Domesticated animals and pets abroad and while traveling: are they dangerous, where do you encounter them, where can you see them?

What are domesticated animals?

Domesticated animals are tame animals that have also adapted genetically to human life over the centuries.
Both reproduction and subsistence are somewhat controlled by humans.
Domesticated animals include pets, companion animals, farm animals and livestock.

A pet is an animal that is cared for by people in their own company and environment.

Livestock animals are domesticated animals that are usually kept on a farm. Some livestock animals are kept by people as pets, such as horses.
The smaller livestock animals such as a sheep or goat are also called small livestock. Bird species such as chickens and geese are also called poultry.

Guinea pigs, dogs, cats, rabbits, some bird species (carrier pigeons), tropical aquarium fish.

In and outside Europe: cows, ducks, donkeys, geese, goats, turkey, chickens, farmed fish, horses, guinea fowl, reindeer, cattle, sheep and pigs.
Mainly outside Europe: dromedaries, emus, deer, camels, llamas, oxen, ostriches, kangaroos.

There are many ways to volunteer with domesticated animals. One of the most popular options is working in an animal shelter, often with dogs, cats and other abandoned pets. This can be done all over the world and help is desperately needed.
Other options include working on a horse ranch or traveling the world as a pet sitter.
Australia: horses in Tasmania
Curacao: dogs and cats
Egypt: horses and donkeys and stray dogs
Greece: stray dogs
India: dogs and cats
Indonesia: stray dogs in Bali
Spain: shelter for stray dogs
Suriname: resocialization of dogs
Uruguay: care for injured or neglected dogs and draft horses
United Kingdom: Scottish animal shelter
United States: care for horses
South Africa: shelter for neglected animals around Cape Town

If you are going to do volunteer work, or do an internship with domesticated animals, or stray animals, for example, it is important to get to know each animal well.
Every animal has its own personality. Some are anxious, others shy, others like attention or are dominant.
With more experience, you will learn to “read” animals better, which is very important to deal with them well and predict their behavior.
In any case, approach animals calmly and slowly and let them come to you.
Be aware of the risks. All kinds of animals can bite, scratch and kick you…
There is a good chance that you will have to follow a training before you can start working with the animals.

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