WILD ABOUT ANIMALS

THE EXOTIC, THE DOMESTICATED, AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

Most people would find creepy crawlies, well, creepy. But not Manny Salvador. Having been fascinated with invertebrates since he was a child, the multifaceted lawyer would eventually share his home with animals that aren’t your usual pets -- these neither barked nor meowed.

Salvador’s background in keeping exotic animals began when he was in college. He was caring for fish at that time, but after losing most of them during tropical storm Ondoy in 2009, he decided to try his hand at raising critters with at least six legs. Soon, he found himself looking after several tarantulas, centipedes, scorpions, and other insects.

For him, his hobby of keeping unusual animals was just that -- a hobby. “In all of the hobbies I get involved in, I never tried to make money from them because I don’t enjoy that aspect. The same is true for arachnids and insects,” he replies when asked if he has ever sold any of his pets.