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temery said:
A not de-scented skunk?

My cat has befriended a skunk. They chase each other around the yard, and both eat from the food bowl I leave on the back porch. I draw the line at letting the skunk Into the house, and if my cat is ever sprayed, he won't be let in any time soon.
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On my wedding night my wife and I were home packing for the trip to DR. We had our bags on the deck just before loading the car. When I went out to get them they were surrounded by four baby skunks.

I loaded the odorless luggage at 4 am instead.
 
Guy in my dorm had a monitor. I was excited to watch feeding time until I watched feeding time and decided I never really needed to see feeding time again...
 
when I was very young we had duck named Peter. We also had a rabbit with a floppy ear named Van Gogh
 
I knew someone who had a Giant Snapping Turtle he kept it in the bathtub with the water about 3/4 full.
 
My Aunt had a chimpanzee as a kid and she lived right in West Hartford. Turns out it bit one of the siblings so they had to get rid of it. This was in the 70's.
 
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Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
Bolton vet is top notch
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Good to know thanks! I haven't been to a doctor in at least 6 years (I know, I know.. haha), but I want my animals to have the best care possible.

The vets at Salmon Brook Vet in Granby saved my last dog. He turned out to be epileptic and had a seizure at maybe age 2 or 3. If they didn't have a real vet on call all the time he would've died. Got on some meds and he was good to go after emergency care. Totally forgot everything for a while though. He didn't know his name, any commands, manners... nothing. Which was rather difficult with a 95lb rottweiler!
 
My father came home with what we all thought was a kitten but it was really odd in many way and turns out it was a Cabot ( half cat, half rabbit) yup. He even called a professor from Uconn to come and take a look. He was the one that told us what we had & offered to purchase it from us. Very cool animal, soft rabbit fur, no claws or tail, had the front of a cat with the hind quarters of a rabbit. When it would walk the front legs walked normally while the rear would hop, now and then it would stumble over its front legs and skid on his chest. Fun to startle too, it would jump straight up 4-5 feet turn and run at fantastic speed. Thanks for bringing back some cool memories @McLovin
I also had a cousin who owned multiple piranhas, Friday night was feeding night.
 
husky429 said:
Good to know thanks! I haven't been to a doctor in at least 6 years (I know, I know.. haha), but I want my animals to have the best care possible.

The vets at Salmon Brook Vet in Granby saved my last dog. He turned out to be epileptic and had a seizure at maybe age 2 or 3. If they didn't have a real vet on call all the time he would've died. Got on some meds and he was good to go after emergency care. Totally forgot everything for a while though. He didn't know his name, any commands, manners... nothing. Which was rather difficult with a 95lb rottweiler!
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Great thing about Bolton Vet is they have 24/7 Emergency.
 
QuickDraw said:
My father came home with what we all thought was a kitten but it was really odd in many way and turns out it was a Cabot ( half cat, half rabbit) yup. He even called a professor from Uconn to come and take a look. He was the one that told us what we had & offered to purchase it from us. Very cool animal, soft rabbit fur, no claws or tail, had the front of a cat with the hind quarters of a rabbit. When it would walk the front legs walked normally while the rear would hop, now and then it would stumble over its front legs and skid on his chest. Fun to startle too, it would jump straight up 4-5 feet turn and run at fantastic speed. Thanks for bringing back some cool memories @McLovin
I also had a cousin who owned multiple piranhas, Friday night was feeding night.
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en.wikipedia.org

Cabbit - Wikipedia

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My son had hermit crabs ( they actually had different personalities) and in college he had an African cockroach. They are much bigger than the common roach and this one kind stayed in one place in an aerated box almost all day eating lettuce. My son is now a professor wildlife biology, endangered birds. Maybe some of them eat African roaches.
 
QuickDraw said:
My father came home with what we all thought was a kitten but it was really odd in many way and turns out it was a Cabot ( half cat, half rabbit) yup. He even called a professor from Uconn to come and take a look. He was the one that told us what we had & offered to purchase it from us. Very cool animal, soft rabbit fur, no claws or tail, had the front of a cat with the hind quarters of a rabbit. When it would walk the front legs walked normally while the rear would hop, now and then it would stumble over its front legs and skid on his chest. Fun to startle too, it would jump straight up 4-5 feet turn and run at fantastic speed. Thanks for bringing back some cool memories @McLovin
I also had a cousin who owned multiple piranhas, Friday night was feeding night.
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Surely you can't be serious.
 
My friend had pet possums and raccoons growing up. Needless to say, her mother was a little out there
 
Would have to say my brother's opossum that moved into his barn. It moved in as a wild animal of course, but after being around him so much it started following him around, then he started hand feeding it, then came the day you'd pull up to the house and he'd be holding an opossum.....
 
QuickDraw said:
My father came home with what we all thought was a kitten but it was really odd in many way and turns out it was a Cabot ( half cat, half rabbit) yup. He even called a professor from Uconn to come and take a look. He was the one that told us what we had & offered to purchase it from us. Very cool animal, soft rabbit fur, no claws or tail, had the front of a cat with the hind quarters of a rabbit. When it would walk the front legs walked normally while the rear would hop, now and then it would stumble over its front legs and skid on his chest. Fun to startle too, it would jump straight up 4-5 feet turn and run at fantastic speed. Thanks for bringing back some cool memories @McLovin
I also had a cousin who owned multiple piranhas, Friday night was feeding night.
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Haven't seen one in a while, but back in the 70's you couldn't go into a bar out west without seeing a mounted jackalope head.
 
i grew up with a kid who had a wallaby and numerous other animals as well.
 
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glastonbury50 said:
My Aunt had a chimpanzee as a kid and she lived right in West Hartford. Turns out it bit one of the siblings so they had to get rid of it. This was in the 70's.
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She's the woman who's friend's face got ripped off?
 
I think I've seen every pet imaginable between my wife's sister and a crackpot that I worked with here's the list of pets they had that weren't the everyday pet even though they had them also. These pets lived in the house

Flying squirrels, raccoon, skunk, sugar glider, giant tortoise, ferret, pig, goat, and a blue macaw that was apparently worth tens of thousands
 
methodology said:
I think I've seen every pet imaginable between my wife's sister and a crackpot that I worked with here's the list of pets they had that weren't the everyday pet even though they had them also. These pets lived in the house

Flying squirrels, raccoon, skunk, sugar glider, giant tortoise, ferret, pig, goat, and a blue macaw that was apparently worth tens of thousands
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This reminds me that we rented a loft one summer on Martha's Vineyard in a house where they had a Vietnamese potbellied pig as a pet. Thankfully, the pig could not climb the stairs to our loft, but we had plenty of interactions with it throughout the summer. Definitely very smart and very stubborn.

The family had a nanny and the pig tortured her. One time it got her purse while she was out of the house and she came home to find all of the contents arranged on the floor, with all her photos organized together and displayed in a way that a serial killer might. That freaked her out real good and she quit a few weeks later.
 
My old boss tells the story of two of his frat brothers at SMU who had a large snake. Every Saturday in the campus eatery they would review the local paper for free kittens. All the coeds would coo over the brothers thinking they were so cute. Needless to say the kittens were fed to the snake every Saturday night.

Pretty sick. But less so than what the Flanagan hockey players would do to cats on the ice at Choate.
 
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NEforceUConn said:
My old boss tells the story of two of his frat brothers at SMU who had a large snake. Every Saturday in the campus eatery they would review the local paper for free kittens. All the coeds would coo over the brothers thinking they were so cute. Needless to say the kittens were fed to the snake every Saturday night.
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They sound like terrible excuses for people.
 
NEforceUConn said:
My old boss tells the story of two of his frat brothers at SMU who had a large snake. Every Saturday in the campus eatery they would review the local paper for free kittens. All the coeds would coo over the brothers thinking they were so cute. Needless to say the kittens were fed to the snake every Saturday night.

Pretty sick. But less so than what the Flanagan hockey players would do to cats on the ice at Choate.
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F those people - I'm a cat guy whether people like it or not, and I genuinely believe anyone who tortures a cat is on some sort of killer/extreme mental disturbance spectrum. It takes a different capacity to do that.
 
NEforceUConn said:
My old boss tells the story of two of his frat brothers at SMU who had a large snake. Every Saturday in the campus eatery they would review the local paper for free kittens. All the coeds would coo over the brothers thinking they were so cute. Needless to say the kittens were fed to the snake every Saturday night.

Pretty sick. But less so than what the Flanagan hockey players would do to cats on the ice at Choate.
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that is some serial killer ____.
 
methodology said:
I think I've seen every pet imaginable between my wife's sister and a crackpot that I worked with here's the list of pets they had that weren't the everyday pet even though they had them also. These pets lived in the house

Flying squirrels, raccoon, skunk, sugar glider, giant tortoise, ferret, pig, goat, and a blue macaw that was apparently worth tens of thousands
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For a second I thought you wrote feral pig.
 
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