No animal is better as a pet than a dog, cat, and for some strange people, a horse. That was the moral, if anything of Tiger King. Only narcissists weirdos want exotic pets to seduce and sleep with dumb teenagers. Everytime we go to the zoo and an see deer, chimp, a wallaby and some brainless hoe will whine that she wants to take it home. But a wallaby hasn't coexisted with humans for thousands of years. It hasn't co evolved to understand our emotions and fullfil an important niche in our society. To be sure, you can keep hamsters and lizards in a vivarium. You can cage and observe and study them. But only a dog, a cat, and perhaps a horse, will be capable of loving you, in the simplistic yet pure way that a human deeply craves from the beasts.