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Our contemporary pug domestic dog meets our rescued Asian small-clawed otters. These otters had been rescued as orphaned week frail pups. They’d have died with out us. They salvage to swim in sea coves, mangroves, and our creeks for heaps of hours a day to forage on their very maintain. We have now tried to launch them but at any time after we needed to rescue them from poachers and snare traps. They weren’t raised as pets and we followed the protocols given to us by IOSF, but they’re now bonded to us and the total plenty of creatures on our 5 acres or 2-hectare property. Asian small-clawed otters mate for all times. Handiest the fogeys breed, the siblings raise each and every plenty of until they manufacture a tight household group of as a lot as 12. When you to find an Asian small-clawed otter as a pet, presumably its fogeys had been killed and the babies left to die, as now no longer one in all the feminine siblings can nurse them. We have now found as a lot as 6 otter babies unnecessary after the fogeys had been killed. Of us that dwell on are put into an environment meant to harbor only so many otter families, so it additionally burdens the ecosystem.