if you could have ANY kind of exotic animal as a pet

[Blue_Tires]

what would it be? assuming of course you could afford care, food, shelter, training, and lets add for the sake of argument that the animal would be happy...

pick one specific animal from these families

[Blue-Jay]

1. Whatever won't eat me, hurt me, poison me or fling poop.

Maybe a dog would be OK.

An EXOTIC dog.

(But not an erotic dog. That would be weird.)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. I want a crow.

Not as a pet, exactly...more as a friend. I'd want him to feel free to come and go as he chose; but I'd like to spend some quality time with him.

[tigereye]

13. there are some who roost across the street

please feel free to visit em anytime! I think they are quite intelligent and interested in human endeavors.

hi Goddess.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. OOoo! Tigereye, the MOD!

Congrats and thanks!

I'd love to visit with crows. They seem so intelligent.

[minkyboodle]

33. amazingly intelligent

And very social. They are always my favorite birds to observe, actually
a childhood friend of mines uncle had a semi tame crow. He lived on a
farm and hand raised a nestling (I know its not the best thing to do) and
it came and went and stayed pretty tame into adulthood. The crow could speak
and it said about 5-10 words, they were raspy but very understandable. It
was a bit rough (you had to wear gloves) once grown up but always came
by for the food. Thinking back I'm sure it was some how damaged by
being raised by a human. Crows travel in social packs and I wonder if it
was ever able to join one. I had an experience where a fully fledged crow
fell out of its nest into my yard. After making sure it wasn't sick or
injured we read it was best to leave it alone. He hid for a day but then
he was calling/begging to his flock/family. Sure enough they brought it food
and called to it to try get it to fly. After about 4-5 days he did just that,
although rather badly. I observed the youngster hanging with the flock and it was
obvious the crow was learning various things from them and still begged when they
had food. I would guess it took months for him to learn the life skills
(let alone social) required for him to barely function in the group. The
semi tame crow never got this and I bet it suffered for it in the real world.
I will admit though I've always dreamed of having a friendship with a neighborhood
crow and to have one perched on the arm. The whole raven family is so damn
interesting and intelligent.
Minkyboodle

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. Sounds like they take care of their own....

Thanks for the post! :toast:

[haf216]

3. There are so many I could never pick.

[Ron Green]

4. Other: a wolfboy.

[Qanisqineq]

5. I'd want a penguin

I want to watch it waddle around the house.

[dysfunctional press]

6. a tiger, a cheetah, & a male lion would be way cool...

as long as we're living in a world where they would behave exactly as my three smaller versions do now.

it would be great to lay in bed with a lion purring next to you.

[Blue_Tires]

7. i forgot to voice my own opinion

a panda bear would be fun, but what would really be cool are killer bees (provided i could train them to NOT attack me and attack other people!):evilgrin: :think: :crazy: :scared:

[TK421]

9. If I could get killer bees to attack other people, I would be in the news

but not in a good way, mind you

[grannylib]

8. Small cat..not anything so big as a lion or tiger, but more like an ocelot

or that other thingy, can't remember it's name, small thing about the size of a sheltie maybe...my brain is tired! Can't think of what it is.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Ocelots rule.

[hyphenate]

21. You are perhaps thinking of

a serval? Or a bobcat or lynx?

[stuntcat]

24. yes

That's what I say too, exotic but not so big it could kill me!

[Ikonoklast]

44. See 'Savannah'

Newer domestic breed that is a cross between a Serval and a domestic cat.








Such a beautiful animal.

[Arugula Latte]

45. Oh my gawd that's beautiful...

:loveya:

[Blue_Tires]

10. ttt nt

[MonkeyFunk]

11. a baby hippo

[tigereye]

14. they are really cute, aren't they

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. Monkey.

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. An elephant

:loveya:

[Little Wing]

17. Panther

[seemunkee]

18. Wallaby

I saw one at our vets office one time and thought that would be a pretty cool pet.

[Radical Activist]

19. Buffalo

With my own field of prairie grass.

[otherlander]

26. Get your free buffalo from the Department of the Interior.

Don't let them tell you that you don't need one. Don't take any shit from those petty bureaucrats.

[Radical Activist]

66. haha

I do kind of like the idea of a government program to give away free buffalo. Its just believable enough.

[u4ic]

27. Have you heard of Bailey?

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/4032/


:)

[Radical Activist]

67. awesome

Those people are my heroes.

[u4ic]

68. I have a friend who saw them

on a country road last fall (she lives in the town next to Spruce Grove, where Bailey lives). The owner was walking him with a halter and lead shank, and a woman was on the other side of Bailey, riding a horse.

She was cycling, and stopped to talk to them and pet Bailey. :bounce:

[Kickin_Donkey]

20. Dolphin or porpoise ...

they can be really affectionate.

[hyphenate]

22. My first choice is a tiger

as long as he was a happy tiger, and didn't eat me or the smaller kits.

However, there are a couple I could enjoy as well: a koala bear, a lemur, a snowy owl, a polar bear, a goat, a horse--gee, almost any mammal, in the long run. I love almost every one of them out there, as long as they aren't of the insectoid branch of life. I personally wouldn't want a snake, though I don't mind them, because they lack the ability to show affection unlike mammals. (Some herpetologists might disagree with that, but that's been my experience.)

[Pacifist Patriot]

23. Daniel Craig

[SusanaMontana41]

28. My then-roommate

raised exotic parrots. Nothing like having a yellow-naped Amazon sing opera to you every morning.

"What's the matter, huuuuh? Whatcha doin', huuuuuh?"

Classic. I miss those birds.

[philosophie_en_rose]

29. None. "Exotic" animals usually shouldn't be pets.

Let alone my pets. They'd likely eat my terriers and I just don't have the proper home for a wild animal.

If I had to choose, I'd probably say bees. Bees are at least useful.

[minkyboodle]

31. true

I answered but was tempted to say just that. Bees as they exist in
commercial honey production are actually domesticated European Bees
very different than wild bees. So you could have em!! :)

[Chan790]

36. I'm with you on Exotics not being appropriate pets.

But I hate bees. Allergic, as well.

[minkyboodle]

30. Giant River Otter

[GumboYaYa]

39. THere was a show on National Geographic last night about a lady who

raised a Giant River Otter. It was sooooo cute.

[minkyboodle]

47. actually I did

Thats kind of what prompted the thought. It was
very interesting although kind of sad at the end. I think
the lady had a really difficult task trying to teach that
otter how to survive in the wild, they are such a social
animal and depend so much on their families. It was probably
an impossible task. Still it was interesting. I have 4
very domestic ferrets (people think of them as exotic but
they are as domestic or more as cats). Its amazing how
similar ferrets and otters play etc except our weasels hate
the water!
Minkyboodle

[GumboYaYa]

49. I fell asleep before the end, but I kind of figured it would not be a happy

ending. My wife and I both were saying there is no way we could ever let that cute little guy go back to the wild. I guess that's one of the many reasons we aren't wildlife scientists.

[minkyboodle]

50. yeah it was sad

although she didn't find his body so there is still a chance
he just struck out on his own. She hopes to find him during
her research but I'm afraid it was a small chance. One nice
thing for her is that the family that sort of befriended her
kit Sanchez remembered her and allowed her to observe them
close up and even see their little young ones. So in that way
Sanchez gave her and her research a big gift. Still sad though.
Minkyboodle

[femmedem]

40. Did you see the otters holding hands?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=243x25078

[minkyboodle]

46. awwww

that is off the scale on the cuteness meter! :) Thanks for the link.

[mike_c]

32. this kind....

[InvisibleTouch]

35. Of those I haven't had yet?

Tiger.

[xchrom]

37. robb -- cause who doesn't love the endangered wild Hottie?

[BreweryYardRat]

38. Cougar.

Hands down.

[jmowreader]

41. Lionfish

The lionfish is the perfect introduction to marine fish--ones that live in saltwater.

They're very weird-looking, yet eerily beautiful.

They're extremely hardy.

They'll eat damn near anything, so long as it's still alive.

And their venomous fins will teach your children to keep their hands out of the water.

Some moran dumped a breeding pair of Volitans lions in the Atlantic off Hatteras; they were first observed in 2000. Now there's a good population of them, so I really doubt they'd mind much if I found someone to go out there and capture one for me.

[Rambis]

42. As a kid I wanted a black panther

Don't know why it could have been all the cheesy black panther sculptures of the 1970's seeping into my brain.

[TX-RAT]

48. Black Panthers don't exist.

[Rambis]

51. I didn't know that

I guess it is a jaguar or leopard technically. I am glad I didn't get a black cat and coop it up somewhere.

[TX-RAT]

56. Not trying to be a smart ass, hope it wasn't taken that way.

On another board we got into the discussion of Black Panthers. Seems many people claim to have seen one. Black Panther = Black Cougar or Mountain Lion.

[Rambis]

58. No worries!

Cheers!

[hellbound-liberal]

43. A koala or maybe a panda. Any small herbivourous bears would be good.

Something cute and furry.

[youthere]

52. A liger.

GOSH!!!!

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

55. Found one for you:

[Blue-Jay]

59. I don't think anybody wants one of those roaming around their back yard.

They're HUGE!

They also tend to be very placid, but still....screw that. If that big boy gets hungry enough, he'll eat you.

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

53. Big cat!

I would love to have one of three (in this order):

1. White Bengal Tiger
2. Black panther (I have two tattos)
3. Jaguar


The funny thing is, I can't stand cats!!! :hide:

(For the cat lovers: don't jump me!!!)

[Rob H.]

54. Leopard, probably

Of course that presupposes that it would never get hungry/annoyed/playful enough to do me any serious injury...

[matcom]

57. Koala Bear - or that photoshopped squirrel with the really big testicles

i simply can't quite decide

[HuffleClaw]

60. Zooboomafoo!

a ring-tailed lemur would be a pretty cool pet

[u4ic]

61. A Snuffleupagus

:bounce:

[bigwillq]

62. Exotic animals belong in the wild!

:mad:

[Blue_Tires]

64. yes....yes they do

luckily no animals are harmed by hypothetical discussion:silly:

[femmocrat]

63. Marmosets. Also a panda (which I don't think is technically a bear?)

[jmm]

65. I already have my dream exotic pet

This is my chinchilla Narmer about a month ago. I would take a pic of him right now but he's running in his wheel.

[RushIsRot]

69. I want a pet skunk.

[njdemocrat106]

70. I want a seal!

As long as it doesn't bite my hands off (which I heard they're pretty good at doing).