mmb617
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Seeing the pet rats thread got me to thinking about all the unconventional, some would say weird, pets we've had. We're old folks who are past this phase now but 30 years ago we enjoyed some odd choices in pets.
Let's start with the snakes. A lot of people are repulsed by snakes, but they aren't really bad as pets. You don't get a lot of feedback from them, but they do get used to being handled and won't bite when big if they get used to you when they're young.
We had a black snake, 3 ball pythons, 3 boa constrictors, a burmese python and a reticulated python.
This is Tiny, the one everyone who met her remembers as she grew from a little bitty baby to 12 ft or so adult. She was also quite docile and didn't mind being handled. She got a lot bigger than she is in this picture.
Another pet was Iggy the Iguana. We had this guy for about 10 years and he grew from maybe 8 inches long to over 5 ft. As he got older he sometimes would bite so we didn't handle him too much. He had a big walk in cage and seemed quite content to lay around and sun himself under the lamp.
And then there was Dandy the mountain lion. We got him as a 6 week old kitten and bottle fed him. We had him 11 years and he grew up to be over 200 lbs.
Here he is as a little fellow.
And then a little bigger.
Let's start with the snakes. A lot of people are repulsed by snakes, but they aren't really bad as pets. You don't get a lot of feedback from them, but they do get used to being handled and won't bite when big if they get used to you when they're young.
We had a black snake, 3 ball pythons, 3 boa constrictors, a burmese python and a reticulated python.
This is Tiny, the one everyone who met her remembers as she grew from a little bitty baby to 12 ft or so adult. She was also quite docile and didn't mind being handled. She got a lot bigger than she is in this picture.
Another pet was Iggy the Iguana. We had this guy for about 10 years and he grew from maybe 8 inches long to over 5 ft. As he got older he sometimes would bite so we didn't handle him too much. He had a big walk in cage and seemed quite content to lay around and sun himself under the lamp.
And then there was Dandy the mountain lion. We got him as a 6 week old kitten and bottle fed him. We had him 11 years and he grew up to be over 200 lbs.
Here he is as a little fellow.
And then a little bigger.