How to Raise a Baby Otter: Do Pet Otters Poop and Pee Anywhere?

SummaryRaising otters requires building a small rearing room, with an area preferably 2.8×3.5 m, and a 3×1 m pool, with a wooden nesting box indoors (dimensions preferably 1×0.6×0.8 m), leaving a small hole, lining the box with dry hay, and outside the small room a concrete floor enclosed by wire mesh fencing (about 3 m high). After otter pups are born, they can be weaned at 40-50 days, but after weaning they must be moved to another pond to be raised.

Do you all know about otters? This is a creature that likes to rest during the day and be active at night. As the name suggests, otters are excellent in the water, often playing on the water's surface, and have even been mistaken by people for water monsters. Would you want to take such a cute creature home? Anyway, let me first bring you a guide to keeping pet otters! Without further ado, let's take a look.

How to Raise a Baby Otter

1. The otter is a precious animal, inhabiting lakes, ponds or smaller freshwater rivers, feeding on aquatic plants and fish. Otters are good at swimming, dive into the water at night, and generally live alone. Their hearing and vision are both very sharp, and they often hunt fish, frogs, rats and crustacean aquatic animals at night. They reach maturity after one year, generally molt once a year, mostly breed and give birth in spring and summer, with 2-5 young per litter, and the young can live independently three months after birth.

2. Raising otters requires building a small rearing room, with an area of 2.8×3.5 m, and a 3×1 m pool, with a wooden nesting box indoors (1×0.6×0.8 m), leaving a small hole, lining the box with dry hay. Outside the small room there is a concrete floor enclosed by wire mesh fencing (3 m high). After otter pups are born, they can be weaned at 40-50 days, but after weaning they must be caught and moved to another pond to be raised. Otter farming and mink farming do not violate domestic laws.

Do Pet Otters Poop and Pee Anywhere?

Pet otters will poop and pee anywhere if not trained, but some otters will not. Otters mostly live in burrows, rest during the day, come out at night to be active, and except during the mating season they usually live alone. They are good at swimming and diving, and their hearing, vision and sense of smell are all very sharp. Raising otters requires building a small rearing room, with an area of 2.8×3.5 m, and a 3×1 m pool, with a wooden nesting box indoors (1×0.6×0.8 m), leaving a small hole, lining the box with dry hay. Wild otters are Class 2 protected animals, and keeping them privately without reporting is illegal.

How Much Does a Pet Otter Cost?

1. The price is 800-2000 per otter. Wild otters are Class 2 protected animals, and keeping them privately without reporting is illegal. But you can buy farmed otters, generally around 800-2000. Cheaper than some high-end cats and dogs. This guy is also like a hippo: when young it is unbearably cute, but after growing a bit its art style changes.

2. When this otter is still very small, it is very cute, but this little milk otter's looks fluctuate: when asleep it looks like a little kitten, when awake it looks like a silly dog. Pet otters look very cute, and many people want to buy them.

Keeping pets is really a troublesome yet happy thing. But I must remind everyone that wild otters cannot be kept. Privately buying and selling wild otters is illegal, so everyone should be a law-abiding good citizen. I hope today's article can bring you a little bit of help.