People often buy these caimans when they are small and cute and when it bites their finger off or eats the family cat they dont want it anymore. Herps like these are not meant to be pets. Same goes with burmese pythons and other large pythons and also venemous species. Reptiles are very simple creatures they are built to eat and have a very strong feeding response. There was a guy here that bought caimans and got rid of them because he said they were "not allowed". If it does turn out to be a caiman our herpetoculture is in danger of more rules and regulations.