Exotic animals

So the article online said that exotic animals should not be kept as pets. I thoroughly agree. After all, men truly are animals and many tend to be exotic, often showing their 'wild' side by doing typically male things (and the list is endless so I won't even start). Some sit around looking lordly like their male counterparts, the lion or the gorilla, while others show their athletic prowess much like the leopard or cheetah, unless they are getting long in the tooth and expect their female counterparts to do all the 'work' of getting food (wait a minute - we do that anyway), but the most exotic male has got to be the tiger (and you can play with that image any way you want). We are told "he" has a tiger in the tank, everything is "Grrrreat" and 'he' sometimes tends to snarl and hiss, with 'his' ears metaphorically laid back, expecially if you change the channel on tv right in the middle of the male-in-question's favourite sports event.
Don't get me wrong. I like males. They can be cuddly, affectionate and often easy to tame, performing all sorts of tricks like jumping through hoops (including fire-y ones when you're not in a particularly good mood) on your command. All it takes is food, belly scratches and a little stroking of their male - egos. Easy. What I don't understand is why we keep trying to domesticate them and expect them to be good house pets. I know. It's nice to have them around, they can keep you warm on a cold night, and often are good to have to snuggle with on the couch when you're watching a movie (unless it's a chic flic, then they manage to go into hiding in plain sight), but let's face it, they also scatter the litter all over the place (figuratively speaking), eat way too much, demand attention when you really don't have time, leave all their "stuff" laying around, and tend to get into fights with any other animal that strays on to "their" turf. This creates a conundrum (which in my Collins Gem dictionary means puzzle). We want to have them, but find after a while they become very expensive and high maintenance, yet we can't turn them loose on the world because they could cause all sorts of problems we hadn't anticipated when we decided to keep them in the first place. Maybe the problem is that the puzzle is missing a piece or two and will never be solved.
There is, of course an even more exotic animal out there - the female, but I think I should leave that for another time, because that will take a lot more room to discuss don't you agree?