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They are illegal in the United States, first of all, and secondly they would make terrible pets, unless you could support thirty-something mongooses and give them room for a burrow in an area with plenty of hunting ground, I.E. in a national park in their native land. That's if your planning to have one of the social species of mongoose (Meerkats, Banded Mongooses, Yellow Mongooses, Kusimanses, etc.)

If you wanted one as a pet, you'd want either an Egyptian mongoose (The Ichneumon) or a White-tailed mongooses, which are the largest mongooses and also solo hunters. However, being solitary animals, they would be exceedingly difficult to tame; you'd likely lose a few fingertips.

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