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Two animals that people should not be allowed to have as pets. Both are extremely dangerous as reports have shown.

You've probably heard the news story about the chimpaneze who went crazy and tore the face off a woman who tried to help the owner of the chimp. The victim of the chimp mauling is hospitalized with doctors hoping to rebuild her face. Emphasis on hoping. The owner of the chimp said the chimp was eating her face and body, and when she called 911 she thought her friend was dead. The chimp then turned on her and she stabbed it but didn't kill it. She was begging for police to come and rescue her and "shoot him, shoot him".

Now a day later, this same idiot woman said if she had it to do over again she would do the same thing in raising a chimp, putting him in diapers, treating the chimp as her own child and even as her husband. This crazy woman does not need another person to fall victim to another chimp attack. Her stupidity has caused her friend great physical harm and years of plastic surgery, not to mention all the pain involved.

What do you think? Should "exotic" animals such as chimps, boa constrictors, pythons, alegators, tigers and lions, be banned from private ownership? Pit Bulls also?

Yes I do. I hope this woman's friend sues her for allowing a dangerous animal to roam free. Chimpanzees are fascinating creatures but they are not for private ownership as they are social animals and need to live in a group.

Pit bulls should never go anywhere without a muzzle and should never be in a house with small children, same as other dangerous dogs. In fact young children should never be left alone with any kind of dog, no matter how friendly their owners allege them to be.

The key word here is animal and animals they will always be and you never know when they will return to a more primitive state if even for a few minutes.

There's some confusion here.

Dogs are domesticated animals. They have been bred for thousands of years to reliably associate with, live with, and protect humans and work cooperatively with humans. They are trustworthy more than 99% of the time except for those like pit bulls who have been bred to fight and kill.

Chimps are wild animals that have been tamed.

One animal domesticated.

One animal tamed.

There's a HUGE difference in these two categories of animals.

Categories aside, both are dangerous animals. I would have given the chimp a break but he ate her face and hands. The pit bull would simply have tore her to shreds as consumption isn't his built in instinct.

The chimp had grown old and was probably sick and tired of all the husbandry expected of him from his female owner. Her obvious confusion of the animal being human led to such a terrible result of the chimp fighting back, imo. Now I hear there's another idiot who thinks she can befriend crocodiles. She was shown swimming in murky water and petting their under bellies. Little does she realize that that one special croc is just bidding his time till she looks the other way for only a moment, then WHAM! She weighs less than the croc so I'm not sure she'll satisfy his appetite.

Again, if you don't understand the difference between domesticated and tamed.....you will never be able to comment intelligently on this issue.

Well, I think everyone understands your point. But, your point doesn't make a difference when animals attack humans.