares right? Honestly you don't seem to have much of a purpose either, should we trow you to feed the tigers?
There is so much wrong with this world, it makes me sad
Me to
Its realy very very sad
RIGHT!
Ace Ventura would not approve of any of this.
Jenifer Hunt of the sale and export and torture no. The rescue center i can see him liking it
Lmao I'm only 17 and I get that
Joseph Hess congratufuckinlations kid
This guy should get an award.
Fucken A. Government subsidy to continue his work at the least.
He is getting his reward. He is keeping these animals in cages while at the same time he is telling others they should not keep animals in cages no matter how well they are taking care of their animals.
Patricia Teel Hmm, interesting opinion Patricia. I must admit I never thought of it this way. I guess if I had my way noone would own these animals, though it does seem strange to remove these animals from one good home only to be placed in another. At the very least, he seems knowledgeable about the animals needs, which is a small comfort.
Glenn Smith I am 65 and I have worked in rescue both wildlife and dogs and cats from the age of 12 till 5 years ago when I became disabled. There two types of rescuers. The first one really cares about the animals and in the case of wild animals want to see them in better conditions if they cannot be returned to the wild for one reason or another. The second is basically a legal hoarder. The legal hoarder loves the animals but they believe
that no one can love, care for or respect the animal (whether true or not) better than them personally. The "rescuer" (legal hoarder ) will do anything to remove animals out of private ownership no matter how wonderful the private situation may be. Again it's because they really really believe that NO ONE can love and respect the animal more than them.I lleftwildlife rescue because there were more and more of the second type coming into the rescue groups. Don't get me started or I will get into how much I hate PETA and H$U$. I have worked with those hypocrites in the past too. Please remember that there is always two sides to every story with rescues and animal groups like PETA and H$U$.
Nothing is what it seems. If what you say is true, this is indeed a twisted world, with our animal counterparts at the mercy of so many cryptic agendas. Thanks for sharing your insight.
"Wow, you hunted that animal?"
"Yea it was never from Africa, it was caged somewhere in Texas, and I shot it to hang it's head there on my wall so people would think I'm awesome"
That how people brag about these kills..?
he’s a piece of shit
a pile of garbage
the absolute worst human
Nobody:
Absolutely Nobody:
The thumbnail: Horse doing upside down parkour on an escalator claw.
banned in NYC? but what about curious George?
We need more lawyers like you sir
Maybe the man with the big yellow had had a permit.
⬆
Or King Kong
theonlyturner I’m thinking King Kong had a permit. It was a whole big extravaganza with media in the movie if I remember correctly. 🤔🤪😆
Only cowards abuse animals.
*****
yup that's what i was talking about! its just awfull what they do to the animals that we eat, but most ppl dont want to know about it and are cynical about it like the +trolls4dalols, but at least u're not!
I don't eat any meat. But yeah, thanks for being stereotypical and suggesting something based off no evidence. Idiot.
u dont need to eat meat to be part of the animal abuse? ever heard about experiments on animals for cosmetics or scientific research, or leather for clothes? dont tell me u checked everything u have just to make sure! u're as guilty as these guys!
Micael Gomes Yes, yes I do check everything before I buy it. Living in the EU, there are no experiments on animals for cosmetics. I don't buy any products that came from animal testings nor do I buy anything that came from the abuse of animals. #FailNumber2 Keep making up scenarios in your head, its quite funny to read.
Trolls4daLols
just search palma oil on google! its only one of millions of examples! there's no way u arent abusing animals too indirectly, if u dont wanna see it and continuing beeing cynical about it is ur problem! i'm not saying i dont do it too, but u are!
The man running the rescue is a great person thank you
Another excellent documentary.
A minor point - it is Grévy's zebra not a gravy zebra!!
Foreigners calling Americans sick and cruel when this shit happens ALL OVER the world. This just so happens to be a mini documentary about a few cases in the states. Don't sit here and label Americans when this same stuff happens in your country. It's all sick and should be stopped regardless of what country it takes place in.
Bells Jingle not in Canada where I'm proudly from !!!!
Bells Jingle Are you THAT ignorant?
There are more big cats in captivity in American than there are in the wild.
You're THE reason people laugh at Americans, just spouting shit you have no clue about.
Smol Nirvana American states house even more than Oil princes, along with use more drugs, sell more humans, and commit more heanious acts than the entire world.
America isn’t just the problem....the whole world is the proble
Ezekeil The Prophe7 I think you are over exaggerating, you are now the one spouting shit you don't know about
These cats are amazingly beautiful and gorgeous, but they are only like that when you see them in the wild happy and healthy, when they are kept in cages it’s just sad
I agree with you ,caged all their lives.
I feel so bad for these big cats left on these tiny areas - we really need more regulation so thankful for the feline rescue
I'm happy with my little house cat
8 more days!
Mohammed Ali ikr
Mohammed Ali I’m happy with my fish 😁
Good to know there are some truly unbelievable people working against the scum who sell such stunning animals illegally. In my opinion this is even more sickening than the drug trafficking business. These wild animals belong in the wild, not in man made cages. Its exactly the same as you being kept in a cage for years on end. If I ever have kids I hope they'll never see such gorgeous creatures behind fences being ill treated.
***** Cows aren't ugly. They have a kickass holstein pattern.
Not all of this is illegal. This stupid video just mashes everything together in a small time frame and communicates a very ridiculously shallow 'depiction' of the exotic animal trade.
ebolaoutkast it should all be illegal
breeder!
Want something rare, just get a pair of yeezys cuh
Get a truthful politicion!
+Tom Burcher HAHAHA
Foh with this stupid ass comment.
Sachi Peiris this comment isn’t relevant 2 years later 😢
Air pods
“Hi. Let’s play. Oh you broke.”
(Screaming in horror intensifies)
Who's here after watching tiger king?
I'm not, but I plan on watching it.
Fuck Carol Baskin
@Sydney Washington I think that's a reference from the documentary...
Free JOE (and fed him to the lions). Fair play!
I would never give that show my viewership
"Hi let's play
OH...you broke"
“Hello cool cats and kittens” 😂
Carole baskin here
@@dalmallama4634 she only wants Joe exotic and others shut down is because she wants to eliminate the competition
pacing back and fourth is a symptom of stress i feel so bad for these beautiful creatures
RUclips: Hey you know about Joe Exotics right!
Loll
Who is that?
Pop Kicks thank God or in a few years the wild will have none because they are being slaughtered for cash! Atleast my kids will see them this way!
david lowery Sadly this or the cages we call zoos are the only way to see them
@@outlawdavestrucking you're right their suffering is worth less than you're curiosity.
I tried to get my hands on a cougar once, but instead of a 300lb killer cat It turned out to be a 40yo killer woman with 2 kids
you still hit that right?
Hermann TheGerman
You know he did...
haaaa
LOL
5:40 Swore he was going to say he put them together and the tigers killed and ate the elephant when they got hungry enough.
Michael Davis same I thought that too
My aunt used to have a pet cougar but she didn’t get it through illegal trade. She actually saved it from a bear trap while she was hunting bucks. Not long after she came home, the cougar had followed her and kept scratching on her door. She didn’t let it in her house or anything either because she doesn’t wanna make it too comfortable around her. So she just keeps her outside and gives her everything she needs. She fed her chicken meat and buck meat. She also made her a little shelter in her back yard. It was a really crazy experience when you would go to her house, but the cougar was actually really kind to humans from what I’ve seen lol.
2:25
"Can I get the most venomous most dangerous snake out there"
*shows ball python*
Ah yes, DANJER
Growing up outside of Houston, there was a guy that lived just a couple streets away from our house that had a tiger. It escaped one time and he and his friends had to hunt it down, tranq it, load it into a van and take it back home. He got rid of it a little while later. I could be out playing in our yard and hear that thing roaring just a couple streets over. You get used to it after a while but after it escaped that one time everyone felt a lot less safe knowing that thing was nearby and had already gotten out before. I think the owner was worried after that happened as well and that’s why he sold it or gave it away, not sure which.
Andrew Salas-Hernandez why the hell do you expect a guy on the internet to expose the neighborhood he lives in?
No idea what his address was, if the guy still lives in the area, or if he’s even still alive. It happened 20 years ago.
CrippledMerc lemme guess you prolly lived in a liberal neighborhood that nobody except the owner of the tiger had a gun.....
Harris Naseem Not at all. It was a small Texas town of about 17k people and plenty of guns. Idk the specifics from something like census data, but if I had to guess it was probably around 90% conservative. It was a small and rural enough area that people shoot deer or paper targets in their yard without having the police called on you or having to worry about a stray bullet hitting a neighbor or their property.
H369 N369 it tends to be old white conservative men which have exotic animals
2:32 that’s a ball python you knobheads, literally the most common pet snake out there
Its still considered an exotic pet. Snakes, reptiles and other non-normal pets such as ferrets, large parrots and some places even consider rats as exotic cause its not a hamster, gerbil, cat, dog or a gold fish.
Also just cause ball pythons are common pets does not mean they and other reptiles are not trafficked badly like other animals. I am in the hobby and have a few snakes and other reptiles, all of mine are from local reputable breeders, but I also know that there are people out there that do not care, breed them in masses in tiny containers (like the Ball python in the video) and just do it to sell money, cause you can get over 5,000 dollars for one female breeding ready piebald ball python. Them, tegus, monitor lizards, turtles and tortoises, iguanas and even bearded dragons are in a VERY bad way with illegal smuggling and trafficking, as are some more uncommon names that are usually wild caught imports who generally are very sick and mistreated.
@@xBloodxFangx not much of what you said was relevant to my comment. I'm a snake keeper too (lesser ball python and amel cornsnake) and I was only making a point about how at that time stamp, the guy kept going on about how people wanted rare endangered animals, while showing a ball python (which are of least concern on the conservation status). I think it counts as misinformation because if someone who doesn't know shit about snakes watches this documentary, sees a ball python, and then goes online and sees people are owning ball pythons, they might wrongfully assume that person (like you and I) are owning an endangered species just for shits and giggles.
Perhaps they realized it's not good idea to have someone handle an ACTUAL venomous snake. It has the same impact for the people who do NOT know their animal neighbors.
This is the most heart breaking thing I have seen in so long it makes me sick!!
I wish I had unlimited money so I could go to these auctions and buy every lot...
Honestly who just buys exotic animals just for a wall mount ?? People make me sick
This makes me feel guilty for keeping my Blue Whale.
Nick Ferdinande huh
😂🤣😂... Such a dork but in a good way!
You good. As long as you scratch his back.
Don't be their beautiful creatures
This makes me wanna set my girlfriend free back into the wild
it's crazy people get away with this shit. why put something in a cage that is use to being able to move 100 miles in a day. smh. wtf.
Hamsters run the equivalent of 4 human marathons every night. Not even an ANT FARM provides the animals the right amounts of space. Let me think of a few pets that we traditionally keep in the same range it experiences in the wild: barnacles, sea anemones, snails...actually no, snails probably have a bigger range.
Hunting guy's logic: "These animals only exist because we allow them to exist for profit."
Gee, it's almost as if animals do not exist to be profit and shot by egotistical hunters.
Actually most hunters hunt for the meat bud
@@flynthuntingchannel1485 I know, where did I say most hunters are trophy hunters? Where did I imply that? I am literally speaking of someone specific in the video and their customers.
Unfortunately in places like Africa the only reason people bother protecting animals on private reserves is for profit. The US market is solely for greed and the desire for a baller pet and none will ever live a natural life
@@bigtoughguy3233 Sad but true.
Flynt Hunting channel Did you miss the part where the guy said the majority of the people do not actually take the meat and only take the mount?
This video is so heart breaking😔
That guy that tackled the mountain lion though...😂🤣🤔
We need to make harder sentences for these just as for drugs!!
Sentencing someone to jail, seperating them from their family and career for using or possessing drugs is not only cruel and draconian, but it has been proven to be ineffective to curb drug use. Please do not advertise otherwise.
Is there a place we can donate to the animal rescue? I imagine that's a very expensive endeavor and I would like to help out.
Lindsey Luna EFRC has a website you can donate through with their sponsor a cat program.
www.exoticfelinerescuecenter.org/home.html
Thank you
Find a rescue and donate directly, don't give your money to a charity. So many charities are absolute shams and only actually give a tiny amount of your donation to where you intended it to go. If any at all.
“Hi let’s play, oh you broke” :(
what gives the right to a human to put animals in cages for the pleasure of themselves
The same thing that gives a human the right to do...anything.
ebolaoutkast like they say what goes around comes around,
vito svoboda What will come around is, we will keep and enjoy our animals. I wish your intelligence would come around.
“-taken very good care if an animal” uhm declawing and owning a wild animal is not taking care of it :’)
Your assuming they did that to the cat. Could have just as well been done by the person they bought it from.
Cyndi Smith ....they had it from a young age so yes
Cyndi Smith also I said declawing AND owning a wild animal isn’t taking care of it. Dont cherry pick
Damn it's 2019 and humans are still selfish
kimberly Moreno always will be
kimberly Moreno “humans were born selfish”
"It's 2019 " every year it gets worse
kimberly Moreno damn 2019 and humans are still humans. Ignorant as fuck girl get a grip.
Its not 2019 silly its 2020
The pacing with big cats is a very bad sign. 😔 Theyre huge! They need a lot of room. Like about a 500 mile running radius...
Fun fact
Chickens have worse living conditions than many of these animals
One day humanity will wake up to it's horrors
@@laurashea2117 Doubtful, I'm pretty sure we're just doomed.
Random, and not very ‘fun’, but ok I guess
Gotta feed the masses somehow, factory farms may not always look pretty.....but there a necessity
William Lillevik chickens are to stupid to care 🙄
When you respect nature you respect humanity, when you cant respect nature there is no way you can respect humanity.
Couldn’t agree more
Alright, but who thinks:
*"Ya know what, I kinda want a lion. Yeah, I'm gonna get a lion."*
Mr. Kabbage rich people
My crazy ass aunt had a lion that lived in a concrete enclosure. Luckily he isn't suffering anymore.
I think if you have the knowledge and the means to care for it properly, then I dont see the problem in it
THEY BELONG IN THE WILD 😡😡🤬😡
I got one after watching this, thanks for the inspiration.
oh my fucking god. this trade has got to stop. there's absolutely no need for exotics entertainment
WHY CAN'T WE JUST LEAVE THEM THE FUCK ALONE?!
"Hi, let's play. ... Oops, you broke."
At 4:17 my heart hurt so deep for that lioness and her condition/appearance ..😳 my mind went straight to inbreeding and maltreatment and disability caused by the previous owner/abuser I am certain😥😡😤😰 poor MAMAS💔💜💚💜💚
I know she looks unusual
@@StrawberryNinjaNibbles Exactly from inbreeding.
Dont care
Big cats , bears , apes ect are not pets . They can and many times kill you or someone else . It only takes one mistake and you or someone dies and the animal most of the time also dies .
This is the best documentary from vice in a LOOOOOOONG time. This was amazing.
These people who buy exotics and let people onto their land to shoot them are sick in their heads. The hunters of these animals are especially sick. They could be working with organizations to breed and release the animals back into the wild (the endangered or threatened ones at least). But they'd rather allow some idiots with guns into their property come in and claim a "trophy" just so they can say that they had such creatures on their land at one time. Then they go buy more. It's shameful. How about buying some animals and allowing them to live in peace on your property without the threat of hunters? Whatever happened to live and let live - just enjoying these majestic creatures? People are never satisfied.
+kroakie4 - Seriously. What kind of a dickless person would feel any sort of satisfaction or enjoyment from killing an endangered, captive animal?
+A Skeptical Human, assholes who don't care.
The problem with that would be that they wouldn't be able to afford letting the animals just run free.
Many of the hunting ranches DO have animals that are allowed to live their lives peacefully. While there are a select number that are picked out to be hunted as game so they can continue to run these ranches. Not all of them do this. But I've heard of some that do. Game Preserves work the same way.
wish we could pay to hunt trophy hunters and mount their heads on our walls. id definity pay for that!
jsun blue yep 👍 me too
Aussiesteveification G
But that’s murder... I know that these animals are in a terrible situation, but killing trophy hunters only means more killing, but of humans this time.
Have you not read the book, "The most dangerous game" I believe there is a movie as well
Dude I swear I’d actually have fun doing that
Zacobie Dyer
Yeah, but in many wars, there’s a higher reason and things are at high stakes.
If a warlord is threatening your country, you have a right to defend it.
This killing of trophy hunters is different.
That poor mountain lion that was so horrible seeing her tackled
The one that got to me was the the tiger from the circus and how it was still walking in circles it’s so unreal how embedded that was to the tiger.
Walking in circles and pacing and swaying are all signs of psychosis brought on by abuse and being contained in small spaces which goes against everything that is natural to these animals that do not belong in captivity in any way, shape or form.
The same look as people in solitary confinement for a too long. The same trauma.
they declawed her. :( that's horrible
Bro wtf I just watched a guy wrestle a cougar 😂😂😂🤦♂️ 12:27
🤣🤣😂
Its not funny the cougar should of ran away and lived the way it should of had
I am so sick of humans needing to OWN something or someone! Live and let live! For all of you out there purchasing exotic, wild or endangered animals, you all better hope that reincarnation isn't real.
15:27 Fricken adorable to see that little house cat walking around that rescue center.
States should make this shit illegal. Make it a mandatory sentence of 20 years if you are fought with exotic wildlife, fine of one million dollars.
Why in the hell are we allowing people to own big cats in the USA.
zok310 really so i would get 20 years for owning a pet snake as long as the animal is cared for well then really what is the problem unless they were coming from the wild and not a breeder
zok310 20 year sentence for having an animal? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Ur parents should get 20 years and a millon dollar fine for letting u have access to the internet...
Azzury Street All countries have laws.
A law is enacted due to the right for some to decide what happens to others.
Azzury Street This is taking an interesting tangent, but I don't quite understand the point you're making.
Are you saying individuals should decide their own laws?
declawing a cat and keeping a large exotic animal in a small cage like that is not good care in my book.
This is disgraceful, almost all the animals featured in this video were clearly distressed. As much as the sanctuary is trying to do a good thing, I have serious concerns about how they're going about it. How they are retrieving and transferring animals and even how they are housing them. Cougars are solitary animals, and being that close to other cats and dogs is highly stressful. Not to mention shooting a cat at almost point blank range with a tranq. Did they even have a registered vet or vet nurse there, who the hell was the one administering the medications? They clearly messed up the dosage.
That's nothing on the disgrace that is the American public who think this is appropriate. Where is the American government on this? They clearly need federal legislation on this matter, especially since it's a national security issue. It has been well-documented that many of the sources of these animals are criminal organisations who have gleaned a profit from American citizens who've bought often endangered species. I would think that is something the American government should be concerned about, their lack of regulation of the illegal wildlife trade potentially causing Americans to bank roll warlords and criminal factions the government claim to be at odds with.
Yeah I know they were saying how dangerous it was and I get that they were worried not knowing the people or the cat very well but.... It seemed so cruel to tranq her point blank and stab her with a stick to knock her out. The owner probably could've just done a better job putting her in the cage and it was clear that even while being wrestled to the ground surrounded by strangers she wasn't hurting him or responding with biting. Just let the guy pick her up and put her in the cage instead of making up some BS about how it's better for her this way.
They need to be re-homed into registered, regulated sanctuaries or into the wild ideally
sam muirhead
OBVIOUSLY you know NOTHING about immobilizing a wild animal, the dosage was right I’m sure, but animals, even domestic animals can fight against the drugs and they can only give them so much ket or they can kill them. And the closer the better when using a tranquilizer gun, they are not very accurate and the animal needs the be hit in the muscle for it to work. The only disgraceful one are the uneducated folks commenting on here about shit the know nothing about. Next time maybe you can enter the cage and gently give the cat a shot directly into a vein for them 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
God bless this man 😊
This makes me soo sad. its discussing, the way they treat these animals
i feel guilty about my pet rhino now.
holy fuck, a rhino?
+Eli Flores thats pretty badass and i hope u take care of your pet rhino
you are dumb if you have a rhino 😡
Yeah I think I might get my tiger a larger cage his is only 5 by 7 right now
Cameron Klawitter I feel ya man yesterday I had to buy more acreage for my synthetically made Trex
I hate that so many people have captured, sold, purchased and kept exotic wild animals like as if they were pets. When I hear this man saying that the people with the cougar and the bear had done a really good job taking care of them, this simply wasn't true. They aren't meant to live in a cage even if it's the size of an enclosed carport. These animals belong in nature, not in cages. This big cat refuge wasn't as bad as that, but I've seen much better wildlife sanctuaries.
Great stuff VICE..! This is a disturbing industry that needs more light shed on it!
and destroyed
this makes me sick. I'm ashamed to be a human.
Maybe you should just become a different animal then
disgusted.... not ashamed. You don't know any ectraterrestrials to place judgement. It's just us.
Let's make a change then.
Your soft be a adult