Whats The Weirdest Pet You Or Someone You Know Has Ever Kept!?

[guineapigqueen]

I currently have:
15 Guinea Pigs
2 Chinchillas
4 Hamsters
2 Rabbits

I used to own;
Axolotl

and
Leopard Geckos

I am currently trying to convince my fiancee we need an African Pygmy Hedgehog.

Emma x

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

wow that one thing looks creepy!!

 

[gems]

Pets I grew up with:

Birds of Prey of many types, hawks, falcons, owls, kookaburras, etc, too many to list. I flew my own Barn Owl from the age of 5, a Kestrel from the age of about 11, and a Buzzard from the age of 16 until I went to uni.

People were always bringing various dying animals and birds to our front door for my dad to help, so we always had some wild animals around the house, hedgehogs, mice, small birds, a fox...... at school my dad was the Animal Man!

We had an Owl Monkey called Doris from a friend who couldn't look after it anymore. We rehomed it after a few years, it went into a breeding programme at a zoo in Wales after we found out that they were really endangered and there were only 27 breeding pairs in captivity.

We had a Coati Mundi, which is a member of the Racoon family from North America, called Colin. They eat fruit and eggs, great creature, have no idea where my dad got it from! See pic.

Have had various snakes, frilled lizards, chameleons living free in the plants of our conservatory, sun birds, rabbits and guinea pigs, russian hamsters, a mole, ferrets, a jackdaw, terrapins, all kinds of fish, dogs, and probably some I have forgotten about! The only thing we never had was a cat because my dad hates them!

 

[Miss Wiggle]

moon moth's

gorgeous but they stank the house out!!

 

[Dragonscales]

I have kept alot of different animals in the past, too many to remember off the top of my head, but some of the more memorable ones were:

A ring tailed possum (I rescued this poor little bugger from a cat attack in the middle on a main road in town. It was freezing and all I had to catch him with was my T-shirt so guess who sat freezing their arse off the whole way home? I'll give you a hint, it wasn't the bloody possum )

A wedge tailed eagle (Another rescue, it was only a young one and I found it injured and nursed it back to health before releasing it again. Although it was wild it quite happily sat on my arm and never once tried pecking me, something I can't say about my cockatiel )

A scorpion

Numerous spiders

Geckoes

Skinks

Blue tounged lizards and shingle back lizards

Mudeyes (dragonfly larvae)

Antlions

Numerous birds not normally thought of as "pets" - crows, sparrows, starlings, etc. These were all rescues though, some were released, others weren't for whatever reasons (inability to fly again, etc. Not due to selfish reasons).

Aside from that there were the typical mice, rats, rabbits, guinnea pigs, etc, etc, etc

We own two axolotyls at present as well.

There are plenty of others but I can't think of them all atm.

 

[moray]

I've nothing particulary odd, though my giant centipede is an amazing predator. I've also got 4 different species of tarantula, a preying mantis and my son has hissing cockroaches and several different species of millipedes, oh and some fruit beetles.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

Pets I grew up with:

Birds of Prey of many types, hawks, falcons, owls, kookaburras, etc, too many to list. I flew my own Barn Owl from the age of 5, a Kestrel from the age of about 11, and a Buzzard from the age of 16 until I went to uni.

People were always bringing various dying animals and birds to our front door for my dad to help, so we always had some wild animals around the house, hedgehogs, mice, small birds, a fox...... at school my dad was the Animal Man!

We had an Owl Monkey called Doris from a friend who couldn't look after it anymore. We rehomed it after a few years, it went into a breeding programme at a zoo in Wales after we found out that they were really endangered and there were only 27 breeding pairs in captivity.

We had a Coati Mundi, which is a member of the Racoon family from North America, called Colin. They eat fruit and eggs, great creature, have no idea where my dad got it from! See pic.

Have had various snakes, frilled lizards, chameleons living free in the plants of our conservatory, sun birds, rabbits and guinea pigs, russian hamsters, a mole, ferrets, a jackdaw, terrapins, all kinds of fish, dogs, and probably some I have forgotten about! The only thing we never had was a cat because my dad hates them!

wow, you win! (although are you *sure* that the coati mundi is N. American? i could have sworn they were a South or Central American critter)

 

[KathyM]

My odd pets have to be my african land snails. Ive kept a few different species, here's a few pics:

My biggest snail - he has a 16cm+ shell and is an archachatina marginata ("margie"). Still in the process of naming him.

Curly Bob, my baby albino margie.

George and Junior, the Tiger snails who have gone on to a new home. They're the biggest growing species of land snail.

One of the smaller species of african land snail - achatina iredalei. RIP

Boo, my adult albino margie.

Stella and Logan, my mystery snails.

 

[thelastbetta]

Well I used to house Coatimundi's, do they count?

 

[Leopard-danio]

I currently own;
1 Albino Amelanistic Cornsnake
1 cross bred rabbit
1 coldwater tank of fish
1 tropical tank containing 2 gouramis

 

[happyannie]

I had a Chinese Praying Mantid that someone found and gave me close to the time she'd lay her egg sac and die. The kitten was really upset when she was dying and kept trying to dig her way into the mantid's critter keeper box. I put her egg sac out in the garage for the winter with plans to release it or else bring it in to get the babies hatched out before releasing them. ... ok all of them but one female.

I think the coata mundi (sp?) is from Australia maybe. It looks like one that can hang from trees. We just have flat out raccoons in N. America. They're all over my neighborhood and live down in the sewers and come crawling out mostly at night--and especially before garbage collection day!!

 

[PookPook]

When I was little we used to catch eastern swallowtailed buttfly catipillars and grow them cricket cages, when we saw them hatch we would realease them and planted dill and parsely every year and got more catipillars. When I was little I love catipillars. When I was little I also raised a few tadpoles at my cottage I caught and When i used to catch minows i also kept them as a pet, ended up grown lake perch, a large mouth bass, and a northern pike this way. Also kept abandoned baby ducks in my play house, I was about 8 when that happend.

Only "weird" thing i keep now are axolotls. I love me some axolotls. Even though they are not "weird" my family thinks it is "weird" that I keep and breed pet shrimps and that shrimp make "weird" pets.

I had a giant pet spider once. It really wasn't a true pet. It was big a yellow in a flower bush of mine and I would catch flies and ants and feed it. Big shiney yellow and black spider! It was really cool guy.

As for "weird" pets, when I no longer live in a city appartment and get settled down, I think I may have to get me a chinese crested dog.

 

[gems]

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wow, you win! (although are you *sure* that the coati mundi is N. American? i could have sworn they were a South or Central American critter)
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I apologise, I got the location wrong there - "There are four species of coati, all living in the New World. They are found in the southwestern U.S., Mexico, Central and South America."

 

[Synirr]

One of my coworkers just got a new copperhead... after already being tagged by one once. He also has a rattlesnake of some kind, but I forgot which species.

 

[invader]

I just got this guy today...

He's a tailess whip scorpion! Pretty much a cross between a spider and a scorpion.

PS: Sorry to uproot an old topic!