The keeping of such pet animals for purely private purposes, including ornamental aquatic animals in households, both indoors and outdoors, generally poses a lower health risk compared to other ways of keeping or moving animals on a broader scale, such as those common in agriculture, aquaculture, animal shelters and the transport of animals more generally.
Don chuid is mó bíonn riosca níos lú don tsláinte ag baint le coinneáil na n-ainmhithe sin mar pheataí chun críche príobháidí amháin, lena n-áirítear ainmhithe uisceacha ornáideacha, bíodh siad taobh istigh nó lasmuigh, i gcomparáid le slite eile chun ainmhithe a choinneáil ar scála níos leithne, amhail iad siúd atá coitianta sa talmhaíocht, sa dobharshaothrú, i ndídean d'ainmhithe agus níos ginearálta in iompar ainmhithe.