OT: Most obscure pet you (or someone close to you) has had in their house

[huskypantz]

Had a short-tailed opossum for a year or so.

 

[Improviser]

Had a short-tailed opossum for a year or so.

Did it obey commands and show affection to you?

Was it housebroken?

How did it react to strangers? Did it bite when upset?

I know nothing about them. These questions I would also ask to the BY'er who owned the de-scented skunk if he is still following the tread.

 

[superjohn]

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.

That sounds like Dahmer.

 

[huskypantz]

Did it obey commands and show affection to you?

Was it housebroken?

How did it react to strangers? Did it bite when upset?

I know nothing about them. These questions I would also ask to the BY'er who owned the de-scented skunk if he is still following the tread.

No, no, no, didn’t care, did not bite. They’re not bad pets but they are nocturnal which can be annoying depending on where the tank/cage is.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Had a short-tailed opossum for a year or so.

Nightmare fuel.

 

[SallyH]

When we lived in Caracas, the company had a warehouse full of furniture from which families could choose, as families were rotated in and out. We had a furniture allowance and everybody bought new mattresses, but choosing furniture from warehouse didn't affect your allowance. Not us, but everyone talked about the family who had a pet ocelot and their furniture was ripped to shreds and not subject to recycling. Rumor had it that they lived in a 10 story building and one day the cat made it to the balcony and leaped off, landed on its feet only to run away and get hit by a vehicle.

 

[superjohn]

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.

Cats are awesome, I have a story about a cat torturer who also used to roll homeless people at night. Guy went on to be a crooked cop. People who torture cats or any other animals are sociopaths.

 

[Hoophound]

Did it obey commands and show affection to you?

Was it housebroken?

How did it react to strangers? Did it bite when upset?

I know nothing about them. These questions I would also ask to the BY'er who owned the de-scented skunk if he is still following the tread.

I knew a family that had a skunk when I was a kid. I’m not sure how they ended up with it. As I remember it, it didn’t really interact with people very much. It used to hide behind the sofa a lot.

I think it was litter box trained and ate cat food.

 

[Austin316]

Bubbles? Did you go to HS with The King of Pop?

Nah. This guy I grew up with who’s dad was apart of breeding endangered animals for zoos kept a monkey. Back then it was weird... police were all up his butt about permits

 

[husky429]

Cats are awesome, I have a story about a cat torturer who also used to roll homeless people at night. Guy went on to be a crooked cop. People who torture cats or any other animals are sociopaths.

Of course he would become a cop. Jesus.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Pretty much my favorite animal ever is a Liger, it's a Lion and Tiger mixed, bred for it's skills and magic.

Tina, you fat lard, come get some dinner.

 

[temery]

I had a pet rock.

 

[RichZ]

We (my wife really) had an aquarium set up for mudskippers. Have to admit, they are fascinating to watch.

 

[XLCenterFan]

I went to a cookout once like 4 years ago and some kid there had a Sugar Glider. It was like a mini-squirrel with webbed extremities. He kept it in the pocket of his hoodie or just in his hands and it chilled the whole time.

I also had a buddy once who caught a real squirrel and it was super friendly. He fed/kept if for like 3 weeks and even brought it out to bars with him and it would just chill on his shoulder. Said it got him laid one night because some chick thought it was "so cute." Eventually it bit him and ran off somewhere into his house. He found it dead a few days later. He went to get tested for rabies and didn't have it thankfully.

 

[jdb50]

We had a white lab rat as a pet in the early 80's. Kept it in an aquarium with a wire top while we were at work but let it out when we got home from work. It was a good friend back in the day and was happy to see us when we got home. Have had dogs and rabbits and chickens since. Back in the early 70's worked for a vegetable farmer. The possum post sparked the memory. The farmer caught a possum in the barn and gave it to me to take it out in the woods to dispatch. I was not into that so I brought the possum out into the woods and let it go. The possum was caught again the next day and the farmer told me to get rid of it or else. So I went out into the woods with the possum and beat it to death with a branch. At 15 years old I thought to myself geez the world is screwed up.

 

[glastonbury50]

When we lived in Caracas, the company had a warehouse full of furniture from which families could choose, as families were rotated in and out. We had a furniture allowance and everybody bought new mattresses, but choosing furniture from warehouse didn't affect your allowance. Not us, but everyone talked about the family who had a pet ocelot and their furniture was ripped to shreds and not subject to recycling. Rumor had it that they lived in a 10 story building and one day the cat made it to the balcony and leaped off, landed on its feet only to run away and get hit by a vehicle.

When my Dad was 10 his Father brought him to the Boston Art Museum to see Salvador Dali. Apparently Dali had a pet ocelot with him. My Dad doest remember Dali at all, all he remembers is the ocelot.