This is Albert, a kinkajou at the Carolina Tiger Rescue. Albert looks cute, doesn’t he? Like a little plush huggable teddy bear. Well, don’t be fooled. Kinkajous are rated as Level 4, which is the most aggressive and dangerous animals. Lions and tigers are Level 4. If you were unfortunate enough to be in the same space with a kinkajou, it would launch itself at your head before you ever saw it coming. It would attach itself to your face, which it would pull off while ripping your throat open with its hind claws. They are as pitiless as any animal you can imagine. 

Now here is an amazing thing:  people buy these animals because they want them for pets. 

Huh?

Yes. They pay upwards of $2000 for a kinkajou, get it home, and it promptly terrorizes their entire household, if not actually putting someone in the hospital straightaway. 

These are wild untamable animals. They look cute, but they’re not.

Do not ever think of wild animals as pets. Leave them wild, and do not support the breeders who are as pitiless as the animals themselves.  Maybe worse, because they don’t care who gets hurt as long as they walk away with a big pile of money.