You can't tell me i never gave you all anything.

that is dang adorable

U can watch the thing just about melt while being scratched...hahaha!

I dont know if I would feed it after midnite.

 
Hell it looks like me when I get rubbed
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For some reason...I was waiting for that thing to suddenly go all kung fu and leap at the camera. It just has that devious look on its face...

 
Other than the obvious reasons below I wouldn't think it is a safe pet. Look at the damage a cat or dog can do to a human afer thousands of years of domestication, it doesn't take for instincts to kick in under the right circumstances....

Remember TImon and Pumba from Lion king? What a cute Lemur he represented.... ever see a lemur caged in a zoo? They have some of the most serious warning signs becasue they are so cute but will sever a couple fingers with the single snap of a jaw...

& anaphylactic shock is serious ****...

......If you see a loris illegally offered on a market, please consider the following facts: For each animal bought, the next wild loris will be caught, or a loris mother be killed and her infant taken away from her. Most loris forms are increasingly endangered in the wild, and since they get few babies which are carefully reared over long periods, losses due to hunting and trade increasingly threaten wild populations.Trade with these sensitive animals who easily die from stress is a cruelty. Please also think about the fact that wild animals in captivity cannot choose the place and companions they need for a satisfactory life, and that their senses are much finer than human ones: they will perceive, and suffer from, things you do not even notice. Lorises and pottos are adapted to free life in the nocturnal forest. In captivity, they will suffer and most probably die an early and unpleasant death from stress, painful diseases caused by wrong feeding or accidents in an inadequate environment. And they often die a long, agonizing death, suffering for weeks or even months.

Lorises permanently urinemark their environment. In addition, they may be dangerous pets. They can bite fiercely when feeling disturbed, and they produce a toxin which in humans may cause severe to fatal anaphylactic shock.

And:

Since lorises and pottos are threatened and protected animals, buying them and keeping them as pets is illegal in almost all countries, often with very high fines. So:

Please do not buy lorises as pets!

Do not support poaching and the cruelty of illegal trade!
Measures necessary for protection of humans working with lorises and pottos (keepers, field researchers, veterinarians)

Lorises have got strong jaw muscles and pointed teeth with cutting edges easily piercing human skin or thin gloves. Handling with its stress for the animal and danger for humans can often be avoided by catching animals with a cage in connection with some live insects as a reward. Health problems after slow loris bites may be either due to presence of a toxin produced by the animals, due to bacteria and viruses transferred by bites (N. Rowe, pers. comm.) or due to an anaphylactic shock (extreme allergic reaction) 78. Severe health problems and occasional deaths of humans from slow loris venom have been reported 78.

Loris brachial gland secretion includes two toxins, made inactive by inhibitors; if mixed with saliva, for instance after licking of the brachial glands, the enzymes from the saliva break down the inhibitors and make the saliva-secretion mixture toxic (76, 77, N. Rowe, pers. comm.).

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Dentition of a slender loris. Lorises have powerful jaw muscles and teeth with sharp edges, and since they are shy, excitable animals, unforeseen bites are always possible. Lorises should not be kept as domestic pets, particularly in families with children! In zoos, handling should be done by skilled animal keepers wearing gloves or, less stressful, by training and use of cage traps instead of seizing the animals - after taming, lorises soon learn to enter such a cage for a reward.

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Loris bites are painful and often heal slowly because of bacterial flora on the teeth; severe disease and death of humans due to the effect of a poison produced in loris or potto skin glands have been reported. Photos: courtesy of Helena Fitch-Snyder. Anaphylactic shock: in people regularly in contact with slow lorises, saliva may repeatedly come into the body through tiny, maybe invisible wounds. If the loris keeper develops an allergy against this saliva, an allergic shock is possible (independant from the quantity of substance causing it, within seconds to minutes, in one case described lasting two hours), although this is a rare disease. Symptoms of anaphylactic shock may be: initially burning tongue and throat, a sensation of heat, red, itching skin, wheals, very low blood pressure, shock, convulsions of muscles (pain), pain in the heart and kidney region, respiratory problems (constriction of airways), heart problems, and possibly unconsciousness. Occurrence would make an immediate call for medicinal help necessary; first aid: measures against shock such as lying posture with legs a bit higher, assuring sufficient blood supply for necessary organs. Cases described: 78, 85, additional information about anaphylactic shock: 5, 110.

For protection of veterinarians, coworkers of zoos and rescue stations the following possiblities should be considered:

  • Use of protective gloves when handling lorises. Stiff, thick leather gloves do not allow cautious handling; instead in some facilities stainless steel metal mesh gloves are used, which are available as protective equipment for butchers or veterinarians (Prof. Rumpler, Strasboug University, pers. comm.), see for instance PerfectFit metal mesh glove page. Such gloves are more flexible than stiff thick leather gloves and protect against cut, slash and laceration hazards; additional safety may be provided by protection of the arm with metal mesh sleeves. Helena Fitch-Snyder recommends custom-made elbow length elk leather gloves (double thickness around the fingers) as thick enough to protect against bites even by large N. bengalensis, but more lightweight than metal gloves and still flexible enough.
  • People threatened by anaphylactic shock, for instance suffering from a bee sting allergy, may keep an emergency kit within reach with contains adrenalin, cortisone and antihistamine. Cortison and antihistamine are also said to help reduce symptoms for instance after certain snake bites 111. Acquisition and use of such an emergency kit or other prophylactic measures should be based on consultation of a health professional.
  • Besides reducing the risk of dangerous allergic reactions, proper first aid after a bite should consider possible infections due to bacteria and viruses in the saliva, which are common (Helena Fitch-Snyder, pers. comm.)

Freshly imported or confiscated animals may have been in contact with some infectious agent. Vaccination against tetanus after a bite is certainly useful. One of the most terrible diseases which may be transferred by bites is rabies. No reports about lorises or pottos infected with rabies have been found so far, but according to the rabies website of the Louis Pasteur Institute (of 2000), rabies occurs both in Africa and Asia. China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand are mentioned as countries with decreased infection rate because of national plans for rabies prevention, but in other Asian countries such as India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Laos precarious situations are said to persist. Dogs are the most important vectors for this disease 106, so there might be a risk that animals offered on local markets might have come into contact with an infected dog. For immediate measures
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Courtesy of

http://www.loris-conservation.org/database/index.html

 
i still want one.
I'm taking out insurance on UR fingertips.....

Get a parrot... U can scratch them like that, they will love U back, talk back and U still have a pet that can peel a fingernail back or sever a finger...

If U get one Id like to meet it right after U remove all its teeth...

& yes that is a finger... just with some puncture wouldns and in one picture it looks like there may B a broken bone..

 
Yeah parrots can B jerks.. I used to own two of them and when they got in a mood U certainly didn't want to get any body parts near them U wanted to keep...

ROFL.... new job description:

Scratching the semi-tame now captive wild animal so it doesn't rip me a new one.

although,,, Imagine the babes U could get driving around with one of those things on UR shoulder in the car... "awwwe lookit the cute lil fuzzy thing"...oh that doesn't sound right.

 
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