Pua on the wall

[buttercup132]

I was thinking that cause they have them for sale in pet stores.

Where did you get her from? Dose she go in a cage at night?
Do you go out with her like you would a dog, of wich I mean like take her for walks on the street and to the park?

Sorry for all the questions I'm interested.

[Suki Wingy]

Wait, I thought tamanduas were originally from the south Pacific?

[Argranade]

By CA do you mean Canada? Cause Gerbils aren't illegal here lol.

That is really cool that she is your pet. Someone else on PT has a monkey. After doing more research I would like to own a Kinka jou they are so interested and I have seen people own them before.

Ya those animals are realy neat, I stroked one before from this lady who owned him .. of course he was sleepy becasuse it was day time lol.

The only exotic pet I owned was a sugar glider, in a few years I plan on hopefuly buying a pied crow .. they can be taught to speak and can live up to 50 years old & with that bird a tucan would be nice.

[TamanduaGirl]

Okay I'm putting the responses all into one big one. Hope that's not to confusing for some. I tried to sort of highlite what each paragraph refrences so make it easier to get to the topic of intrest. It's partly due to the site was being weird for me.

I'm a big photo person so there will be lots of those. Thanks for all the compliments on her. I don't mind the questions. I actualy just got my USDA so we can go around to schools and things to do educational presentations will likely start that in the new year. And my old job with exotics was along similar lines. Always lots of questions about the animals.

Yeah I meant CA for California. At least I did remember earlier to spell out Los Angeles and not put LA because I know that can get really confusing CA is one of the worst states for owning anything exotic especialy exotic mammals.

Personaly I don't think I'd ever want a kinkajou. They aren't that effectionate, tend to be bitey, and really messy being fruit eaters and the ones I heard about tend to like to aim their poop to land outside the cage and the poop is pretty nasty from them being fruit eaters. But the people that I know that have them don't tend to talk about them much but that bit abouve stuck i my mind. http://www.juliesjungle.com/kinkajou.php It makes them sound nicer than I decribed them. It does touch on the fact that they tend to splatter their poop everyhwere though.


Coatimundis are notoriously difficult pets and should only be attempted by someone with other exotic experience already and studied into them. They go through a bitey phase and have rasor sharp teeth. They're actualy kind of scary. After that they aren't so bad just mischivouse like their racoon cousins. I know several people that have them and love them but they don't sound like they are for me either.

Skunks are cool I would consider one of them someday. The main thing is not to over feed them so they don't get fat.

Pouched rats, well, that wont happen due to the whole monkey pox scare some time back. The CDC never lifted their "temporary" ban on sale, exchange, travel of prairie dogs and pouched rats. If you already had one you could keep it and sometimes can get a special permit to rehome but otherwise they can't even go anywhere but home and to the vet. So eventualy if the ban is never lifted they will die out as pets. It was all just a matter of improper quarentine and the prairie dogs especialy were inocent bistandars since they don't normaly carry it. But governemt isn't always fare.

Oh I'd like a pied crow too someday. They are expensive too. I did have a crow once that had birth defects and no hope of being released for awhile they are neat.

I think the south pacific just reffers the certain pacific islands? Costa rica has tamanduas and is part of the south pacific but is also part of south america. Part of south america borders the southern pacific ocean too. The pangolin is from Asia and africa but they aren't even in the same order as Tamanduas though they look like an armored tamandua and have the same diet. They are higlky endangered. http://www.ufba.br/~mamifero/pangolin.gif

I thought I mentioned where I got her from but I got her from a guy in Florida but as I said I know better people now. I don't want to giving names or anything on a public board since you could get the odd person come across the post and rush off and get on a list to get one without learnig about them first, ect. I'm hoping a lady that had a baby will have one again in a year or two and maybe I'll get it this time. I tried before but she claimed she wasn't getting my messages. Day dreaming but the timing could work out perfect if she does for some of my hopes.

Where she sleeps
She has a cage that she sometimes gets a time out in when awake or for if I need to be away and on my days off she sleeps all day so leave her in there dozing in her hammock. When I work she comes to work with me and sleeps in my lap most of the time since I have my own store. Then she wakes up in the evenings to eat and play. She sleeps with me in bed at night though wakes up on and off to eat and during her active phase sometimes to just wander my room a bit. They are not stricly nocturnal or diurnal or anything like other animals. In the wild they are just active whenever it suits them but are more nocturnal around human populations. In captivity it seems females do tend to be more nocturnal though Pua was awake during the day a lot when I first got her and had active mornings a couple times this week. Males tend to be more active in general.

when the weather is nice we do go to the park once a week and she runs right along just needs reminding to stay on the trail sometimes. She's not inclined to stay or wait when told though so we go at her pace or pic her up for a bit if, say, someone aproaches us. Our park usualy isn't very active so we don't tend to get crowds but people notice sometimes and sometimes come. I have walked her by the shop some too. She sometimes likes exploring the little hill across the street or I just take her to the gardeny area on the corner and have her pee then let her trot back to the shop. She knows here way there. She is on a harness and leash of course since that last almost sounded like she might not be. She LOVEs going to the park and running on the woodland trails. Really loves exploring.

[areias]

By CA do you mean Canada? Cause Gerbils aren't illegal here lol.

That is really cool that she is your pet. Someone else on PT has a monkey. After doing more research I would like to own a Kinka jou they are so interested and I have seen people own them before.

The horse rescue next to where my horse is kept has a kinkajou. I tend to agree...they can be very hard to tame, and very flighty. The originally wild ones tend to bite. I guess one might be okay if raised by hand.


I want a flying squirrel, that's about as exotic as I get. And maybe a zorse but...

[lvpets2002]

Oh WoW that is an Ant Eater.. Do you have license to have this animal?

[Suki Wingy]

wow, I wouldn't even know how to start ging about finding a tamandua in the US! As for exotics, I hope to one day have a skunk and a giant african pouched rat (thingy, don't know whole name) I don't know If I could dedicate that much time though. I saw on the show Pet Story on Animal Planet someone had a coati that they had to rehome because it was too much for them to handle.
Pua's gorgeous, btw!

[Muddy4paws]

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OMG Shes so cute! I wouldn't know where to start with owning her! lol I dont think I've ever seen one before but the photo of her giving a hug! omg I want one! lol You need to post loads more photos!

[Twisterdog]

I just stumbled across this thread.

WOW, that is a cute little critter! I had no idea they were so cute!

Are they bred domestically, or wild caught?

[TamanduaGirl]

Unfortunatly most are still wild caught but with more research into their diet ect there have been more captive births and that is slowly changing. I tried to buy a captive born and bred baby from a lady who had a pair but she claimed she wasn't getting my messages and sold him to someone else.

I plan to get her a mate in the future. I also know someone kind of local with a male but he needs to grow up first. Then we will do our small part to help ensure their future in captivity and we will be educating about them in the wild as well.

She basicaly came right to me from the wild with a stop or two along the way. She was in ruff shape and so likely wouldn't have survived much longer in the wild. For a "wild" animal she is very loving. She has no want to escape either. When I take her in the yard when the weather's nice she knows her way right back to my door and when I take her out to pee at the shop when it's warm enough she also heads right back for the shop door when done.

I know how some feel about it and thought it over myself and decided I was fine with it long as I did something to help out. I can't feel bad about it myself. Aside from the fact I feel her life was saved by coming here they aren't excatly a prized species down there. One study showed they are tied with capuchin monkeys as most comonly killed as nusance/pest animals. They are known to wander into homes and trash/dumpsters also killed by hunters on sites for the mistaken notion they are dog killers. They can but only in self defense. Sometimes killed for food or tourists and as with most wildlife is most common to see them dead on the road than in the wild.

They are not endagered though or officialy threatened. The trade is heavely regulated and the amount they allow out gets smaller each year. So trade may be stopped in the near future.

Even on my Xenartha keepers forum(anteaters, sloths, and armadillos) there are differing views so I know how some people feel. But all species in captivity started somewhere. Even hamsters haven't really been raised in captivity all that long, a few decades.

But however anyone looks at it look on the bright side in a few years if all goes well you'll get to see baby anteater pictures

Sorry if that got to long winded but I just figured I would go ahead and explain how I saw it all before anyone commented. Most exotics are bred in captivity. Certainly no one prefers to get a wild animal over a captive bred baby but it all starts somewhere. The way I see it if I'm succesful in breeding it will help give others an option to wild caught.

[GSDOG]

Pua is beautiful..Love the pics...I see nothing wrong with what you are doing. If educating some people on animals like her you will make people want to protect them, then all the better. Lucky for you Oregon allows so many different kinds of animals to be kept.

[trayi52]

Pua sure is a cute little thing. I really enjoyed the pictures and the video. Thanks for the info on her. She sounds like a wonderful pet to have.

Willie

[TamanduaGirl]

Thanks.

That's why i moved to Oregon

Of course I think she's perfect but like with any animal exotics especialy there are negatives. Noctural isn't a problem for me but she's very messy with her food. Not just from spills but it's their natural instinct to claw at their food. She needs her tail oiled to keep it from getting to dry. And being a girl she has monthy female issues, spotting and restlessness. Their pee does smell skunky but she doesn't have a body odar that I notice.

She isn't really destructive and is gentle when playing but know of some others that aren't.

The only negs I count personaly are messy eating = lots of extra laundry and sometimes when restless she keeps me up.

To me she's the perfect pet and makes up for anything else in hugs and kisses and playfulness.