I am a wildlife rehabber lol and never a fan of things like this. If you're really interested to get into the ethics of this, we can have that conversation 🤷♀️
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I appreciate your offer. Your original comment said let them live in the wild connoting they were preventing them from being free. That would seem assumptive. The issue of whether non releasable animals and wider human contact through exposure events is ethical is a different discussion altogether.
I genuinely think they are connected. Offering yoga with opossums doesn't help the general public see them as wild animals. From the welfare perspective, monetizing or providing the expectation of an interaction can pressure caretakers to get that animal to perform even if it's not motivated to.
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