A baby meerkat!
They’re soooo cute! 
-foxy
After seeing March of the Penguins, I now really really want a baby pengiun. I’ve also always wanted a monkey.
Shouldn’t a baby meerkat be called a meerkitten?
A meerkitten it is. I don’t care what it’s called. I saw a show with one and they held it in one hand, the grown up ones are pretty neat too. Exotic ferrets, if you will.
Actually the same show I was watching (some british Animal Planet thing about unruly pets, the meerkat portion was just something about a local rescue shelter [so somebody out there has meerkats as pets and I will find them] and they were building a life size termite mound through which meal worms would be slowly released so as to mimic their more natural feeding habits) also had a funny looking albino ferret that would go around the house stealing clothing and food and hiding it under the floorboards. Cute little rascal he was, he could open the fridge by himself and steal sausages.
But I want my own Timon!
-fox
Giant pouched rats…
bah
Busch Gardens has meerkats on display. I’m pretty sure if you ask them really nicely they’ll let you have one.
Or maybe I could just borrow them for a little bit. Take them home and grow them up and then give them back.
-foxy
There was a thread here a month or two ago where someone posted a link to an exotic cat website, where they were breeding a bunch of different jungle cat/domestic cat hybrids and I thought some of them were cool as hell.
I still haven’t seen my dream cat tho: a mini-longhair. I want a cat that will never be more than, say, 8 inches tall… a fuzzy perpetual kitten, kinda.
From what I know, Meercats make poor pets. They are high strung, nervous, and need a group of them to be happy.
You can always get it a baby warthog for a bestest best friend.
A friend of mine has a pair of female Sugar Gliders. They’re pretty cool… and they fly.
No they don’t. They glide. Bats are the only animals capable of true flight. There are many species which survive on diets of fruits. The average bat species is also just soooo cuuuute. Behaviorally, they seem to be like ferrets. They have only two modes- sleeping/motionless lump and over-caffienated. Unfortunately, US law makes it a crime to own bats without special educational or research licences. Still, I’d really like a pet who would fly to my extended finger, grab it, and hang upside down when I called. I’d also train him to respond to a bat whistle- so high pitched that even dogs can’t hear it. “No maam. Wild bats do not fly at people’s hair. That is my pet, Zotz. He hides in my hair when he is scared, and sometimes climbs around my head in order to groom me. No, he will not attack you and drink your blood. He will begin to circle you at close range if you open a jar of honey though.”
Actually, I’d be happier with several bats of different species known to share roosts. OTTOMH, I could safely keep common brown, big brown, and pippistrelle together. Then there are the exotics: horsehoe bats, wrinkled bats, hammerhead bats, and of course the flying fox. I’d have to check up on those. You never want to come back to your pets to find they’ve killed and eaten eachother.
I assume you mean mammals.
I had a squirrel as a pet once, when a friend of the family found it fallen out of a nest. We had it in a mitten on top of a heating pad set on low. His name was Nikko, he used to burrow in my ponytail. We eventually gave him to a wildlife rehabilitator, who had a large outdoor enclosure here in St. Pete.
Now that was a cool pet.
-foxy
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