Nat just told me about this website here in Kuwait where people sell and buy pets from. Sounds normal until you actually check the site and realize people are selling everything from ponies and monkeys to crocodiles and cheetahs. My favorite though has to be the rare french dwarf goat, I wish I had a farm so I could get it. [Link]
Update: I called and asked about the cheetah, its 8 months old and the guy is selling it for KD1,200. He had four originally and this is the only one left. Is this even legal? How are people allowed to buy and sell cheetah’s or tigers?? Why isn’t there some kind of control? This is really upsetting.
Update2: Here is a video on YouTube of a guy in Kuwait who had a baby cheetah in his house. Although its very cute keep in mind this is a WILD animal and not a house pet so what he’s doing is very cruel. [Link]
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they can be got free from AFL or PAWS
This is like an online version of the Friday market pet section. Where’s shit-sucking PETA when you need them?
u can get a cheetah for free from paws?
There isn’t control because, like Holla noted, they’re just doing online what they were used to doing offline.
We have no from of Animal Control, let alone Animal Rights, here in Kuwait. All the squished dead cats that litter the streets attest to this.
Upsetting, it is!
Strange coincidence, I spoke to the guy last night. He’s also selling critically endangered species like the Arabian Wolf.
He keeps the ‘exotic’ animals at his home and claims to have hired a vet to work on his farm.
Also claims to have them internationally ‘certified’ from their ‘home countries’.
As for the Arabian Wolves..I *know* they are illegally captured, because they’re listed as protected species. For God’s sakes we only got about 500 left worldwide.
Here’s a YouTube video he posted online of the cheetah cubs among other videos (pay attention to the username):
https://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=mgMNYsk3hWI&feature=related
BTW, his store is located somewhere in Salmiya for the regular animals, while the exotics are delivered right to your door.
Talk about fucked up.
I love there website..
Actually that website was one of the most well designed websites i ever saw!
I’ve seen cheetahs for sale in Kuwait for 200kd..wtf would i pay 1200 for one!
Am not gonna be a hypocrite here and say oh this is fucked up,, to be honest i always wanted a tiger.
Not everyone has that kinda money to spend on a pet..i’d expect a person who can afford one to really take care of it.
I want a monkey. I’ll settle for a Root Weeler, though!
hi!
anyway, online pet store??? I buy all kinds of stuff online but buying a pet online? how Im supposed to know that he’s not sick..etc?
never gonna buy pets online!!
~LE~ – Ok the website is great design but there are a lot and I mean A LOT of broken links. I can’t even get the contact number of guy both English and Arabic :/. I’m just wondering how this guys is able to sell exotic animals. Especially a cheetah! That’s just crazy. Imagine how much the owner has to spend on meat on a daily basis. I wounder what would happen when the cheetah grows up in 2 – 3 months :/ ?
Will it bit him or be faithful to his owner? I think it will bite him because there was an actual documentary that was done not by cheetahs as an experiment but with wolves. The name of the TV documentary is called “Man Among Wolves” (it’s new not that old). This guy literally picks up a pup of wolves and cares for them at his own home. But in the near future, the guy has a job and can’t attend or pay attention to the wolves. So he let them free at a wild zoo park. However, the main conclusion is when he comes back to see them after 1 month. Great TV documentary.
The cheetah will grow up and eat him..
OMG… i am in Love..
Temsaaaa7?!!!!
People are buying temsaaaaa7?
Why would any one want to raise a temsa7?!?!?!?!!??!
What if the temsa7 ran away, would i one day get out of my house to see a stray temsa7 waiting on my car door?! maybe he is taking a hike with the fully grown iguana and the nicely grown cheetah… dont we have enought stray cats and wild dogs in the street already?! now we will have stray tamasee7 o cheetah o god knows what?!
At least the man who has tigers has them confined is a especially build home with cages. He is not selling their offsprings off line or online!!!! shino y3ni any one can buy a temsa7? y3ni now my cousin who is 18 and barely able to finish high school can go online o buy a lovely temsa7 o decide to sleep in the chalet or dewanya with friends while keeping the temsa7 at his room and then the little fella would decide to join my aunt and her husband in the living room? Tell me who would be brave enough to fend off his attacks? 777?!?
Why dont they sell pyrana fish and little sharks as well… at least they are easier to get and raise considering their is a sea nearby. Maybe a little bat too??
Do they sell racoons by any chance? I want to name him “Sly”.
lol @ Mike…Root Weeler? Dhont want Jee-wa-waa?
This kind of site makes me sick!!!!! You people who are willing to pay money for these poor creatures are creating a market for this kind of cruelty!!! Stop buying these poor animals NOW!!!! You people are the true animals
I’ve mailed 4 different agencies (two local and two international) about the sale of exotic, endangered animals on that site. Not that I think anything’s going to come of it, but I just had to try.