What are some different and wierd house pets?

You Can Call Me: Lauren asked:


i know a couple people who own little sharks. I’ve heard you can own a freshwater stingray (are those even real??). Ive seen a video where someone had a pet penguin and it caried around a little pingu backpack (so cute). What other wierd pets have you heard of that are legal.
the penguin was in japan lol
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14 Comments

  1. Nadiiee
    Posted April 18, 2009 at 5:21 am | Permalink

    well monkey’s and mini hores and well little radents liek from africa and well getting excotic fish is kool but alsolike doggs that are inter bredd are kool

  2. Mimik
    Posted April 20, 2009 at 2:44 am | Permalink

    I always thought having a pet cricket was pretty cool.

  3. Angela L
    Posted April 21, 2009 at 5:18 pm | Permalink

    Well, most people think it’s weird that I have house rabbits that have huge pens, play in my living room every day, and are just as much a part of the family as my cats.

    And yes, freshwater stingrays are real. I’ve seen them at a specialty aquarium store. But they need HUGE tanks, very special diets, and are delicate.

  4. meissen97
    Posted April 24, 2009 at 8:37 am | Permalink

    Legal is the important word. Penguins would more than likely not be legal. Depending on where you live most animals outside of cats and dogs are in some way illegal or require special licenses.

    Back home in Mass there was a town that outlawed ferrets because they bit people but that was also the same town that was ok with having less than ten goats.

  5. ESweetPea
    Posted April 25, 2009 at 9:24 pm | Permalink

    I considered getting one of those enormous millipedes (it was like, a foot long. Huge.)

    I’ve wanted an octopus since I saw a nature show about them. This research facility had one in a tank and kept the crabs to feed it in another tank nearby. Every morning, they would find crab shells in the octopus’s tank…but nobody was feeding the octopus.

    Finally, they watched it one night–the octopus was climbing out of its tank, walking across the floor (well, I guess you could call it walking), climbing up to the crab tank, getting a crab, and walking back to its own tank.

    It would get back in its own tank to eat and leave the crab shell in there, I guess, to counfound its owners.

    Awesome.

    Or a squid–they can flash biophosphorescent lights and they’re as smart as octopi.

    Cephalopods are definitely the way to go.

  6. Hannah J
    Posted April 26, 2009 at 5:20 am | Permalink

    My sister has a chinesse water dragon it’s pretty cool also we went to a local reptile show and their was a legless lizard.

  7. bOwGiRl_594480
    Posted April 28, 2009 at 12:24 am | Permalink

    another weird pet is an naked hairless rat

  8. Jamie
    Posted April 30, 2009 at 11:10 pm | Permalink

    without a license:
    squirrels
    puffer fish(freah water)
    degus
    suger glider
    servil cats
    some monkeys
    wolfdogs
    coydogs
    fennec foxes
    red tail hawk(only if necciary)
    camelion
    lamma
    um…
    ummmm…i can think of more _
    was that enough for ya to chew on?
    ^.^

  9. Mark G
    Posted May 2, 2009 at 5:16 pm | Permalink

    Most any exotic animal would be on odd pet, but if you want to know a wierd pet go get yourself a mud skipper, they are legal to own still if I remember right.

    As for that penguin video, its from Japan, and owning a penguin without the proper licences is extreamly illegal in the US, you have to prove that you can care and provide for the animal before they will even consider granting you a licence for a penguin.

  10. wozzy
    Posted May 3, 2009 at 6:08 am | Permalink

    mate i have a millipede but it never comes out of its box.
    now i found out why.
    its only putting its boots on.

  11. angie v
    Posted May 3, 2009 at 6:24 pm | Permalink

    Theres was a woman who had a pet bat. She kept it in her shirt and it never bit her.

  12. Bonsylar
    Posted May 6, 2009 at 12:21 pm | Permalink

    My friend has a chicken. It wears a diaper and runs around the house like a dog.

    She got it as a joke gift, but she fell in love.

    Takes care of her roach problem like a charm. She’s never seen any bugs at all since she got the chicken.

    It attacks toes though, you can’t walk barefoot. And lays eggs, but she doesn’t mind that!

  13. omgimbeast
    Posted May 9, 2009 at 2:12 pm | Permalink

    a chicken is a great idea they follow you and are very smart
    they do lay eggs and eat bugs
    and mine things she is a watch dog

  14. yahooyahoocasidy
    Posted May 10, 2009 at 11:09 pm | Permalink

    ok,this will sound silly but some ppl have alligotars and even mini horses as house pets looking for a smaller size ?monkey.less trouble ?snake .use your imagination choose your pet bassed on wat you like not how weird !

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