OT: Most obscure pet you (or someone close to you) has had in their house

[methodology]

I think I've seen every pet imaginable between my wife's sister and a crackpot that I worked with here's the list of pets they had that weren't the everyday pet even though they had them also. These pets lived in the house

Flying squirrels, raccoon, skunk, sugar glider, giant tortoise, ferret, pig, goat, and a blue macaw that was apparently worth tens of thousands

 

[UC313]

My wife had a hedgehog in college. She bought it a hamster wheel. It ran its own feet off and died.

 

[8893]

I think I've seen every pet imaginable between my wife's sister and a crackpot that I worked with here's the list of pets they had that weren't the everyday pet even though they had them also. These pets lived in the house

Flying squirrels, raccoon, skunk, sugar glider, giant tortoise, ferret, pig, goat, and a blue macaw that was apparently worth tens of thousands

This reminds me that we rented a loft one summer on Martha's Vineyard in a house where they had a Vietnamese potbellied pig as a pet. Thankfully, the pig could not climb the stairs to our loft, but we had plenty of interactions with it throughout the summer. Definitely very smart and very stubborn.

The family had a nanny and the pig tortured her. One time it got her purse while she was out of the house and she came home to find all of the contents arranged on the floor, with all her photos organized together and displayed in a way that a serial killer might. That freaked her out real good and she quit a few weeks later.

 

[NEforceUConn]

My old boss tells the story of two of his frat brothers at SMU who had a large snake. Every Saturday in the campus eatery they would review the local paper for free kittens. All the coeds would coo over the brothers thinking they were so cute. Needless to say the kittens were fed to the snake every Saturday night.

Pretty sick. But less so than what the Flanagan hockey players would do to cats on the ice at Choate.

 

[Travelman6]

My old boss tells the story of two of his frat brothers at SMU who had a large snake. Every Saturday in the campus eatery they would review the local paper for free kittens. All the coeds would coo over the brothers thinking they were so cute. Needless to say the kittens were fed to the snake every Saturday night.

They sound like terrible excuses for people.

 

[NEforceUConn]

They sound like terrible excuses for people.

Definitely sick individuals.

 

[Mr. French]

My old boss tells the story of two of his frat brothers at SMU who had a large snake. Every Saturday in the campus eatery they would review the local paper for free kittens. All the coeds would coo over the brothers thinking they were so cute. Needless to say the kittens were fed to the snake every Saturday night.

Pretty sick. But less so than what the Flanagan hockey players would do to cats on the ice at Choate.

F those people - I'm a cat guy whether people like it or not, and I genuinely believe anyone who tortures a cat is on some sort of killer/extreme mental disturbance spectrum. It takes a different capacity to do that.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

My old boss tells the story of two of his frat brothers at SMU who had a large snake. Every Saturday in the campus eatery they would review the local paper for free kittens. All the coeds would coo over the brothers thinking they were so cute. Needless to say the kittens were fed to the snake every Saturday night.

Pretty sick. But less so than what the Flanagan hockey players would do to cats on the ice at Choate.

that is some serial killer ____.

 

[QuickDraw]

Cat-rabbit Hybrids (Cabbits) - Fact or fiction? - Biology Dictionary

Are cat-rabbit hybrids (aka cabbits) real or imaginary? Find out in this article by Dr. Eugene M. McCarthy, Ph.D. Genetics.

www.macroevolution.net

Believe what you want, I know my own experiences

 

[CL82]

I think I've seen every pet imaginable between my wife's sister and a crackpot that I worked with here's the list of pets they had that weren't the everyday pet even though they had them also. These pets lived in the house

Flying squirrels, raccoon, skunk, sugar glider, giant tortoise, ferret, pig, goat, and a blue macaw that was apparently worth tens of thousands

For a second I thought you wrote feral pig.

 

[huskypantz]

Had a short-tailed opossum for a year or so.

 

[Improviser]

Had a short-tailed opossum for a year or so.

Did it obey commands and show affection to you?

Was it housebroken?

How did it react to strangers? Did it bite when upset?

I know nothing about them. These questions I would also ask to the BY'er who owned the de-scented skunk if he is still following the tread.

 

[superjohn]

My old boss tells the story of two of his frat brothers at SMU who had a large snake. Every Saturday in the campus eatery they would review the local paper for free kittens. All the coeds would coo over the brothers thinking they were so cute. Needless to say the kittens were fed to the snake every Saturday night.

Pretty sick. But less so than what the Flanagan hockey players would do to cats on the ice at Choate.

That sounds like Dahmer.

 

[huskypantz]

Did it obey commands and show affection to you?

Was it housebroken?

How did it react to strangers? Did it bite when upset?

I know nothing about them. These questions I would also ask to the BY'er who owned the de-scented skunk if he is still following the tread.

No, no, no, didn’t care, did not bite. They’re not bad pets but they are nocturnal which can be annoying depending on where the tank/cage is.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Had a short-tailed opossum for a year or so.

Nightmare fuel.

 

[SallyH]

When we lived in Caracas, the company had a warehouse full of furniture from which families could choose, as families were rotated in and out. We had a furniture allowance and everybody bought new mattresses, but choosing furniture from warehouse didn't affect your allowance. Not us, but everyone talked about the family who had a pet ocelot and their furniture was ripped to shreds and not subject to recycling. Rumor had it that they lived in a 10 story building and one day the cat made it to the balcony and leaped off, landed on its feet only to run away and get hit by a vehicle.

 

[superjohn]

F those people - I'm a cat guy whether people like it or not, and I genuinely believe anyone who tortures a cat is on some sort of killer/extreme mental disturbance spectrum. It takes a different capacity to do that.

Cats are awesome, I have a story about a cat torturer who also used to roll homeless people at night. Guy went on to be a crooked cop. People who torture cats or any other animals are sociopaths.

 

[Hoophound]

Did it obey commands and show affection to you?

Was it housebroken?

How did it react to strangers? Did it bite when upset?

I know nothing about them. These questions I would also ask to the BY'er who owned the de-scented skunk if he is still following the tread.

I knew a family that had a skunk when I was a kid. I’m not sure how they ended up with it. As I remember it, it didn’t really interact with people very much. It used to hide behind the sofa a lot.

I think it was litter box trained and ate cat food.

 

[Austin316]

Bubbles? Did you go to HS with The King of Pop?

Nah. This guy I grew up with who’s dad was apart of breeding endangered animals for zoos kept a monkey. Back then it was weird... police were all up his butt about permits

 

[husky429]

Cats are awesome, I have a story about a cat torturer who also used to roll homeless people at night. Guy went on to be a crooked cop. People who torture cats or any other animals are sociopaths.

Of course he would become a cop. Jesus.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Pretty much my favorite animal ever is a Liger, it's a Lion and Tiger mixed, bred for it's skills and magic.

Tina, you fat lard, come get some dinner.

 

[temery]

I had a pet rock.

 

[RichZ]

We (my wife really) had an aquarium set up for mudskippers. Have to admit, they are fascinating to watch.

 

[XLCenterFan]

I went to a cookout once like 4 years ago and some kid there had a Sugar Glider. It was like a mini-squirrel with webbed extremities. He kept it in the pocket of his hoodie or just in his hands and it chilled the whole time.

I also had a buddy once who caught a real squirrel and it was super friendly. He fed/kept if for like 3 weeks and even brought it out to bars with him and it would just chill on his shoulder. Said it got him laid one night because some chick thought it was "so cute." Eventually it bit him and ran off somewhere into his house. He found it dead a few days later. He went to get tested for rabies and didn't have it thankfully.

 

[jdb50]

We had a white lab rat as a pet in the early 80's. Kept it in an aquarium with a wire top while we were at work but let it out when we got home from work. It was a good friend back in the day and was happy to see us when we got home. Have had dogs and rabbits and chickens since. Back in the early 70's worked for a vegetable farmer. The possum post sparked the memory. The farmer caught a possum in the barn and gave it to me to take it out in the woods to dispatch. I was not into that so I brought the possum out into the woods and let it go. The possum was caught again the next day and the farmer told me to get rid of it or else. So I went out into the woods with the possum and beat it to death with a branch. At 15 years old I thought to myself geez the world is screwed up.