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Preposterous Pets

Preposterous Pets

The fascinating lives of individuals who have developed special relationships with exotic pets.
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Season 16 of 6 Episodes

  • In the Czech Republic, the Lion Whisper's oversized cats are reaching maturity and threatening their owner; Texan cowboy lets Buffalo roam in his own home.

  • Young woman on America's West Coast has a pair of tamandua anteaters; man in England hosts family of falcons; South African home accommodates hippos; Mulan the Bengal tiger in Java; Florida-resident homes Emma the Tiger Shark.

  • Capybara goes to the vet for a toothache: man gains fame by changing name to Lizardlover and takes photos of lizards posing as humans; 15-year-old Digit the gorilla lives with French family; South African woman lives and sleeps with pet cheetahs.

  • Examine the latest pet craze to take America by storm, pimped-out poodles; Brazilian family with six tigers; Canadian man with a 300lb Grizzly bear drinking buddy; UK woman with a giant tarantula filled bedroom; domestic giraffes in Kenya.

  • In Colorado, alligator-mad father and daughter duo own and wrestle with a few of their 350 ferocious reptiles. Plus meet a family with an obsession for macaque monkeys.

  • Oklahoma houses Irwin the red kangaroo; man walks his pet jaguar in Mexico City; Nottingham fanatic boasts the largest, domestic aquarium in the UK; family of skunks in the US; scorpion lover who lives with over 1,000 of them in Indonesia.
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The fascinating lives of individuals who have developed special relationships with exotic pets.

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Mathew Horne

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