
Colorado Allows You to Keep These Native Snakes + Reptiles as Pets in Limited Numbers
While I was growing up, my mom and sister "kidnapped" a painted turtle from the pond in our backyard to keep as a pet. The turtle became accustomed to captivity. So much so, it would accept petting, and take a fly from your hand.
I'm not a big fan of keeping wildlife as pets, but if you really think about it, all pets were part of wildlife at one point in history.
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Keeping Other Wildlife as Pets in Colorado
Yea, no. You can't do that. As I stated before, keeping wildlife as pets doesn't sound like a good plan.
According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, "Wildlife Aren't Pets." You definitely can't take an animal from nature home and make it your pet. Not even if you raise it from a baby.
While you may be able to take some of the wild out of the animal, it will always have its natural tendencies.
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife states that a wild animal taken from nature will possess these characteristics during its life:
- They will lose their fear of humans and could potentially cause harm to humans
- Will look to humans for food and could become aggressive
- Will encroach on human living areas possibly causing damage and becoming trapped
- Could potentially carry diseases that could be passed to domestic animals and humans
If you want to take an animal home from Colorado's nature, do so in a photograph. Remember to keep your distance and not bother the animal.
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