Do you want a pet?
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As of tomorrow morning, only 42 mammals are allowed as pet anymore in Belgium. At least that's what I read in the newspaper who announces at the start of each month the most remarkable legal changes in Belgium. Hugh...a law that regulates the mammals as pet.....sure, I guess it makes sense to avoid abuse...but still ...
so let me see what we get to choose from:
Great, glad that's been sorted out: if you meet any monkey inside your house, you can consider it illegal.
I'm also relieved that after a long period of political stability, our government is now stable enough to tackle the priority problems in our country.
As of tomorrow morning, only 42 mammals are allowed as pet anymore in Belgium. At least that's what I read in the newspaper who announces at the start of each month the most remarkable legal changes in Belgium. Hugh...a law that regulates the mammals as pet.....sure, I guess it makes sense to avoid abuse...but still ...
so let me see what we get to choose from:
- bennet wallaby
- dog
- cat
- fret
- donkey
- mule
- horse
- mule again (ok which politician fell asleep when making up this list)
- pig (does that include some humans?)
- lama,
- guanaco (sorry I can't translate animals I don't even know in dutch) (ah found it....well it's a guanaco in English too, there you go)
- alpaca
- axishert (a type of deer)
- edelhert (another type of deer)
- sikahert (another type of deer.... hey "42" mammals is cheating if you list all types of deer, right!?)
- damhert (yeah yeah another type of deer - the bambi type fallow deer?)
- a domestic cow
- Asian buffalo
- domestic goat
- wild goat
- wild sheep
- domestic sheep
- black-tailed prairie dog
- Asian striped ground squirrel,
- Eastern chipmunk,
- Chinese dwarf hamster (haha you wouldn't tell I am totally making some translations up , do you?)
- gold hamster,
- Campbell dwarf hamster,
- Roborovski dwarf hamster,
- Dzjoengarian dwarf hamster (geez, do these really exist?)
- the real gerbil (yep, we wouldn't want to allow the fake ones, do we?)
- desert mouse
- spiny mouse
- dwarf mouse,
- African dwarf mouse
- house mouse
- brown rat (so no other colors allowed?? ....some people will need to spray paint their rats, I believe)
- chinchilla
- cavia/guinea pig
- the patagonian mara or hare
- degu
- rabbit
Great, glad that's been sorted out: if you meet any monkey inside your house, you can consider it illegal.
I'm also relieved that after a long period of political stability, our government is now stable enough to tackle the priority problems in our country.
Comments
@doug: you're very welcome to visit without a pet monkey :-)
@jen: no more excuses now huh!
@lilacspecs: well I truly wonder if this wouldn't be regulated in other countries as well. it seems partially ridiculous but yet I can't imagine you're free to choose to live with an elephant in your living room for example?
@rozebril: :)
I've had domesticated rats which weren't brown... more like saddleback black and white. I wonder what the problem is with them?