Exotic Pets

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eminenz2

Cathlete
Do you have an exotic pet? What kind and how did you get it?

I own a Florida yellow bellied slider. It's a turtle. It looks like a red-eared slider, but yellow instead of red.

I got him (her?) from a teacher at school who had to give it away because she wanted to get pregnant (?). So I inherited it.

That was about 10 years ago and the damn thing will probably outlive us all!:D

It's a very cool animal with a distinct personality, believe it or not. It's very cantankerous.



Susan L.G.
 
My SO used to own a tarantula named Peaches and an Iguana named Chuck, who turned out to be girl:p

He killed the tarantula accidentally by throwing a shirt on it (he didn't know it was there). I guess they're fairly fragile. Good thing really, or he wouldn't be my SO:p
 
I don't know how exotic this is, but we own a cockatiel. We used to own a rainbow boa and 2 red bellied paranah too. Yup, it was like the wild kingdom when people came over to our haouse. They all wanted to see us feed the boa a rat and see the paranah eat gold fish.

Kathy
 
We have a Scarlett Macaw. He's a riot. We are thinking about getting an African Gray to keep him company.
 
I would love to get a bird, but DH doesn't care for bird poop all over the house. (Cat pee doesn't seem to bother him.) When I first got out of college, I worked in a lab with rats. I had two at home for pets, Trafford and Ratsputin. They loved chocolate chips. That's as exotic as I get.
 
I have a yellow headed Amazon Parrot that is 25 years old! He is pretty cranky and definitely a one person bird, so if anything happens to me, I don't know who will take care of him!
 
I have a lovebird, she sits on my shoulder all day too her name is Cecil and she is like a best friend.
Lisa
 
Robin,

Our bird doesn't poop all over the house...just in the cage which is bad enough. DH does the cleanup and gives our bird Stormy his showers. If the birds are contained, they don't make that much of a mess but there is maintenance like, cutting nails and clipping wings.

He will probably outlive us so we've willed him to my daughter.
 
We have two guinea pigs. They are mother (Ariel) and daughter (Aurora). The exotic part comes in when you consider that Aurora's father is also her grandfather!
 
Does the flippin' cardinal who's been flying into my upper cabin windows since March 27 (and still strongly banging his head as of this date) count?x(
 
We have a chestnut fronted macaw and a hahn's macaw, a "golden longneck turtle" (never been able to find out its scientific name or species info), and a 45 gallon tank full of orange platties which are continually pregnant and producing 2-3 cute little transparent offspring a week.

Welcome to the zoo. It's nesting time (season) for the macaws, and like the outside songbirds, they are acting nutty. They are chewing like mad to make nests out of whatever they can get, begging to be hand fed, flirting with whatever human walks into their room, and generally acting moody.
 
Here is my list of exotic pets I've had in the past:

Raccoon

Pony (not sure if that's really exotic or not)

House Finch I caught out of the wild. I had her for years.

Several turtles

Two wild rabbits adopted me as their "mother" Well, they let me feed them and one actually let me pet her.

Guinea Pig

Hamsters
 
I just have to ask how a cantankerous turtle expresses its displeasure! It growls? It barks? It hides and makes grouchy noises in its shell?

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Mark Twain ;-)
 
"I just have to ask how a cantankerous turtle expresses its displeasure! It growls? It barks? It hides and makes grouchy noises in its shell?"


Ha-ha!

He hisses!


I have to watch myself when he gets fed, especially the dried mealworms that he loves. I put them on a spoon and carefully put them in the water so the surface tension keeps them afloat. Once the turtle got so excited to be fed, he snapped at the spoon, I guess thinking he was reaching for a worm, and snatched the spoon right out of my hand. Very startling!
 
I have a Blue & Gold Macaw and two Congo African Grey parrots. They are quite chatty. I had a rat in high school. What a great pet that was!

There seem to be a lot of bird people here. :)

Susan

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." - Anatole France

http://www.picturetrail.com/dogs2birds
 
Susan, you're not implying that we're all bird brains are you? :p LOL!
You're right though, there are a lot of us that have birds. My folks used to have a Blue and Gold Macaw, his name was George. He needed too much attention so they had to get rid of him. They also at one point had an african grey, his name was Joe. They had adopted him from a neighbor that was moving and didn't want him anymore. He was funny. He was a jerk, so he was called a jerk alot. So, he would say, "Joe's a jerk". My dad and that bird fought a lot, don't ask. But the bird picked up on a few things, like "You're an a@!hole". OR F@!k you. That was an intersting way to bring a boyfriend into your house. They would hear that and just look around and say, did that bird just say what I thought he said to me?! LOL! It was hilarious! Anyway, they ended up giving him to a breader. He kept biting people, so they couldn't keep him.

Kathy
 
Kathy - a bunch of bird brains? Hmmm...just kidding!

Yup - birds are a lot of work. They are extremely social and require (demand) lots of attention. Luckily we love to give ours attention (we did a lot of research before ever getting our first parrot). One of our Greys bites a lot. I think she had a more difficult past before we got her. She's not very trusting. So we just open her cage and she has a playtop on it and she can come out on her own and play. There are rare moments when she wants to be held too. But she's just happy playing with her toys and talking up a storm. And she loves to get us all singing Popeye the Sailor Man with her. :) We just accept them and love them all for who they are. We (people) cage them and then expect them to behave in a way that we think they should and that must be so hard for them. I wouldn't promote breeding parrots now (we DID buy our first one from a breeder about 10 or so years ago - the other two had previous homes - one had an owner die and the other was in a divorce situation where the man didn't like her at all, poor baby) because I just don't think it's fair and too many of them get abused b/c people don't know what to expect or how to handle them. I've learned too much about the abuse in the last 10 years. They're very sensitive and it's so hard to hear about.

It's gonna take me an hour to climb down off this soapbox. SORRY!

Susan

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." - Anatole France

http://www.picturetrail.com/dogs2birds
 
>Does the flippin' cardinal who's been flying into my upper
>cabin windows since March 27 (and still strongly banging his
>head as of this date) count?x(

ROFLMAO!!:7
 
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