Where can i buy a jerboa rodent?

this is a picture of one:


http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/photos/and鈥?/a>


I really want one because they are so cute. If this is an illegal form of trade or you have to have a license to own one please tell me but i think they are the cutest things on earth and i recently lost my pet rabbit so i want one!


thanks guysWhere can i buy a jerboa rodent?
Why don't you just get another pet rabbit?? They are so cute, so much cuter than a jerboa rodent?





if you insist, try this.........I saw a similar question here.........








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good luckWhere can i buy a jerboa rodent?
You might want to read this article first. It says, in part, ';During the 1990s, desert jumping rodents called jerboas were imported to Texas from Egypt as pets, according to Alan Green, a wildlife expert. Many new owners fell ill with a strange rash that defied treatment.'; http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/gener鈥?/a>








That article also states:





';A wild animal will be in the bush, and in less than a week it's in a little girl's bedroom,'; said Darin Carroll, a disease hunter with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.





While exotic pets from Africa, Asia and South America can be cute and fashionable, scientists fear that bacteria and viruses they carry can jump to humans and native animals. Recent statistics raise the alarm.





Zoonotic diseases 鈥?those that jump to humans 鈥?account for three quarters of all emerging infectious threats, the CDC says. Five of the six diseases the agency regards as top threats to national security are zoonotic, and the CDC recently opened a center to better prepare and monitor such diseases.





The Journal of Internal Medicine this month estimated that 50 million people worldwide have been infected with zoonotic diseases since 2000 and as many as 78,000 have died.





U.S. experts don't have complete totals for Americans, but partial numbers paint a serious picture:





Hantavirus, which is carried by rodents and can cause acute respiratory problems or death, has sickened at least 317 Americans and killed at least 93 since 1996.





More than 770 people have been sickened since 2000 with tularemia, a virulent disease that can be contracted from rabbits, hamsters and other rodents. At least three people have died. The plague, another animal-born disease, has sickened at least 22 Americans and killed at least one.





Three transplant patients in New England died last year after receiving organs from a human donor who had been infected with the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus from a pet hamster. There have been 34 U.S. cases since 1993.





More than 210,000 Americans were sickened between 2000 and 2004 with salmonella, and at least 89 died. Most infections come from contaminated food 鈥?but up to 5 percent have been linked to pets, especially such reptiles as iguanas and turtles. And last year, at least 30 people in 10 states were sickened with a drug-resistant form linked to hamsters and other rodent ';pocket pets.';





Some of the scariest diseases to emerge since 2001 also have been tied to exotic animals: One of the first times the deadly Asian bird flu reached the West was in eagles smuggled aboard a plane to Europe. Likewise, severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, is believed to have jumped to people from caged civet cats in a Chinese market. The cats are believed to have gotten the virus from bats.';








I would advise anyone interested in having an exotic pet to consider the risks.
Margecut, who actually reads those long answers? geez.


Just purchase a rodent that isn't so hard to find.