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What is the strangest pet you've ever heard of someone having?

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Mitchell

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I heard a doozy on the news tonight. We've all heard of our average pets like cats, dogs, fish, and what not, and more unusual ones like hamsters. I once had a roommate who got tossed from housing when the RA found a pet lab rat in our room. Tonight on the news in Philadelphia I heard of someone who had a mighty strange pet, a pet aligator! Supposedly, this person kept the gator in his yard, and the neighbors were petrified by it. Someone called animal control, and they removed the gator. A few years back I read a story in one of the New York newspapers of someone in the Harlem section of upper Manhatan who had a full grown pet tiger in a cage in his apartment! Has anyone ever heard of any strange and unusual pets? If so, post here. Thanks.

Mitch
 
I knew a guy in college who had a pet ferret. It actually got loose at one point, and I think it might have escaped into the wild because of that. I don't recall seeing it again after that day....
 
When I Was 17..

I owned a python, in fact I'd walk around with it wrapped around me.
At 21 I raised Piranhas.
I owned a Camin for 2 years, but the damn thing got too big.


Tron
 
My sister works for an orginization that provides habitats for displaced wild animals and/or cast-offs from zoos and circuses. Some of the staff get the appropriate licenses and such to keep a few of the animals themselves if possible. She has a Siberian Tiger that looks to her Rottwieler as his mother, plus several Galapagos Tortoises. Not to mention the assorted small birds and reptiles.

When I was in my late teens, I had a reticulated python that was pretty cool. My current "herd" is really preventing me from adding anymore to the family, but I am looking into a ferret.
 
😀 Definitely, monkeys and tigers from the news and now an alligator. 😛 😀
 
A woman I knew in high school had a pet monkey. I hated it when the monkey would wrap her prehensile tail around my arm. 🙁
 
I have a friend who has about two dozen turtles...I am not talking about little bitty cute things here, but turtles of all sizes and different ages. (I think the oldest is 23 years old) He had to buy special tanks for them that need to be cleaned and maintained often.

He also had to obtain a special license with the state in order to keep them. They take up an entire room in his condo.


Ray
 
I had a black leopard for a few months.

She was a cast off from a traveling animal act that went out of business when the guy disappeared in the night when police came after him. Left for several days without food, she was a thin wreck of a beast when I took her in. She was also lonely, as the three lions and 4 tigers that were her mates were taken in a by a wildlife rescue nearby. She would stretch her length out across me on the couch and paw at the side of my bed at night. She'd been declawed but still had teeth, so I was careful about tempting her to use them.

After about 3 months, she was built back into her heft and strength and I bid her a teary farewell. She doing very well now as a full time spoiled baby resident at a wildlife refuge about 20 miles away. I visit her every few months and she'll still eat hamburger out of the palm of my hand.

I reckon the only pet I ever had that could top that one is this guy I ....oh that's for another thread. :devil:

Jo 😛
 
i remember a story in the news some time ago

This man was raising a pet tiger in a new york city apartment. Imagine that thing getting loose in central park...
 
Ages ago I was reading up a book on keeping small pets- moslty dogs, cats, and such, when in a concluding chapter the author talked about the means to care for a pet armadillo. Sociable, good for clearing pests, and somewhat low maintenance (housing was a bit hard as you needed to make sure they couldn't dig out of their pen). Since then I've been curious about actually owning one as a pet.
 
Some guy around here had a tiger to help protect his business because he had 4 break ins in 2 weeks, and he had his liscense for it for about a year; I think the toger actually bit an intruder or something, I was only 5 or 6 at the time, so he sold the tiger and went out and got himself a grizzley bear. Had that for 4 or 5 years but I dont know what happened to it.



 
Aphxa I heard the same story about the pet tiger. It was on the front page of papers like the NY Daily News or NY Post. Yes, that would be a very strange pet to walk around Central Park with! LOL!

Mitch
 
I remember the story about the tiger in the NYC apartment. The things is...the guy was so genuinely upset...just pure despair in his face when they took it away. In a confusing way, I felt kinda bad for him. Aparently, they explained to him that it wasn't in his tiger's best interest to have him locked inside like that. Can you picture THAT conversation!?!

Man, I've been up close to one of those...they can be HUGE!

:wow: Jo
 
Re: When I Was 17..

Neutron said:
I owned a python, in fact I'd walk around with it wrapped around me.
At 21 I raised Piranhas.
I owned a Camin for 2 years, but the damn thing got too big.


Tron
Click to expand...

Neutron, not to sound ignorant or anything what is a Camin? I have never heard of that...(city girl at work here, only owned a goldfish!)
 
Jpie...Cayman's are lizards if I'm not mistaken. Tron can correct me if I'm wrong...

As far as "pets" go - I'll speak generally, since some of these probably aren't pets per se. And btw...in my terms pets should only include domesticated animals. There are a few who have the occasional livestock that will also qualify of course (or a Vietnamese Pot belled pig). And there are those that we consider "pocket pets." But I've never quite gotten into those who keep arachnids and such. Fish are cool to look at, but again, in my mind, not to belittle the aquatic people, but not exactly pet material. How can you interact with a fish??

But during my years as vet student and practitioner, here are some of the weirder things I've seen as a patient:

sugar gliders
llamas/alpacas
African hedgehogs
Frogs (yep, and not just snake food)
Salamanders/Newts/Kimono Dragons - I don't have anything to do with reptiles. But my previous boss did. Weirdest thing I ever helped with was the euthanasia of an old python.
Koi (Japanese exotic fish...very expensive! Got a call about a sick one..referred that baby. Also saw some pretty cool ultrasound images of one at a seminar. For those into the business, it's worth the money to try to save them)
On the bird front, Ostriches and Emus were quite popular a few years ago. Now, I think ratites are a thing of the past (the meat was going to replace chicken...yeah, right). The oil is still highly valued I understand.

Interesting thread Mitch.
 
Thank you des. I kind of figured you would enjoy and respond to a pet thread.

Mitch
 
I had...

A pet leech for a few months....

DAMN cool watching those feed....
 
My sisters and I raised families of rats when we were little. Those things know how to procreate!! I also had a couple of firebelly frogs named Edwin and Princess Puffer.

I have a friend at school right now who is illegally keeping a flying squirrel in her dorm.

One of my favorites places to go in Maui is this little tropical pet store where you can get really rare and exotic birds, along with bunnies, baby goats, those little pygmy pot-belly pigs, and marmosets (I would looove to have a pet marmoset). And all of these animals are kind of just running around the store and you can play with them and everything. Wish more of those were legal in CA like they are in Hawaii...

This isn't so weird - but I also have a friend at home who goes around with a chinchilla on a leash.

Mwah!
-Bell :cool2:
 
I once knew a Church of Christ minister who kept a Vietnamese pot bellied pig in his backyard. Damn thing was meaner than cat piss.
 
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