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Anyone had/have unusual pets?

I had a pet rat called Norm (after the guy from Cheers), he loved to be let out of his cage & explore round the flat, but he'd come to me when I called his name. He loved alcohol (I eventually got him his own little thimble to drink from) and ahem herbal cigarettes - my ex-girlfriend once found me fighting him over the last little lump in my stash - I'm pinching it between my forefinger and thumb, Norms hanging off it by the teeth - but not letting go  :D . I never let him eat it though - but he'd sit on my shoulder so he could smell it when I breathed out.

I had a raven for a few months when I was a kid - but as it was about the time of Damien - the Omen, other kids got scared when he flew down to land on my shoulder. He got frightened off by a firework display, but a a few months later I was hillwalking and he flew down and landed on me - about 4 miles from my home in a valley with a good population of ravens, so I was glad he didn't follow me home.

used to have a garter snake ,which i carried round in my pocket .

used to take it to the match with me

My kids had a little brown hamster called Pepsi

We had a great big Bernese Mountain Dog too

I used to have the job of cleaning out the cage once a week, and would put the Hamster into a little green plastic ball which it would happily roll around in on the kitchen floor, usually chased by my kids and the dog. My idea was the trauma of this would shorten Pepsi's life expectancy dramatically, thus saving me this chore which my then wife resolutely refused to share

So here I am cleaning the hamster cage and and its just me and the dog, everyone else being out

Well sadly I failed to screw the lid onto the plastic ball tight enough and then next thing I knew I saw a little brown thing being chased across the shiny parquet floor by the dog, and then the dog coming back to its cushion with Pepsi in its mouth.

Cue trip to Pets at Home quick for one replacement brown hamster!

The kids never knew.

Not an unusual pet, but we had two budgies years ago. Tweet and Sarah. Tweet was a chap.

I think they had a bit of a domestic one night, as the next morning, Tweet had had one of his feet bitten off and was sat on the bottom of the cage looking exceptionally sorry for himself. Sarah was looking rather full and happily swinging on her perch.

Tweet knew his place freom that day on.

I've had a snake and a terapin, nothing else that could be classed as unusual.

I have a pet trantula called fang! 2 black cats with no names! 2 bunnies, 4 kids, 1 old man!

iv got a WIFE does that count

Almost forgot Samson, our adopted Rottweiler we have at the weekends 8)

I have a spider plant called Gerald. I got him when Nigel Benn beat Gerald Mcclellland( sp?) in about 93. I was a McClelland suporter and named my plant after him.  When I got him he was in a pot noddle container and was stil too small for that. Now he is in a massive pot which is his 9th home since I got him.  I am searching around for a big enough pot for his re-pot in July. He is a fine pet.

He has alot of kids and some even live as far away as Nebraska. He doesn't get to vist them as he finds it difficult to find any seats big enough for him on flights. We did search round for a cheap flight once, but it was just too upsetting as we knew he would be turned down. His youngest son ( Summer 2005 ) now works in a coffee shop in Nebraska.  His oldest son is called Lucutes and lives in Glasgow with one of my friends.

stop, please stop  :D

i once had a skunk plant but its gone up in smoke

i have 3 sgrimp, oh iflopped quad 4's wow............sry distracted. i have 4 sry i mean 3 shrimp in my fish tank.

We used to have two tortoises roaming our gardens.

They were ace :)

Older than me too, had been in the family for years.

I used to have a chillean rose tarantula, she was a lovely pink colour.

also used to keep fish and bought what we thought was a little eel,
even the guy in the shop didn't know what it was,
6 months later it turns out to be an American bullfrog  :D

He grew too big for his tank and we bought him a new one, which he hated, one day he jumped and knocked himself out on the lid of the tank and died the next day  ;goodvevil;

Ang x x

Yup, we had two tortoises, too. Popeye & Olive.

Chickens & Pullits (?) too - but they were not pets - they were for eggs, & eating. Grandad Angell used to catch one at Christmas & wring it's neck, then I was given the horrendously difficult job of plucking the damn thing. Happy days. Not.

Not my pet but my Uncles....he had an alligator called monty! How class is that! He dies a few years back, he had heart problems. Feeding time was fun!

there was this spider in my bathroom.

You just couldnt kill it, it knew when you was coming and would run away back down the side of the bath.

we just had to learn to get along with it and adopted it as our pet.

then one day it didnt come out any more and we never saw it again.

i've never been the same :(

Maybe it ran off with a rich Money Spider!

Ruths spider is a big hairy ugly... oh no hang on, thats Leon I'm talking about... back to the point... Ruths spider is Ewwwww!!

I once had a pet rolcar, never again!

i used to have an Iguana . got him 10 years ago and was only 5in long . he lived till 7 and ended up 6ft long ( his body was 2ft and the rest was tail )
called him Puff as in the dragon
I will put some photos on in the morning
I bought him when i stayed in stoke on trent at the time . so brought him up when i came back for the weekend
i had a transit van from the work so put the tank in the back .when i got here and opened the van the lid had come of and he ran straight down the street
dont know if any of the neigbours saw it but must of thought i had lost it
me chasing a 4ft iguana (at the time) down the street shouting ....come here puff..  

Classic! rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

I have a ferret called Foggy!

He's ace!

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/05/monkeyhasapet.html

Oh and as a youngster i used to breed stick insects then sell them to the pet shop for 5p each. Not much i hear you say but i tell you when them things begin to lay eggs it would be like a biblical plague!!  :D

My little sister brought her class stick insects home for the easter holidays, and they escaped - we got them back OK, but they'd laid eggs in some of the houseplants. baby stick insects everywhere.  :D