On January 1, 2020, a law prohibiting the keeping of wild animals in captivity came into force. They cannot be kept in an apartment, house and illegal petting zoo. The restrictions should reduce animal smuggling and protect them from irresponsible owners. This year the list has been completed, it’s quite impressive, it shows Here .
With the onset of spring, many exotic animals appeared for sale on Avito, they do not fit into the restrictions. The people of Penza are offered to buy snakes, rats, lizards and hedgehogs. Let’s take some ads as an example.
A Sono gopher snake can be purchased for 6,000 rubles. The author of the announcement writes that the cubs of the last season are bright and active.
They sell a lot of lizards, for example, from the eublefar family. Dark ones can be purchased for 3500, light ones for 3000 rubles.
A ciliated banana eater with a terrarium is sold for 10,000 rubles. The animal is only about six months old.
African pygmy hedgehogs for 3500. Animals make contact, do not bend and are easy to care for
But the most interesting thing, in our opinion, is the sale of mutant rats for cash. Sale of two pieces each for 400 rubles. The ad says the animals can hear the rustle of money well, have big ears and are trained to seek and find large banknotes, but sometimes they also bring small ones. . Manuals, they can be released from the cage and then brought back with money. The approximate income of a rat is 5,000-10,000 rubles. The seller promises that you cannot work with them. Previously, they would have belonged to Belozersky, although it is not specified which one and, perhaps, the author had Belozertsev’s name in mind, but these are our guesses.
“I myself give it away practically for free, since I no longer need the money, but purely symbolically, 400 rubles per rat,” the ad reads.
I wonder, of course, what is the motivation for buying such unusual animals, why are they needed? It’s clear with cats and dogs, one catches mice, the second guards the house, but what are snakes, lizards and rats for? It’s still a mystery to us.
