Anyone Here Have An Unusual Pet

DianaG · December 12, 2009, 3:34pm

My dad owns a pet shop, and over the course of my childhood, in addition to the normal assortment of cats and dogs and rabbits an guinea pigs we had chinchillas, various and assorted reptiles and birds, including a caimen, a toucan, and a few macaws, and we also had monkeys. I can’t recommend them.

Ferret_Herder · December 12, 2009, 5:06pm

Yup, as you might guess from my username, I have a ferret. I think I first adopted the username when I had five. :eek:

SandyHook · December 12, 2009, 5:10pm

Ms Hook had skunks, racoons, and flying squirrls when she was growing up.

Markxxx · December 12, 2009, 5:15pm

I guess that depends on how you treat him and what you do with him

GESancMan · December 12, 2009, 5:36pm

Terraplane:

When I wake up in the morning he greets me by bashing his claws against the glass of the tank in a charming “I will fuck you up and eat the eyes out of your still living face” sort of gesture. If i try to put anything alive in the tank he destroys it completely, plant or animal. He will, for no reason at all, shred aquatic plants into tiny bits that clog the filter and that I have to pick out before they rot. All while nervously avoiding his determined and presumably painful grasp. He leaves piles of headless skinned minnow carcasses around his little rock grotto as, I assume, some sort of warning to all that, yes, a complete murderous asshole lives here so fuck off.

He is absolutely fascinating and way better than anything else you could ever have in a fish tank.

My nurse sharks would have had your crawfish for breakfast. Literally.

notfrommensa · December 12, 2009, 7:31pm

Does a pet-rock count?

Markxxx · December 12, 2009, 9:27pm

Only if it’s a REAL pet rock you purchased in the 70s. Not a fake rock you found on the ground

Poysyn · December 12, 2009, 9:36pm

A friend’s dad used to work in forestry in a pretty rural area - he discovered an orphaned beaver cub one year and brough him home.

When I met “Bucky” he was pretty cuddly and liked t steal your potato chips. He also though he was a tiny, little lap baby - not so…

Terraplane · December 12, 2009, 9:39pm

He does look delicious. If he ever pinches me I’m reaching for a pot and some Old Bay.

Kyla · December 12, 2009, 10:07pm

My cat’s from Bulgaria. Does that count?

Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension · December 12, 2009, 10:50pm

My dog is unusual, in that I strongly suspect that he’s a guy in a dog suit, mooching off my family.

Malleus_Incus_Stapes · December 12, 2009, 10:55pm

I tried having pet worms. I kept them in an ant farm filled with dirt after the ants died.

Ruffian · December 12, 2009, 11:00pm

A horse, a pair of red-eared slider turtles, a ball python, and a corn snake.

In the past, I’ve had hermit crabs, crawdads (LOTS of them), salamanders, frogs, rats, and a baby snapping turtle I caught in a local creek (that was returned to the creek after a few months).

River_Hippie · December 12, 2009, 11:08pm

Currently I have a Boa Constrictor and a Ball Python. I’ve had them for a very long time.

GaryM · December 14, 2009, 4:30pm

The ones you find on the ground need homes too. I consider them “rescued strays” rather than the ones bought from “breeders”.

flight · December 14, 2009, 4:57pm

Three sugar gliders.

Note the videos are not of mine, just two I found on youtube.

Markxxx · December 14, 2009, 5:39pm

Only if it speaks Bulgarian

starwarsfreek42 · December 14, 2009, 7:24pm

I have two rabbits.

Pyper · December 14, 2009, 7:37pm

In the past I’ve had rats and my parents still have the box turtles that we adopted when we were children. At one point we had up to five turtles because they had eggs. Now there’s just two turtles off different species. (The male and babies were adopted out to good homes.)

Morgis · December 14, 2009, 7:49pm

I have two ferrets. My mom used to have a chinchilla that lived to be 11 years old. That thing outlived the dog.