Owning exotic pets Student: Professor: Course title: Date: Owning exotic pets Having pets could make the owners to experience enrichment and joy. There are so many benefits associated with keeping pet animals. For instance, spending quality time with these animals or simply caressing them has been shown to reduce a person’s blood pressure. Dog owners also tend to have a more active lifestyle (O`Neill, 2012). Nowadays however, people who are not interested in keeping a domestic cat or dog have expanded their notion of pet animals to comprise more novel animals for instance big cats, reptiles, parrots, and even non-human pirates. Including such exotics into the home as pets could