I went with other creatures... though not nearly as popular as the "pet rock" the "pet ice cube" was a pretty cool pet, they tend to have a short life span in your more tropic climates  :D
;D It's always nice to laugh....thanks, jiminy :)

;D It's always nice to laugh....thanks, jiminy :)

sadly after this photo was made, he went for a swim in my coke and passed away   ::)

sadly after this photo was made, he went for a swim in my coke and passed away  ::)
:D ;D

Dogs
Cats
Fish
Horses/Ponies
Lizards (even though I hate 'em personally)

I dunno why our equine friends didn't make the list!  You have to have the money and property to care for them properly, of course.  I would choose horses over ponies because ponies are bitchier!
Birds are cool, but I never feel quite right about keeping a creature that's meant to FLY penned up like that.  Friends of mine have had lizards, such as gekkos and iguanas, reptiles want to bask on their heat rocks under the lamps 90% of the time.  I don't like reptiles, but it's better to have a caged animal that likes being sedentary than one of those rodents that darts around all the time.  I'm too phobic of snakes--the incarnation of evil--to consider them cool.
Most "exotic" pets are just wild animals held in captivity.  Never pick a pet that can threaten your life if he gets the upper hand: wild cats, wolves, coyotes, crocodilians, monitor lizards, great snakes, venomous snakes, and so on....

What about those pot-bellied pigs?  Anybody like them?

I was looking at this list and wondering what would be the best pet to have if you compared the pet's life span to the average humans life span, I know a pet like a rat has about a 2 year life span, I think a human lives to about 75 (I'm not really sure)... so if your pet of choice was a rat you would need (37.5 I'll round it up to 38) 38 rats in your life... on the other hand my pet ice cube was good for about 10 minutes, that would be 6 in an hour... 144 in a day... 52,560 in a year and 19,184,400 in a lifetime (but the actual number could be much less assuming you keep them in the freezer at night) The giant Tortoise lives for over 200 years, so here is a pet that could be passed to another generation. I wouldn't mind having a pet monkey (I like monkeys) you could take him to a bar with you and have a few drinks, girls always think monkeys are cute (until if throws it's own feces at them) Well if someone is feeling a bit bored it would be interesting viewing a chart telling how many of a certain pet a person would need to last a lifetime based on averages... I can't believe you read this whole post   :D

I have squirrels on our balcony, but I do call them pets.

Hmmmmm. Anyone care to guess what I picked?



Cat

I have squirrels on our balcony, but I do call them pets.

we call 'em "speedbumps"  :D

Dogs
Cats
Fish
Horses/Ponies
Lizards (even though I hate 'em personally)

I dunno why our equine friends didn't make the list! You have to have the money and property to care for them properly, of course. I would choose horses over ponies because ponies are bitchier!
Birds are cool, but I never feel quite right about keeping a creature that's meant to FLY penned up like that. Friends of mine have had lizards, such as gekkos and iguanas, reptiles want to bask on their heat rocks under the lamps 90% of the time. I don't like reptiles, but it's better to have a caged animal that likes being sedentary than one of those rodents that darts around all the time. I'm too phobic of snakes--the incarnation of evil--to consider them cool.
Most "exotic" pets are just wild animals held in captivity. Never pick a pet that can threaten your life if he gets the upper hand: wild cats, wolves, coyotes, crocodilians, monitor lizards, great snakes, venomous snakes, and so on....

What about those pot-bellied pigs? Anybody like them?
I hope when you said "great snakes" you did not include boa constrictors..I can see staying away from pythons and anacondas(unless you have the $$$$$$$$ to build a large enough enclosure and $$$$$$$ to keep them fed)...many folks keep boas with little or no problems. But I'd never keep 'hot'(another term for venomous)snakes....but I still find myself fascinated when I see them in a zoo's reptile house. Snakes do pretty well for themselves despite having no limbs and crawling on their bellies...

The thing I find amazing about land hermit crabs is how strong they are...they can grip things with their claws(especially the larger claw which they use to assist them in climbing..they also use the large claw for self-defense)and their piton-like legs are well suited for climbing things like trees...and it's cool that they live on LAND,wear discarded snail shells(some of their shells are very colorful and beautiful..)..and learn to trust humans enough to become gentle pets.

Definitely cats!!!  8)

Hmmmmm. Anyone care to guess what I picked?



Cat
Gee...I wonder ;)

Hmmmmm. Anyone care to guess what I picked?



Cat

Moooooooooo!!!
http://www.rit.edu/~jyl4032/images/cat_cow.jpg

I used to want to be a herpetologist and even got to milk rattlesnakes, until I was 17 years old I always had snakes, lizards, turtles, frogs, alligators and any other reptile I could get my hands on... then I discovered girls  ;D