Ever Owned (or do You Own) an Exotic Animal?

well technically my pets are usually referred to as exotics. although they're about as un exotic as you can get. they're rats. I really can't see what is so exotic about a rat, but that's what they're classed as. way way back when I was about seven I used to have a pet tarantula. THAT I can understand being classified as an exotic pet. but rats? really?

I also had a little turtle once seems like it got out of where we kept it aad my dad stepped on it he hid it in the shed wehre I foudn it sort of squeshed sighhhhhhhhhh. I have also had a baby owl for several weeks and some one let it out of its cage and I never saw it again I would love to own a mountain lion but nope sighhhhhhhhhhhh

I never had an exotic animals but I used to see those animals on Animal Planet and I wonder how it feels to have one. Is turtle an example of exotic animal. Well I have an exotic animal before, it was turtle. This turtle is very kind and now shy to show its face. It do not hid in its shell. It likes to mingle with people but I return it since my grandparents says I can get a skin disease with them which I do not believe before. I love to see turtle after that and I begin to miss that turtle every time I see a turtle. I was given to an animal welfare group in the province. I wonder if that turtle is still alive because that was 20 years ago.

When I was growing up in Texas, I had many animals that I caught and kept as pets including coyotes, Owls, pronghorn antelops, gophers, spiders, and even rattlesnakes, Now that I am older and hopefully wiser, I would hope that people would not have pets that they cannot take care of. I think that animals especially those that are endangered should be kept only by those trained in how to keep and breed those animals and have the ability to do so. There are too many rich people that think that an exotic animal including the endangered ones are expendable. This is wrong. However if the animals are being bred humanly the income of selling those endangered animals could actually help to save that/those animals from extinction.

Yes they are lovely. Heidi Fleiss has about twenty of them. I don't buy exotic animals. I believe they should be left in their own environment. Wild animals are just that--wild. They should not be expected to act in a certain way or act tame when they are wild. I would rather have a cat.

I keep a wide variety of exotics ranging from parrots to snakes, lizards and even tarantulas. They're all very rewarding pets and provided they are cared for correctly, live a long and happy life. Our snakes range from tiny hognoses to 14 foot constrictors and our main aim with them is to provide them with as naturalistic a setup we can manage to give them. Eventually when we have our own house we plan to have a purpose built reptile house out the back. My favourite would have to be my Grey, he is a real character and is a member of the family in every way.