Introduction:

 

History of the Middle East's pet animals states that it was not possible before 1960's to raise pet animals

except for horses which were kept by the elite only as a personal pride and as a demonstration of historical

chivalry and horsemanship.Cats were mainly stay animals and only kept to fight mice and rodents.

 

Dogs were only kept to guard houses and farms and were never allowed as pets.

Qassim Jafar was, at that time, the first aquarist in the M.E. as he came back to Jordan from Egypt

after finishing a fancy tropical fish study bringing along three big aquariums which were then purchased

by Amman's community elites headed by the late King Hussein of Jordan.

 

The aesthetic values promulgated by Qassim Jafar were reflected in the community which encouraged

him to build nine 150  liters aquariums to be exhibited in his show rooms which attracted crowds to enjoy

this new hobby.   

                                             

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