Ontario, Canada - Oversee and Ban Exotic Wildlife Animal Ownership

Please sign and share this petition in an effort to get all of Canada, including the province of Ontario to pass a bill that will ban and oversee ownership and care of exotic wildlife. Each city and province throughout Canada looks at exotic animal ownership in difference ways, despite whether or not the owners are aware of the health, safety and proper care of the exotic species. Such instances can lead to animal cruelty investigations. All of Canada needs to abide by the laws and Bill 125 that refers to exotic animals held in captivity.

Laws throughout Canada are not consistent countrywide regarding regulations in owning and caring for an exotic animals. Some areas require permits for an exotic animal as a pet while others consider the animal to be illegal. Ontario is the only province currently lacking any form of provincial legislation regarding exotic animal ownership.

Some provinces such as Alberta and PEI only ban animals that are considered dangerous although any and all animals with wild instincts are to be respected. The provinces of Quebec and Saskatchewan makes a listing of which animals require permits and which do not. British Columbia exclusively restricts the sale and ownership of exotic wild animals of controlled alien species.

Selling exotic animals is a trade; big business without regard for the animals involved. The animals are stolen from their natural home environments strictly for the purpose of making money from them. Parrots have their beaks cut, feed taped and are often stuffed into plastic tubes for smuggling in luggage. Baby turtles are taped inside of their shells, with many of these animals perishing during the journey from capture to sale. Additionally, those that do end up "adopting" these animals if they survive the trips mistreat them due to be unqualified in their care.

Once purchased, often times the exotic animals end up abandoned on a road side or are left to die. Others are left in the hands of children who play with their new exotic pets too roughly and the animals get injured, or vise versa. The Canadian exotic pet trade affects you too. Countless diseases emerge from the handling and importation of exotic animals and these diseases threaten human health.

We need to encourage all provinces of Canada beginning with Ontario that all of these animals need to be respected and banned from ownership as pets. Please sign and share this petition in an effort to get all of Canada, including the province of Ontario to pass a bill that will ban and oversee ownership and care of exotic wildlife. Each city and province throughout Canada looks at exotic animal ownership in difference ways, despite whether or not the owners are aware of the health, safety and proper care of the exotic species. Such instances can lead to animal cruelty investigations. All of Canada needs to abide by the laws and Bill 125 that refers to exotic animals held in captivity.