The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have opposed having numerous exotic animals as pets. In many states, local laws prohibit the selling and the keeping of these animals. Even national laws have been distributed towards the public, forbidding the trade of such exotic creatures. For example the sale of baby red-eared slider turtles has been banned by the FDA, for they carry dangerous diseases such as salmonella that inflict harm upon humans. People still continue to participate in this illegal enterprise, and many are soon to be busted for breaking the law. Keeping these animals in domestic environments is abuse, and animal abuse happens to be very illegal.
