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When the appearance of an animal in a work of media leads to a sudden spike in demand for it as a pet. Basically, an animal version of The Red Stapler. This is quite common with dog breeds that become popular due to a TV show, as many dogs on TV are purebred, and anthropomorphized animal superheroes such as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This should go without saying, but buying an animal on impulse is a bad idea, and can lead to undue stress on both pet and owner. When a movie featuring a certain animal comes out, advocacy groups often put out messages to discourage people from suddenly buying it, and for good reason: when the hype dies down, people—especially children—often grow bored of the pet, especially when it turned out to be more work than they expected. This has led to a lot of animals being killed, abandoned, released into the wild regardless of the effect it may have on the local ecosystem, or worst yet, living a short, miserable life due to inadequate care. It doesn't help that high demand can lead to breeders churning out the animals as fast as possible and passing off creatures prone to various health problems, like inbred dogs or wild-caught reptiles, onto unwitting buyers. On top of all that, oftentimes, media will skate over the messy parts of pet ownership, like a given species or breed being aggressive, high-maintenance, difficult to train, bad with kids, hard to house, or unsuitable as a pet altogether—resulting in clueless first-time owners picking up a pet that they really should not be trying to take care of, even if it's one in good condition and they're willing to tough it out. Fortunately, this trope is not as rampant as it used to be, since social media has the power to put any species in the spotlight. Nowadays, any creature that can be kept as a pet (one way or another) will have a slew of websites, Youtube channels, Facebook groups, and message boards dedicated to its captive care, allowing would-be owners to do plenty of research before making the purchase. In the past, people had to trust the word of their local pet store, whose biggest concern was obviously making the sale, and whose clerks might not be the most knowledgeable about specific breeds/species. While the internet doesn't eliminate this trope completely, it does reduce the number of turtles ending up in sewers for real. Sub-trope to The Red Stapler. See also Baby Name Trend Starter and Baby Name Trend Killer for other ways popular culture influences mass public choice. |
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Precautions were taken so the phenomenon wouldn't repeat with the sequel Finding Dory. Signs◊ were put in pet stores advising beginning aquarium owners against adopting saltwater fish like Dory, pointing out how expensive and difficult taking care of them is. | |
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Finding Nemo made tropical saltwater fish popular for a while, which was pretty ironic because a major point of the movie was that wild fish belong in the ocean. Precautions were taken so the phenomenon wouldn't repeat with the sequel Finding Dory. Signs◊ were put in pet stores advising beginning aquarium owners against adopting saltwater fish like Dory, pointing out how expensive and difficult taking care of them is. |
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St. Bernard dogs became very popular because of the dog Joseph in Heidi, Girl of the Alps. Curiously, he doesn't appear in the original novel. | |
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Parodied by The Daily Mash, which wrote a joke article called “Women Under Increasing Pressure To Have Dragons�, about women feeling that they need to have baby dragons as pets because of the popularity of Daenerys Targaryen and her pet dragons from Game of Thrones. | |
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua did its best to avert this with a message in the credits saying, essentially, "make sure that you really want and are prepared to care for a dog should you get one." Ostensibly, this film is immune to the effect, as it was made in response to a terrible cultural trend that was already in existence (and apparently on the decline at the time). If anything, The Simple Life and Paris Hilton are to blame for the trend that led to the film. | |
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The popularity of Lassie led to a large demand for Collies. As with other dog breeds that come into this effect, several were bred to meet the demand, leading to unhealthy, inbred dogs. Many people blame this for health problems the breed has today. | |
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The popularity of Harry Potter led to a big demand for snowy owls, to the point that an owl sanctuary had to be opened to accommodate all the owls that were bought as pets but then abandoned. This is not surprising, since owning a "pet" bird of prey is essentially letting a small carnivorous dinosaur into your house. On top of that, they are neither affectionate nor particularly intelligent, stretching the meaning of "pet". Experienced hawkers/falconers will be the first to tell you that while birds of prey can be tamed to an extent, they are not 'pets'. | |
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Garfield and Heathcliff caused this for orange tabbies. | |
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As with Dalmatians, Lady and the Tramp led to a sharp spike in demand for the Cocker Spaniel breed. While cockers are genuinely very sweet, friendly dogs appropriate for most beginning dog owners, the poor breeding done to meet the demand compounded the health problems the breed already had. | |
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Black Panther (2018): While panthers aren't exactly pet material, the movie did cause an increased demand for black cats, especially so they could be named after characters from the movie. Since some people still remain suspicious about black cats being bad luck, this ended up being a positive trend for a number of shelters, as it helped them adopt out cats who otherwise might be slower to be adopted. | |
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The 1970s series Baretta, with Robert Blake as a plainclothes police detective, caused a surge in the popularity of sulphur-crested cockatoos as pets (on the show, Tony Baretta has one named Fred). Unfortunately, a lot of people undoubtedly regretted the decision to purchase one, as the birds can be troublesome, loud, demanding pets who chew on just about any solid material they can get their beaks on. | |
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Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat led to a short spike in demand for Siamese cats, the breed of the titular feline. Much like Warrior Cats, it also got many people into cats. | |
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Legally Blonde is one of a few things that has been credited with popularizing Chihuahuas as "accessory" dogs. | |
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Thanks to Zootopia's huge popularity in China, demand for red fox and fennec fox pets increased. Not surprisingly, wildlife experts express concerns for this trend since most foxes found on the pet market "are not commercially domesticated, often not vaccinated and can be dangerous". | |
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The Air Bud franchise boosted the popularity of the Golden Retriever, which was already popular. | |
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One of the more famous examples is 101 Dalmatians. The film made the breed more popular, and as a result, demand jumped up. Like many "fad" animals, several were abandoned a few months later, aided by the fact that Dalmatians are very high-maintenance dogs*For one thing, the breed descended from Croatian warhounds and were bred specifically to be guard dogs for coaches and carriages. Without proper dedication in terms of time and training, they will become aggressive, and consistently score among the top 10 (and sometimes even top 5) of aggressive dog breeds. And that's not getting into the 30% that are prone to partial or total hearing problems. that many owners simply aren't prepared to deal with. And the ones that are will readily tell you that a Dalmatian is not a first-timer's breed. | |
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Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh were apparently aware of this trope when they developed Phineas and Ferb, which is why they deliberately gave their protagonists a pet that was impossible in real life, an animal that kids could not "pick out at a pet store and beg [their parents] for". Perry is a Platypus. | |
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The popularity of the 1977 anime Rascal the Raccoon was single-handedly responsible for the introduction of feral raccoons in Japan. Up to 1500 raccoons were imported as pets, but now the descendants of abandoned or escaped raccoons live wild in 44 of Japan's 47 prefectures. Unfortunately, they are horribly invasive omnivorous pests who love to tear up traditional architecture. | |
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Fred Basset is a comic strip starring a Basset Hound. It has helped popularize the breed as a house pet. | |
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Demand for guinea pigs went up significantly for about a year after G-Force came out. | |
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The Disney film Snow Dogs led to a short spike in demand for Siberian Huskies, the breed featured in the film. | |
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Belle and Sebastian did a great deal to boost the popularity of the Great Pyrenees breed in Japan. | |
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The release of 102 Dalmatians, with a blue-eyed white puppy named Oddball, triggered a run on blue-eyed white Dalmatian puppies from parents who didn't realize that the blue-eyes gene is strongly associated with deafness. You thought a hearing Dalmatian was high maintenance? Try a deaf one. Blue-eyed white Dalmatians (and indeed, Dalmatians in general) were bred at such a rate that puppy mills would inbreed lines with extreme prejudice if they could get away with it, causing enormous damage to the breed in general, with congenital defects ranging anywhere from extra dewclaws to clubbed limbs to clinical insanity. | |
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Rufus the Naked Mole Rat in Kim Possible has led to kids wanting one for their very own. Common sense provides it's not really a Speech-Impaired Animal in real life, but what even parents might not know is that the naked mole rat is basically blind, not cute, and one of the only mammals that are eusocial — like bees — and so can only survive in an underground colony with hundreds of other mole rats. | |
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Toto from The Wizard of Oz put the Cairn Terrier on the map for most people. Even decades later, the popularity of the film leads many to buy or adopt one. | |
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The Lassie and Lad A Dog movies (as well as the Lassie TV show) spawned such a demand for Collies that pet breeders nearly managed to ruin what had been a really good breed. Even today, there are tons of badly-bred Collies with poor health and the brains of an ice cube. | |
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Balto thankfully didn't do this for wolf-dogs (who are very high maintenance and more like wolves than dogs, not to forget illegal in many regions), however it did help boost interest in the Siberian Husky. It might have had something of a pseudo-effect of this trope: there was already a practice of selling Husky mixes as wolf-dogs (without even a drop of wolf blood in them) to owners wanting an exotic pet, and Balto's success increased viewer interest in the hybrids. | |
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Bluey has, albeit in a minor way, sparked interest in the Blue Heeler dog breed outside of its native Australia. | |
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The fad for pet red-eared slider turtles that began when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a big deal in the United Kingdom. A lot of imported turtles were abandoned after the show fell out of favour and the luckiest of them were dumped in rivers and reservoirs. Various areas of Britain report that water features suddenly developed resident turtle populations after the end of the show's run on TV, possibly when owners realised they weren't going to morph into superheroes and that the real thing is rather prosaic and boring - and possibly long-lived. Sefton Park in Liverpool, for instance, now has an unwanted turtle population which defies attempts to cull it and is a pest, preying on native fish and wildfowl. Fishermen across the UK hate the imported alien population of snapping turtles, for their part in depleting fish stocks. Attempts are periodically made to cull them. | |
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Many people want a Great Dane due to Scooby-Doo. This is despite Scooby being the deliberate antithesis of the "ideal" Great Dane. The creators researched Great Danes and made Scooby the opposite of breed standards. | |
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Peanuts and Snoopy's popularity caused beagles to become one of the most desired dog breeds ever. | |
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The popularity of Pippi Longstocking would briefly start a pet monkey fad in Sweden in the early 1960s, with people often importing and/or selling monkeys from other countries. Unsurprisingly, given that monkeys are well, wild animals (and aggressive wild animals at that), this led to a wave of monkey attacks across the country, resulting in many getting injured and hospitalized (one such story is recalled in humorous fashion here). It didn't help that the cold Swedish climate was not suitable for monkeys, causing hundreds of them to die, nor did it help that their presence brought with them dangerous diseases that were not native to Sweden. In a direct response to this, the Riksdag passed a law that forbade the ownership of most exotic animals, including monkeys, stopping the fad and ensuring that similar fads won't happen again. Reportedly, Lindgren admitted that she would’ve never given Pippi a pet monkey had she known the fad would occur. | |
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Game of Thrones caused a huge leap in the popularity of Siberian Huskies, and other wolf-looking breeds, due to their resemblance to the direwolves from the series. Unfortunately, not soon afterwards shelters began reporting an increase in Huskies due to people abandoning their dogs. Huskies are a large, high-energy breed that aren't recommended for beginners. Peter Dinklage and Jerome Flynn spoken out against buying the dogs on a whim and remind the public it’s best to adopt through a shelter whilst knowing full knowledge of any dog breed in question. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog did raise interest in pet hedgehogs. While owning a hedgehog is illegal or requires a permit in some places, they are rather docile and easy to raise, though they are also notoriously shy. In one case, an 11-year-old Sonic fan successfully petitioned to have his hometown lift a ban on pet hedgehogs. Adding to this, one of the most popular pet hedgehog names is "Sonic". One hedgehog adoption website humorously lambasts the idea. | |
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101 Dalmatians (1996) sparked a new rise in the sales of Dalmatian puppies 35 years after the animated film. As explained in the above entry, the Dalmatian may look unique, but is an extremely high-maintenance dog that requires a lot of dedication. Dedication that children that may want said breed aren't exactly known for being capable of. The release of 102 Dalmatians, with a blue-eyed white puppy named Oddball, triggered a run on blue-eyed white Dalmatian puppies from parents who didn't realize that the blue-eyes gene is strongly associated with deafness. You thought a hearing Dalmatian was high maintenance? Try a deaf one. Blue-eyed white Dalmatians (and indeed, Dalmatians in general) were bred at such a rate that puppy mills would inbreed lines with extreme prejudice if they could get away with it, causing enormous damage to the breed in general, with congenital defects ranging anywhere from extra dewclaws to clubbed limbs to clinical insanity. |
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Jurassic Park increased the demand for frilled lizards as pets, due to their looking like the portrayal of the dilophosaurus in the film. | |
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The popularity of Shiloh caused this with Beagles. | |
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The popularity of Warrior Cats has gotten many people into cats. Since it's about feral cats, most aren't purebred so fans can't exactly be drawn to certain cat breeds, but fans often get interested in certain pelt colours due to liking characters with said designs. Some cats resemble breeds, such as Bluestar looking like a Russian Blue with the wrong eye colour and Yellowfang resembling a Persian, which also spurs interest in breeds. | |
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Discussed in-universe in Massugu ni Ikou. A news clip talks about abandoned fad pets at a shelter that's received 36 dogs this year (with 28 of them being put to sleep). Gen's owner got him as a middle schooler but didn't know how much trouble a Husky would be. Gen begins acting sullen and barks to nothing, so his owner decides to give him to someone in Hokkaido so that Gen can have space to exercise. | |
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Cast members of Vivo and Netflix made preemptive statements on kinkajou poaching to disassociate the movie from any potential fallout. Given that kinkajous are already victim to illegal pet trade it’s unclear if the movie contribued to their decline in any capacity. | |
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Ratatouille caused a demand for pet rats. Not the worst case, as, with enough knowledge, funds, and proper resources, rats can be relatively easy to care for (perhaps not exactly for a child but still), but it did lead to some abandoned rats. | |
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Inverted by The Omen (1976), which depicted Rottweilers as Hell Hounds in service to Damien and thus gave them a reputation as violent, savage brutes. As a result, a growing number of owners were people who planned on using them for violent purposes, from guarding property and attacking intruders to dog fighting. | |
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Hamtaro made many people want hamsters, and in some lands, it was a true boom. It faded some years after, however. | |
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Marley & Me made the already popular Labrador Retriever even more popular despite the fact how high-maintenance Marley was. Luckily, as mentioned before, Lab Retrievers are relatively docile and beginner friendly. | |
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