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Future of the Pet Industry.
Topic Started: Mar 17 2009, 08:36 PM (1,909 Views)
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I've recently just thought up of this. A Japanese laboratory could create crickets, red, yellow, blue, purple and white (albino) crickets, and tweak their size and shape a little, and call them pikmin crickets with the permission of Nintendo. Then imagine, they could modify a Ceratophrys to have an apricot-colored head with a red body with white spots, and therefore, you have the bulborb frog! :D I'll imagine these becomming very popular pets.

Then imagine, maybe the pikmin crickets could be bred and modified to live longer and have a better immune system, and maybe have a slightly eusocial heirarchy, therefore, they could make good pets.
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Ugh, they need to make them so they don't stink so much, either. I used to breed crickets to feed pet lizards, and those little bugs were NASTY.
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They only stink when they are dead. You may have smelled dead ones. A living cricket dosen't smell like anything.
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Leaving Robots & Genetic Modification aside, I believe Raccoonsraccoons & Fennec FoxesFennec Foxes will grow in the pet industry. Although I don't think they're 100% domesticated yet, they still make great pets.
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I don't understand why people has mammal pets. At least for me, they're just to boring and common. I think people demands inovation, since I think everybody has/had a mammal pet, mostly a dog or a cat. I would really like people to reconcider another alternative, like a lizard or something. But that's just one man's opinion.
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I think Mammals and Birds are better. They seem to have emotion. Lizards don't really seem like interacting with people, from what I've seen.
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Well, reptiles do play, but for some reason interactions with human beings (at least positive ones) are quite uncommon. Komodo dragons are an exception, but even so I only know one case of a female that identified her keepers
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Interesting, I would quite like a pet fruit bat.
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Interesting, I would quite like a pet fruit bat.
And name it Eric. Eric the fruit bat.
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Birds and Mammals just interact with people better. Perhaps you could modify a reptile to make it think more like a mammal.
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Are nipples or genitals necessary, lamna?
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I think a chimpazee manipultated to be more intelligent and walk upright would be cool, like a living austrailopethicine.
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Except Chimps are about the worst pets you can have. They can easily rip your arms off, and will do in a tantrum. They also don't understand how frail humans are and play far too roughly.

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Apes as a whole don't serve as pets; even gentle gorillas and orangutans can break your ribcage even in a light accident. The only apes suited for human company are bonobos, but they are oversexed horn dogs and parents would never allow pedo-zoophile interactions.

Gibbons, I guess, are better pets
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Dont judge the poor chimps, its like the people who keep bears as pets. Besides, in the future you could easily implant some sort of device that would dehabilitate them if there agression seems to be peaking. It would be like an encephellograph that detects anger/agression in the brain, and can stun them automatically, or manually. .
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Now that would be cruel. Chimps get aggressive so what, doesn't mean they have to be shocked every time they get angry.
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