Wild pets

Not sure it's smart to take care of wild animals. I wouldn't do that. What kind of wild animals you think of?

Cheers,
SDK1987

A savannah monitor is a type of lizard, so they don't need a lot of looking after.
If they're legal to own in your jurisdiction the pandemic shouldn't matter much.

I have no wild animal pets -- though some would say my cats qualify.
My niece has two bearded dragons -- they're not technically wild either since they come from a domestic breeder.

We feed wild birds in the winter, but none of them are pets since they don't interact with us other than eating the food.
In the past we've had squirrels eating out of our hands, but we've not seen squirrels in a few years.

That's good to know. I was thinking a savannah monitor wasn't a animal.
That's the problem if English isn't my first language I guess

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_monitor

From the article linked above
Savannah monitors are stoutly built, with relatively short limbs and toes, and skulls and dentition adapted to feed on hard-shelled prey. They are robust creatures, with powerful limbs for digging, powerful jaws and blunt, peglike teeth. Maximum size is rarely more than 100 cm. Their diet is much more restricted than that of other African monitor lizards, consisting mainly of snails, millipedes, orthopterans, beetles, and other invertebrates.

Yikes! It would need a rather large enclosure

Seems like a challenge to keep a savannah monitor as pet.

Haha yeah, it will be tough preparing for its enclosed home but we have a huge "enclosed" garden in our home and planning to make a glass-type enclosure large enough for them. I do plan on taking a baby savannah so maybe a little aquarium type house would suffice for now. ♦

At least you have enough space for animals like this. Hopefully you have still time for pets when everything is back to normal.

wild pets you say?

That must be a old picture

Originally posted by SDK1987
That must be a old picture
Definitely -- it is now illegal (in BC anyway) to capture game animals and attempt to domesticate them.

Hopefully yes! And wow, those are huge deers.

Originally posted by Merlinious
Hopefully yes! And wow, those are huge deers.

They're moose -- the largest member of the deer family.
It gets confusing, though. in Europe that same animal is called an elk -- what we call elk in North America are actually Wapiti.

Wapiti are also rather large.

Nice videos.

Nice animal videos again:f_thumbsup: