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Just like the title says, what kind of off the wall pet(s) would you want? Myself, I'd love to have a fish tank (with a lockable top) with a lobster and a striper (striped bass) in it. I also want a duck, but that isn't as odd as my other choices.

ETA, please keep your choices non-human and real.

Lucy Liu.

Lucy Liu.

Good choice. :D

As for a non-human, I've wanted an octopus for some time now.

When I was in high school, some guys in my marine biology class kept a lobster for the better part of a year. Then they ate him.

An ocelot, or a Cape buffalo.

Someday I want to move to a farm with my friend George and have rabbits that I can pet.

Charmander

Aardvark.

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a rattlesnake is what I always wanted. As long as it doesn't bite me, I'd love to keep one as a pet.

I've never liked zoos or keeping wild animals in captivity, even if the idea of having a red panda around the place sounds great.

Someday I want to move to a farm with my friend George and have rabbits that I can pet.

Well Lennie, you might just want to keep an eye on that George fellow. It'll end in tears I tell ya.

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The ULTIMATE odd pet? Well that would have to be a monkey in battle gear that waits for you at your house waiting to fight you when you walk in the door.

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pretty much stolen from comedian Dane Cook because i cannot think for myself.

Well Lennie, you might just want to keep an eye on that George fellow. It'll end in tears I tell ya.

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Is that from "Of Mice and Men"? It's been so long since I've read it.

An Aardvark..... not really, just cause I won one and lost it. (see my sig for details)

I would actually love to have a cougar,and actually it's not a total lie that I did at one point.

I worked in wildlife rehabilitation, and a cougar kitten came in, we raised her for a while, and then sent her to the zoo.

I would like to have a jelly-jar full of flesh-eating bacteria. I could feed it kittens.

I would name it Frodo.

Sometimes I take a carton of eggs out of the fridge and look at it and think that maybe one day I'll crack an egg and a little baby chicken will fall out, and I'll wash him off and raise him indoors. And then....then I'll have a friend.

^^ This has actually been my plan for a long time now ^^

Well Lennie, you might just want to keep an eye on that George fellow. It'll end in tears I tell ya.

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Hmmm I wonder what it says about me that my first though was not Of Mice and Men, but the Bugs Bunny and the Abominable Snow Man cartoons ("I'll love him and squeeze him and call him George.")

Is that from "Of Mice and Men"? It's been so long since I've read it.

Yep. I think it's been about 20 years since I read it.

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Hmmm I wonder what it says about me that my first though was not Of Mice and Men, but the Bugs Bunny and the Abominable Snow Man cartoons ("I'll love him and squeeze him and call him George.")

Same here. :D But then one thought lead to another...

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A treecat from the universe of David Weber!

Just like the title says, what kind of off the wall pet(s) would you want? Myself, I'd love to have a fish tank (with a lockable top) with a lobster and a striper (striped bass) in it. I also want a duck, but that isn't as odd as my other choices.

ETA, please keep your choices non-human and real.

besides me? ok i'll bite.

i'd like to have a cougar/puma/mountain lion.

i have dreams of them attacking me all the time.

i dont die in the dreams,so i can only assume i learned from it somehow.

plus i think they are drop dead gorgeous....feminine but with teeth and claws.

i had one go mental on me on a trip with my wife when we were young..we made eye contact...and i could see it wanted to kill me.it totally freaked,went to being docile by the cage to snarling and lunging at me.i felt like i was the antichrist or something the way it reacted,then again,it could have hated my cologne.
it was scary but profoundly moving at the same time?

probably why i am infatuated with them...like i am with women..i know they will kill me...but i just cant resist...what a metaphor.

i will add a ring tailed lemur to the mix..me, my cougar ,and my crazy as batshit lemur..we would have some mad fun.

i love things with fur,i get the creeps from coldblooded shit,i prefer warm fuzzy things....even if they got there jaws on my throat.

animals aint pets. They are persons.

From dictionary.com: "The composite of characteristics that make up an individual personality; the self"

Animals have personalities. Therefore they are persons.

animals aint pets. They are persons.

From dictionary.com: "The composite of characteristics that make up an individual personality; the self"

Animals have personalities. Therefore they are persons.
Okay, but the first post asked what your ideal pet would be.

From Meriam Webster (www.m-w.com): "a domesticated animal kept for pleasure rather than utility"

So, running with your little game, animals can be but aren't always pets. So what? :rolleyes:

animals aint pets. They are persons.

From dictionary.com: "The composite of characteristics that make up an individual personality; the self"

Animals have personalities. Therefore they are persons.

My ideal pet would be an anthropomorphizing semanticist.

I want to say a child with down syndrome, but that would make me appear cruel or something, so there, i've said it, and admitted some guilt in doing so. I think that leaves me with a clean record.

A penguin, but only if it can hold its liquor. ;)

For non-real animals, I would have to say a griffon.

I want to say a child with down syndrome, but that would make me appear cruel or something, so there, i've said it, and admitted some guilt in doing so. I think that leaves me with a clean record.

Behold the thread-killer!

A grey wolf.

A penguin with a jetpack strapped to it.

Behold the thread-killer!
:D

a rattlesnake is what I always wanted. As long as it doesn't bite me, I'd love to keep one as a pet.
My old roommate had one of those. I was really glad my room was far from his and not really accessable by snake...

Walking the scale up-
Sugar Glider (http://animal-world.com/encyclo/critters/Sugar_Gliders/Images/SugarGliderWCS1_U22Spice.jpg), because that's cute as hell, and because they can do this. (http://lamington.nrsm.uq.edu.au/images/fauna/Sugar.jpg) Really, the ferret is so old hat as a silly hippie pet, the Sugar Glider is where it's at.

I heard at one point that they where domesticating foxes and selling them as pets. My first thought was, "For fucks sake, is that really neccisary?" Unfortunately, I also thought, "How cool would it be to have a pet fox?"

Since childhood I've wanted a back yard with a giant faux rock slope with water slides in it for my pet otters. Otters are just cool.

They'd be watched over by my pet walrus, since I've already wandered into crazy pet world...

A grey wolf.
i also love wolves....it gives me a sense of family and loyalty.

plus they are just too damn adorable.

i also love wolves....it gives me a sense of family and loyalty.

plus they are just too damn adorable.
It's all fun and games until the wolf starts to think, "I should be pack leader..."

It's all fun and games until the wolf starts to think, "I should be pack leader..."

lol....good point.

but wolves aint the sopranos.

you get weak..your out and the next toughest steps up...kinda primitive and honest if you ask me.

people cling to this idea of money equals power..which it does...but in the real world(read animal)your the mack daddy and slip...young buck fights other young bucks...and your put out to pasture...if your lucky.

wow...sorry...reading more into an innocent thread...lol...gotta lay off the captain morgan.

there is something inately honest about animals..and wolves especially.

kind of hard for us pussy humans to swallow....but we love our pets!

we want to pet and revere the wolve/animal....but reject it 's premise.

I'd love a pet skunk.

I've also mentioned more than once my desire to train a pack of weasels to seek and attack the scrotums of my targets. But that's business, not pleasure. ...Okay, it can be both. :)

A Peregrine Falcon would be the ultimate in cool. :)

I'd love a pet skunk.

I've also mentioned more than once my desire to train a pack of weasels to seek and attack the scrotums of my targets. But that's business, not pleasure. ...Okay, it can be both. :)

A Peregrine Falcon would be the ultimate in cool. :)

I've always wanted a pet Lunatic Goofballs. Yes, I'm aware that the thread says no humans. I stand by my post :p :fluffle:

Since childhood I've wanted a back yard with a giant faux rock slope with water slides in it for my pet otters. Otters are just cool.

Ooh, can I bring my otters to play on your water slides, too? Otters are the best. But you'd have to be okay with us bringing along this guy (http://www.flickr.com/photos/whereyouthinkyougoing/92776869/in/set-72057594055931133/), because donkeys are even better than otters. :) Oh, and since Veronica is big enough, you think we could also fit in one of these (http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/ses/images/capybara.jpg)? Really? Aw, thanks! :p

(Can you believe they have capybara stuffed animals (http://www.tapirback.com/tapirgal/gifts/friends/rodent/capybara-plush-stuffed-toy-191d.jpg)? Cuuuuuuute.)

Harlequin fetus

A sterile tribble.

A giant tortoise.
Barring that, a big cat, like a tiger or a puma, to walk around with in my neighborhood.

I would REALLY like a genetically modified Elephant, genetically modified to be really small like the size of a dog....*nods*

White Tiger.

I would REALLY like a genetically modified Elephant, genetically modified to be really small like the size of a dog....*nods*

That would be really really cool. Vice versa would be better, an elephant sized dog. Yup.

Dental cavities. That would be an odd pet to have.

Hydra!

well, i've always wanted a lion, or cheetah, or some other cat-related animal.. but i think i'd be happiest if i just had a whole zoo with lots of different animals :D

Well...a dragon.

Duh..

A Flying Squirrel

Anteater, my national animal. Most amusing animals right after the platypus.

A cute little turtle, not a tortise though, because I live in a studio and that would get awfully cramped.

Failing that, a Xenomorph from the Aliens movies. It could live on my ceiling and eat any thugs that break in.

Edit for spelling

I want to get a chinchilla and a mink just to say "I bought fur" to a PETA member.

And plus, chinchillas are just the sexiest lil animals.

*proves point*

http://www.furnfeathers.co.uk/chinchilla%20mum.JPG

Giant squid! They're tough on the carpet, though.

Giant squid! They're tough on the carpet, though.Now that's just silly. Why would you put carpet in your swimming pool in the first place?

Now that's just silly. Why would you put carpet in your swimming pool in the first place?
That's what I told the squid, but just kept insisting. That and the wallpaper.

I was always wanting a little dragon or iguana of some kind, but my family just thinks that's plain weird. (Even though lots of people have lizards as pets...) And once me and my friends were joking that we'd have elephants as pets when we grew up... But I doubt that.

I've always wanted a cat... but that's not a weird pet.

...When I was really little I wanted a Tyrannosaurus Rex as a pet... You know, a little guard for the front door, someone to take me to the store, someone to eat the mailman... er..

I have always wanted a pet bat. My favorite kind of bat is the Flying Fox, a type of fruit bat with a cute face. (That's why it's my national animal.) A flying fox fruit bat was the main character in a book I loved as a kid, Stella Luna.

Here are pictures of a flying fox wildlife preserve:
http://www.geocities.com/ozwildlife/bats.html

and look at the baby one!
http://www.geocities.com/ozwildlife/Images/Animal-Rose001.jpg

Argh! Too cute! *kryptonite*

Ooh, can I bring my otters to play on your water slides, too? Otters are the best. But you'd have to be okay with us bringing along this guy (http://www.flickr.com/photos/whereyouthinkyougoing/92776869/in/set-72057594055931133/), because donkeys are even better than otters. :) Oh, and since Veronica is big enough, you think we could also fit in one of these (http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/ses/images/capybara.jpg)? Really? Aw, thanks! :p

(Can you believe they have capybara stuffed animals (http://www.tapirback.com/tapirgal/gifts/friends/rodent/capybara-plush-stuffed-toy-191d.jpg)? Cuuuuuuute.)
As long as the donkey came with one of these (http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/436431/2/istockphoto_436431_eureka.jpg) you're on. I am in gold country, ya know...

And the little wierdos are okay as long as they don't eat my sugar gliders. But more than that and we start gettin' all "Neverland Ranch"....

I'd like a Warg, one of the wolf-monsters from lord of the rings. I'd teach it to play fetch (with a tree-trunk) and I would ride it to school, and have it kill and eat Tahir (long personal story there). If my friends all got Wargs, we could go on rampages and attack villages of puny elves.

I'd have to go with the weasel group -- otters, definitely, A#1 with a bullet. There was this otter who lived at the Bronx Zoo who used to dance on the street corner. Seriously. Their enclosure was in a high traffic area, and any time a lot of people amassed there, this otter would come out of the little den thing, slip across the little swimming pool, hop out on the human side, next to the fence, stand up on his hind legs and do a dance, back and forth. It was a very good dance -- very snakelike, on his hind legs, lot of vertical twisting of his body. He'd keep this up for about 10 minutes, take his applause, and go back inside. You gotta love otters.

Failing otters, I'd go with a badger, but only if I had a big back yard. They like their privacy.

For non-mammals, squids. I've been thinking how cool it would be to have a big, wall-sized tank full of calamari ever since I visited the Naples aquarium and watched their squids swimming about in tight formations, changing colors all the time. They were almost certainly planning the ultimate world takeover, but they looked so cool. Nature's Lite-Brite.

Oh, and sharks of course. I need a shark tank for my volcano lair.

Something that would live long so one of those Turtle's that live upto about 200 years.

I want a pet fox like the domesticated ones in Russia...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0208_050208_foxes.html

I want a pet fox like the domesticated ones in Russia...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0208_050208_foxes.html

My Sister would proberly want one of those.

I was always wanting a little dragon or iguana of some kind, but my family just thinks that's plain weird. (Even though lots of people have lizards as pets...) And once me and my friends were joking that we'd have elephants as pets when we grew up... But I doubt that.

I've always wanted a cat... but that's not a weird pet.

...When I was really little I wanted a Tyrannosaurus Rex as a pet... You know, a little guard for the front door, someone to take me to the store, someone to eat the mailman... er..
Here's a story to give your family some sense of perspective. I swear this is absolutely true:

I knew a guy in NYC whose dad was a crawlyologist (I mean an entymologist) for the Museum of Natural History. And his dad had the habit of returning from field expeditions with odd pets.

In their average sized (i.e. small) NY apartment, they had 3 cats, 2 dogs, a gila monster, 2 other kinds of lizards, 2 boa constrictors (6 & 8 feet long), 3 parrots, a poisonous water snake that ate goldfish, 2 tarantulas, and Winston the frog. Their freezer was packed with rats, mice, and mealy worms.

Of this menagerie, there were 3 standouts:

Balboa the constrictor, my favorite, who used to enjoy wrapping himself around my torso and climbing through my hair.

The infamous Taco, a psychotic green parrot rescued from Mexico (but too late), who muttered and laughed to herself incessantly and used to escape from her cage and the apartment by unknown means and go walking about the neighborhood (she couldn't fly), terrorizing people. She was known to the police. She'd walk for miles. She took over a cab once. They used to get calls from the cops: "Your bird is on Queens Boulevard again. Would you come and get it, please?"

And Winston, the Amazonian bird-eating frog. Dr. Crawly's pride and joy. They had a big terrarium in the living room with nothing in it but moss, and to show off Winston, he'd open the terrarium, peel back the moss like a blanket, and there it was -- :eek: -- this giant thing, bright green with brilliant red and yellow lumps, all squishy and wonky like a half-filled water balloon, I swear it was like a foot and a half long and almost as wide. And Dr. Crawly would be just crooning over it. "Isn't he magnificent? Now don't stick your finger in there because he'll bite it clean off."

Yep. Pets. They gladden our days.

I want a Penguin and I will name her Pen-Pen.

"You have a monkey? pfft, I have a friggin penguin." - Me to my friend

As long as the donkey came with one of these (http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/436431/2/istockphoto_436431_eureka.jpg) you're on. I am in gold country, ya know...

And the little wierdos are okay as long as they don't eat my sugar gliders. But more than that and we start gettin' all "Neverland Ranch".... Santa Cruz is gold country? I had no idea *packs boots and sieve onto donkey*. I'll be right there! And no, Capybaras are strictly vegetarians (I think :eek:), they're just big-ass rodents, they won't hurt your silly flying sugar bombs. Unless they actually sit on one, that is. :p

Also, it's only Neverland when there's touching. :p


@ Muravyets: What an awesome, awesome story. :D

Harlequin fetus

*gasp*

A down syndrome harlequin fetus.

:D

An ocelot, or a Cape buffalo.

I see your ocelot and I raise you a margay. :D

I want to say a child with down syndrome, but that would make me appear cruel or something, so there, i've said it, and admitted some guilt in doing so. I think that leaves me with a clean record.
I laughed, I think that makes me just as bad.



I'd like a penguin, some tigers, maybe a lion or two.... do chipmunks count as odd? I want chipmunks.

I'd like an orangutan trained to drink beer, wear clothing and hats and smoke cigars.

I want a Wombat. You can't top a wombat. Just try it, and watch how you fail.

Just like the title says, what kind of off the wall pet(s) would you want?
A Velociraptor that I would train to "Sic 'em!" :D

I've always wanted a pet Lunatic Goofballs. Yes, I'm aware that the thread says no humans. I stand by my post :p :fluffle:

We require careful handling. We're more dangerous than pitbulls in our own special way. :)

I would rather like to keep an American as a pet, mainly for the challenge of not ending up drowning it in a canal in a plastic bag.

Feeding it would probably be horrendous, I've heard from somwhere like The National Geographic Channel that their daily intake can be equated to that of the yearly intake of a herd of African Elephants.

When I'm out, they'd be no pining for it's owner, the TV will be on, with soap operas and Fox News on to keep the happy tubby American happy while their ferocious appetite is attended to by the gigantic tubs of food and coca-cola.

The shit and gas they are full of would be beneficial, the excrement being used to fertilise the garden, and the gas being used to heat the home.

And, when they get too annoying and clingy, they can be slaughtered, their meat enough to feed an impoverished family in a year provided it is refrigerated, and the blubber used as gelatine, making a delightful dessert following on from all that American fatty meat to be sampled and consumed.

A Velociraptor that I would train to "Sic 'em!" :D

Aww, how cute, a feathered coyote! :p

okay forget the battle mokey-

I want a family of giraffes, a family of elephants and a bunch of sugar gliders running around my thousand acres of property that I also want

Myrth!!! ;)

Or barring that, an ocelot-wyvern hybrid...

An Aardvark..... not really, just cause I won one and lost it. (see my sig for details)
An anteater... :rolleyes: Seriously Noffy, whoever heard of mods giving out aardvarks? That would be just plain spendthrift. If they really want to gain any kind of following (which they do, of course), they'll need to use good, quality anteaters... otherwise it'll ravage the servers.


... wait ....

I'd have a pet Czardas. They're dead easy to keep; all you have to do is feed them the odd ignorant n00b and train them to do their sarcasm outside rather than on the rug.

I'd have a pet Czardas. They're dead easy to keep; all you have to do is feed them the odd ignorant n00b and train them to do their sarcasm outside rather than on the rug.
True. There's only the minor problem that they tend to plot world domination and blow up the neighborhood or even the planet every now and then, but get a good lawyer (eh, sorry UK, "solicitor"...) and you're set for life. :p

True. There's only the minor problem that they tend to plot world domination and blow up the neighborhood or even the planet every now and then, but get a good lawyer (eh, sorry UK, "solicitor"...) and you're set for life. :p
Eh, it'd be cheaper just to have the litty tyke neutered before he can do any damage.

Here boy! :D

Eh, it'd be cheaper just to have the litty tyke neutered before he can do any damage.

Here boy! :D
Ok. They cost several quintillion Multiversal Credits (one MC = £870198486028940503093, adjusted for inflation) each, although that shouldn't worry you because you obviously have enough funds to pay for the neuterisation.... I believe the fees are themselves several times larger than the cost of the thing, as one has to shoot it with a massive SunCrusher Turbolaser/Ion Cannon Neutraliser Mk. XVI, which requires the construction of a Death Universe (a universe-sized Death Star).

Anyway....

Meh, my Czardas is still underage. I'd just get him drunk on miniscule amounts of beer, wait for him to pass out and do it with my duelling spork. For this is the way it has been done for millennia in the North. Because, you know, we're 'ard 'ere.

I would go with a pet pet. Yes the pet pet is the greatest pet in the world. Dont even need to name em' just call 'em pet. Come and get your pet pet, its whatever you think it is, ITS IMAGENATION...or some other really gay phrase like that (Gay as in happy not fag...that also sounds bad hmmm...dont hurt me?)

Santa Cruz is gold country? I had no idea *packs boots and sieve onto donkey*. I'll be right there! And no, Capybaras are strictly vegetarians (I think :eek:), they're just big-ass rodents, they won't hurt your silly flying sugar bombs. Unless they actually sit on one, that is. :p
Well, it's gold country in the way that Northern California is...but I grew up 20 miles down river from Sutters Mill, so I tend to think of myself as 'in gold country' even when I'm really not. And really I wanted to put up a picture of Mad Jack from Grizzly Adams (lost you again, didn't I?) but couldn't find one with his cantankerous mule in it.
Also, it's only Neverland when there's touching. :p
Well, if there isn't touching, what's the point?:eek:

This one:
http://www.futuramer.ru/pics/publications/characters_promo/Nibbler.jpg

Why, a winged cat, ofcourse !:)

Odd pets eh? My younger brother had a crayfish for a few years. Bought it when it was like an inch long or so and it got to about 6-7 inches. Used to escape the aquarium and run around the house at night; we'd find it in the morning all dried up and nearly dead.

My friend wants an armadillo when he moves to his apartment on campus. I dunno what I'd like though......Probably a pig. Pigs kick ass.

I reserve this one for me:
http://nekobaka.cool.ne.jp/talk_show/futurama/images/lucy_futurama32.jpg

As nobody's said prehistoric animals don't count I'd have to go for this. (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4183) What better pet could there possibly be than a guinea pig the size of a buffalo? A good living pet would be a giant panda, selectively bred for docility like a ragdoll cat. Then you could have it wandering around the house.

And really I wanted to put up a picture of Mad Jack from Grizzly Adams (lost you again, didn't I?) No you didn't, we had that on TV here, too. Of course I never watched it, so I wouldn't have recognized the pic anyway. :p

Well, if there isn't touching, what's the point?:eek: Well, okay, as long as there are no minors involved and all the assorted pets don't get to watch, I guess there could be some touching involved. But that'll cost you some nuggets, my friend. :p

(Oh wait, let me preempt any bad "gold digger" puns real quick. There. Better. :))

I'd like either a dragonet (Pern-style) or a cat who walks through walls. :p

Tamed tiger, or dragon. Possibly both.

A siberian white tiger.

Santa Cruz is gold country? I had no idea *packs boots and sieve onto donkey*. I'll be right there! And no, Capybaras are strictly vegetarians (I think :eek:), they're just big-ass rodents, they won't hurt your silly flying sugar bombs. Unless they actually sit on one, that is. :p

Also, it's only Neverland when there's touching. :p


@ Muravyets: What an awesome, awesome story. :D
Ah, yes, it was a charming domicile in which to be walking to the bathroom by yourself at 3 AM. :)

Tamed tiger, or dragon. Possibly both.
Why settle for either? Combine!

Odd pets eh? My younger brother had a crayfish for a few years. Bought it when it was like an inch long or so and it got to about 6-7 inches. Used to escape the aquarium and run around the house at night; we'd find it in the morning all dried up and nearly dead.

we have frogs here. they are about 15 years old...pretty old for frogs

the thing is, they are water frogs. they never ever got up on the plastic ledge i put in the aquarium so after a while i took it out.....

when they got to be about 10 years old, the husband started reporting that one would climb out of the tank in the middle of the night.. i dismissed it as halucination....until one night when *I* was up with the husband and son and the damned thing DID climb out of the tank

it has never done it when there was no one there to see it and put it back

its our theory that it just decided to evolve. "i got a thought formin' in my 'ead" so to speak.

big kitty... Really big kitty... ok, maybe not that big.

Panther or Jaguar. maybe a Cheetah.

But if we're going into the Realms of Fantasy...

A Psudo-Dragon (D&D 2nd Edition) or a Fire-Lizard (Pern)

and if we stick to the Non-Human...

a Female Drow and perhaps a Female High Elf...

heck... I still fancy Clearbrook of the Wolfriders.