The fashion for exotic pets extends more and more. Not everyone is already ready to be content with an ordinary cat or a dog: in apartments, raccoons, iguanas, snakes and even lemurs appear. It is necessary to tell that this option - one of the most suitable as to contain houses of a lemur quite really. What for this purpose is necessary?
Where to buy a lemur?
Certainly, you should not go behind it to Madagascar. Moreover, it is impossible to buy the wild, stolen by poachers from the native habitat lemur at all. It, most likely, will be frightened, unfortunate, perhaps, a sick small animal who will never become tame. There are nurseries where part and grow up lemurs especially for house contents. Such small animals get used to the person since childhood and are easily tamed. Nevertheless, you should not take home a cub is younger than three - four months. Little lemurs take a stress very hard: too early parting with mother can turn back for them a disease, or even death. The same when choosing a lemur pay attention that males have quieter character, than females. The addresses of nurseries in which grow up lemurs can be found in the Internet.
There are many types of lemurs, various size, a constitution and a color, but the most popular for house contents is the cat's, or koltsekhvosty lemur. It is that version most of which often can be seen on a photo and in animated films: a dlinnolapy gray small animal the size approximately about a cat, with a long striped tail. It is known for the tender temper and ability to become attached to the owner. Also black and krasnobryukhy lemurs are suitable for house contents. The most tiny kind of a domestic lemur - a mouse lemur. He weighs about 300 grams, and length of a body is him 20 cm (taking into account a tail).
Lemur in your house
The lemur has one feature creating the greatest complexity in his contents. It is its nocturnalism. In the wild nature the lemurs look for food and communicate generally at night, and prefer to sleep in the afternoon. The habit of his wild ancestors influences a domestic lemur rather strongly too. Therefore reconcile to the fact that it is necessary to give to a lemur food at night, in the afternoon he will not keep you the company in carrying out leisure, and will be the most part of time to sleep in the shelter and to wake up by the evening. However, if you carry out all day at work, maybe, it and to the best? To indispensable conditions for contents in the house of a lemur the cage or the open-air cage for it is. The lemur, in difference from a cat or a dog, needs own shelter where he can feel safe. If not to provide it a cage, he will begin to look for such shelter and will find it somewhere in a wardrobe or in the storeroom. It is unlikely it will suit you. The cage has to be rather spacious, such that the small animal could move freely on it. It needs to be covered from light that the lemur understood - it will not be disturbed here. As a laying it is better to use hay. The lemur will also be very glad to existence in a cage of thick branches and ropes for a lasagna. Take care of that the cage was not on a draft, about heating devices or in too crowded part of the apartment. Bowls for a forage and a drinking bowl have to be in a cage also. Certainly, it does not mean that the lemur has to sit in a cage without budging from a place. Him it is possible and it is necessary to release to take a walk in the apartment and to communicate to people. Remember that to a tray the lemurs as cats, are not accustomed. But in the presence of a cage the lemur at least will get used to leave all marks of the activity there.
The menu for a lemur: whether you are afraid of cockroaches?
One more possible problem in keeping of a lemur is that insects have to enter his diet, it is its natural natural food. So if you would not like to deal every day with flour hearts, crickets and cockroaches - it is better to refuse a dream of a lemur. If this prospect does not frighten you, then you can buy fodder insects in "poultry market". But, certainly, not cockroaches uniform the lemur is alive: also eggs, vegetables, fruit and sour-milk products have to enter its diet. Remember that I go from your table - for example, sweets or fried products - the lemur cannot give as it can have an allergy. There live lemurs long enough - from 10 to 30 years. Therefore, having made the decision to buy a lemur, it is necessary to understand that your pet will accompany you on life longer, than a cat or a dog - provided that you will correctly care for it.