Your Strange Pets

[Janice]

I have several cats and one dog, but this iguana lives somewhere in our backyard and loves our pool. He hides very well in the bushes and trees.

[alicia-w]

very cool. we just have two dogs who arent very bright.

[TexasStooge]

My family has 6 cats (3 males and 3 females). 2 of the males have very interesting meows, Alegria has a meow that sounds like Tarzan, and Samuel has a Barry White type of meow.

[Janice]

Last year when TS Jeanne was heading towards us, my husband went up in a tree and rescued these new kittens. They are minx, they have no tails. They are really sweet and we have not found homes for them yet.

[feederband]

As far as strange pets we have a very large slimy tree frog with large orange eyes...We don't know where he goes during the day but when we turn on our front door light he is always there and clings to the wall all nite and eats the bugs that come to light..He is larger than my hand and has been their for over a year.. Kind of weird but we actually say hello to it as we walk though the door..

[Kelarie]

We have a barnswallow nest over our door. They have already had two clutches of babies. And the entire family stays around the house. There is alot of poo, but alot less bugs. I am willing for the trade off. Plus the baby birds are so cute.

[Skywatch_NC]

We have a frog that lives among our Earthbox garden on the back deck of our townhouse.

Eric

[alicia-w]

okay, i give. what's an earthbox garden. whatever it is, it sounds cool.

[Skywatch_NC]

okay, i give. what's an earthbox garden. whatever it is, it sounds cool.

Here you go, Alicia

http://www.earthbox.com/

[alicia-w]

thanks! that's very neat. i'll have to get a few. sorry for hijacking your thread, Janice.

[Skywatch_NC]

thanks! that's very neat. i'll have to get a few. sorry for hijacking your thread, Janice.

No problem, Janice

[stormie_skies]

I have two parrots. One is a 5 year old cockatoo who enjoys doing upside-down flips around his perches. He doesn't talk much, never has ... he says hello and whistles but thats about it. He loves everyone.

The other is a 3 year old green-winged macaw who I hand weaned....he is my baby and really only lets me handle him, but he likes to have conversations with everyone. He calls my cat, yells at my dog, sticks his tounge out at people and laughs, and asks everyone for a kiss (I have to advise them against it).

They are both still considered babies and will most likely outlive me...so I guess I will have to have a parrot provision in my will.

[bevgo]

Right now I only have a cat but in the past have had a rat, Tarantula, and ferret. They belonged to my son but lived in my house. LOL

[Terry]

Janice - you already know about my Manx cat named Charley. (she really is strange!)

And our 3 other cats, two dogs and 3 birds. The BlueJay is strange because he makes perfect pitch sounds like: #1 a cockatiel, #2 a parrot, #3 an Osprey, #4 my oven timer!

And I have six hermit crabs.

My zoo, my life.

[Astro_man92]

I have two funny black cats

[beachbum_al]

I don't know about strange but he is very lazy!

[WXFIEND]

I used to have hermies. They're sweet, no?

I have a very old cat... and also

two guinea pigs. No fellow piggie owners on the board?

I love them to do though.. they're the cutest SWEETEST littel blobs of love ever.

[JenBayles]

Aside from Maggie-her-Puppy-Pieness-on-her-Throne, Chica Pet (shepherd mix), Petey Bird (cockateil) and Fred & Wilma (two HUGE goldfish), we have a gazillion birds at 3 feeders, coons, possums, armadillos and even a few rats, who thankfully, have not ventured to the house.

[vbhoutex]

In the past I have had squirrels as pets twice. Both were nursed from infancy till they turned back wild. And both would come when we called them till they both finally stayed "wild", if you call at least coming and staring at you when called from not to far away in a tree unlike most which run the other way. Ist one was called peanut and the second one was called beechnut. Our first was raised in the house at first and then we hung a cage on the outside of the house with its door open which he used till he went back to the "wild" for good. We had an iquana once too.

[Jim Cantore]

I got an Iguana he's 4 years old and already almost 5 feet long