Mirrodie From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 7421 posts, RR: 65 Posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 2775 times:
I ran across an article about someone who raised a flying squirrel.
Does anyone hear have a pet flying squirrel (sugar glider)? Any other weird pets you may own???
We have a schanuzer, a kitten and a conure (bird).
The conure is our most 'exotic.'
What are yours?
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JetService From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4798 posts, RR: 13 Reply 2, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2738 times:
I had a Mexican Red-legged Taratula as a kid. It lived to be about 24 years old. She was very tame and docile. Best pet I ever had. They're not noisy and you only have to feed them about once a month. Also, you're never supposed to clean their cages. I think they are endangered now. Ahhh, what a beauty she was.
JamesAg96 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 2095 posts, RR: 8 Reply 3, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2726 times:
KROC From United States of America, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 76 Reply 4, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2722 times:
I have a dog, 2 cats and a trouser snake that changes lenghts in different situations.
"Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again"
JetService From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4798 posts, RR: 13 Reply 5, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 2736 times:
Come on KROC, trouser-snake your pet? I think we know who's the pet and who's the master in that relationship.
IHadAPheo From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 6026 posts, RR: 59 Reply 6, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 2718 times:
2 dogs Dalmatian and Chihuahua
3 cats
1 ferret
Trouser-Snake hmm???
Do you pet your pet?? and what about the venom??
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Victech From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 546 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 2714 times:
Airplanetire From United States of America, joined May 2001, 1809 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 2700 times:
I sort of have what could be considered "semi-exotic." My only pet is a dog, but a pretty strange one, at least for the US. I don't know about other parts of the world for the breed. She is a whippet. Whippets are sort of like 1/3rd sized grey hounds. My dog is 28 pounds/13kg (sorry, I don't know how to convert that to kg, so it might be wrong). She is also very skinny. I wish I could get in the minds of people that have seen me taking her for a walk and don't know what she is. They probably think I'm starving her, seeing that "poor", "emaciated" thing.
Mirrodie From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 7421 posts, RR: 65 Reply 11, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 2685 times:
Dripstick, I always look forward to your pics! Cute.
Actually, I have heard of Whippets and seen photos, but never met an owner. Very cool. Would you post a photo here?
No squirrel owners, eh?
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Dripstick From Canada, joined Dec 2001, 2364 posts, RR: 24 Reply 12, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 2682 times:
Niles Crane had a Whippet in an episode of Frasier.
Frasier: " ... she's a canine substitute for Maris ... She is high strung, cold to the touch and ignores you. My God, stand her upright, take 10 lbs. off her, put her in a Chanel suit and what have you got!"
HeederA380 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 165 posts, RR: 1 Reply 13, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 2669 times:
Whippets: Aren't they supposed to be the "fastest dogs in the world" or something? I think I remember reading that once in a book about dogs?
Flying squirrels: That was in Reader's Digest, wasn't it? I saw the article to which you were referring, and it made me kind of wish that I had a flying squirrel, too.
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29352 posts, RR: 62 Reply 14, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 2670 times:
I have a Dalmation...
She had puppies on monday. Six of them.
I don't know who Daddy dog is but he better watch out for me
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TurbineBeaver From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 1199 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 2654 times:
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OzarkD9S From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 4682 posts, RR: 23 Reply 22, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 2588 times:
Technically I don't OWN him, but I have a slave-boy who stops by from time to time for some "obedience training".
Mirrodie From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 7421 posts, RR: 65 Reply 23, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 2573 times:
Yep, that reader's digest article had me wishing the same.
Yep, I can't spell schnauzer late at night. So I call him Billy.
There isn't much on the internet about howe to keep a flying squirrel as a pet. Too bad, seemed like a cool one to have.
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B747skipper From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 24, posted (10 years 7 months 2 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 2593 times:
Just to add my two "centavos" here...
xxx
I have two Siamese cats (and they are twin sisters too) - model "Seal Points" - with the standard blue eyes, 4 years old... no way to differentiate them, so one has a blue neck collar, the other one has a red one...
The problem is that my son thinks it's funny to trade their collars, darned kid...
xxx
The other pet is a dog... 3 years old... named Nikita...
Siberian Husky, a Mr. Dog... confuses my shoes and the trees...
Obviously, he barks in Spanish, but this, with a Russian accent...
I heard he had an affair with a tall lady French Poodle at the parc...
xxx
Then my favorite pet, my wife Marcela... quite exotic... 1969 model...
crossbreed, 75% Italian, 25% Guarani (native tribe of N. Argentina)...
By luck she does not speak English - she would kill me with her fangs...
xxx
(s) Skipper
25 AA61hvy: i had a prarie dog, her name was daisy, she died earlier in the year of old age.
26 Airplanetire: I'll post a picture of the breed of my dog (Whippet) and try to post an actual picture of her later. Picture of breed: That one has coloring almost ex
27 Mirrodie: whippet good!! Very cool. That's the breed I had in mind. Do they make good family pets?
28 Airplanetire: Mirrodie, she's an excellent family pet! She doesn't snap at people if they were to pet her while eating (good aspect for families with little childre
29 Trickijedi: I don't own any exotic pets (in fact I don't own any pets at all) but I used to date a girl who owned an iguana and a bunch of deadly spiders. Needles
30 Brianhames: I have a couple of sugar gliders, they are like flying squirrels but also they are marsupials. They really suck though so I'm getting rid of them...
31 Lubcha132: L-188 good luck finding the deadbeat dad!
32 Sushka: Right now I have a Russian cat... I used to have: sheep, a cow, a snake, 7 dogs, 2 cats, 2 guinea pigs, 2 birds, 1 hamster. I really would like to get
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