I enjoy clothing that has animal print on it.
I'm a fan of it too. I especially like it because you can get the animal fashion sense with fake fur instead of actual animal coat like real fur clothing.
I have no problem with real fur just that the whole animal need to be used for something like food, otherwise its wasteful.
That's true, no need wasting valuable resources. I also like animal print because it's a status symbol, kings of past used animal print rugs to show their status.
I read that somewhere because its was mostly exotics animals that weren't in their region.
That would make sense, I believe they were considered popular due to both their price and to given off an exotic sense.
Spices were considered exotic and luxuries once and the Netherlands built an empire from them.
That's quite impressive of them, I was not aware. All those spices must have shaped their cuisine quite a bit.
I think it did for most of the Western countries in Europe. 
Makes sense, you'd only be able to use what was available to you before we had such established international trade like today.