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Fads and crazes: pocket pets and teacup dogs – we never learn.
Fads and crazes have being going on for decades beginning with the hamster in the 1930’s and now pocket pets and teacup dogs. Whenever the pet trade and animal breeders feel that the market is becoming stale, they are very good at producing and introducing new fads and crazes to keep the gullible and fickle…
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Toto the baby gorilla, international wildlife law and me
The smuggling of apes and other endangered wildlife has happened for decades and authorities can never seem to control the illicit trade despite international laws. Recently there was publicity in the media about the smuggling of baby chimpanzees and it took me back forty years to my days at Heathrow Airport where I was confronted…