Odd Childhood Pets

bjshields
bjshields Posts: 677 Member
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When I was a kid, we had a pet pig named Leona. Anybody else have a weird family pet? :smile:

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  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    We only had cats and dogs at my house, but my aunt had a pig named Suzie and an emu named Emmett.
  • runnercheryl
    runnercheryl Posts: 1,314 Member
    A duck and a lizard were as weird as mine got.
  • grrrlface
    grrrlface Posts: 1,204 Member
    My pet lamb called Jessie. :)
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    we had a possum. also a pot-bellied pig, a salamander, 2 fire-bellied newts, a giant cage full of finches (beep!), 2 ferrets. a fancy fish (lion-head oranda), a fat-tailed gecko.

    We have had lots of different animals :)
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    Fiddler crabs
    Hermit crabs


    Hermit crabs my dad left outside and they died. goodness that smelled bad.
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    oh I forgot we had hermit crabs too.......Pinchy. Lol
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    And a rabbit named Dumbo. My dad gave him radish tops and he died. Radish tops are poisonous for bunnies.......
  • Wysteriajo
    Wysteriajo Posts: 14
    My pet lamb was named Dinner. Mmmm.
  • gecho
    gecho Posts: 426 Member
    pot bellied Pig named porky, (didn't stay long though, he didn't like our family dog and wouldn't quit chasing her)
    and we've had more goats & sheep than i can count. (grandparents had a ranch and we raised babies that got abandoned)
  • philnelson
    philnelson Posts: 2 Member
    Isn't that a question for facebook?
  • mem50
    mem50 Posts: 1,384 Member
    Hermit crabs, chameleons and a garter snake named George. Granted we had to change the name to Georgette when "he" had babies...LOL

    My husband had an alligator.
  • MissyMissy18
    MissyMissy18 Posts: 315 Member
    Isn't that a question for facebook?

    ??????
  • mem50
    mem50 Posts: 1,384 Member
    My pet lamb was named Dinner. Mmmm.

    Oh, I like you. We had a pig and cows named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
  • SF2514
    SF2514 Posts: 794 Member
    For 3 days I had a pet dead moth in a bubble tape container lol. My mom made me throw him away when she realized what it was =).
  • Franzibear
    Franzibear Posts: 41 Member
    I had some rabbits and birds, nothing weird I guess apart from their names..


    Rabbits were called
    Canini di Lorenzo
    Geronimo von Haas
    Fluke Kelso

    And the birds were called
    Tuzi Fliegend
    Robert Fliegend
    (we figured they were a couple, even though they were both dudes)
  • GorillaNJ
    GorillaNJ Posts: 4,024 Member
    I had pet snapper turtles i kept in a tank in my room. Used to feed them baby mice and frogs... I could not keep up with feeding and cleaning up after them and eventually put them back out in a local pond.
  • sweetchildomine
    sweetchildomine Posts: 872 Member
    When I was really little my sister had a tiny crab she found at the beach. I have no clue how but that thing stayed alive for a whole year! lol My boyfriend had a pet kangaroo named Strawberry when he was a kid lol. No one believes him because they think he's just being a typical Australian trying to trick Americans into believing stupid stuff lol. It's true though, I've seen the pictures hahaha.
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    My pet lamb was named Dinner. Mmmm.

    Oh, I like you. We had a pig and cows named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

    we named our turkeys Thanksgiving and Christmas. :devil:
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  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    My pet lamb was named Dinner. Mmmm.
    Oh, I like you. We had a pig and cows named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
    Well we had 2 full-sized pigs at my house, but they weren't pets. They were delicious, though.

    Funny story, in case anyone thinks I ever had a heart... We were pretty young so my parents tried to play it off like they had just sold the pigs and coincidentally bought a whole bunch of pork chops and ham at the store. One night at dinner I piped up with, "Boy, Sally sure does taste great!"
  • Koshkaxo
    Koshkaxo Posts: 332 Member
    I grew up on a daily farm. Every season I would make friends with one calf and when it grew up it would be much nicer and calmer than the others lol I had one special calf though for 4H. Her name was Sweetie Pie and she had a twin named Sugar Plum... I loved those cows haha. My older sister also had a few lambs that were pretty cute.

    In highschool I owned 3 Mongolian Gerbils, named McMurphy, the Cow and Attila the Hun lol
  • karenjoy
    karenjoy Posts: 1,840 Member
    Jackdaws

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  • Shayzeepoo
    Shayzeepoo Posts: 178 Member
    My boys (age 3 & 1) have a Rabbit, leopard gecko, 2 ball pythons, bearded dragon, rose hair tarantula & Asian forest scorpion.


    I guess technically just the rabbit and gecko are 'theirs'..
  • LeilaFace
    LeilaFace Posts: 390 Member
    We had some weird pets:

    Jackson Chameleons - Names Tito, Latoya, Bo, Michael and Ren and Stimpy. They lived in our Shower (in Hawaii) the "shower" had a screen roof, ficus tree, ferns, orchids, etc etc. They were happy.

    Duck - Named Soupy.

    Then various roosters, rats, mice, rabbits and fish.
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    I had a couple of stick insects.
  • Typhanee83
    Typhanee83 Posts: 309 Member
    I had a hermit crab named Kermit. I think it lasted a couple months. The mofo pinched me one time so I never handled it after that. One day it crawled out of it's shell, buried itself under the rocks and died. Couldn't find that mofo for a week until it started stankin' the place up.
  • bjshields
    bjshields Posts: 677 Member
    Posted under "fun and games" for that reason
  • mem50
    mem50 Posts: 1,384 Member
    My pet lamb was named Dinner. Mmmm.

    Oh, I like you. We had a pig and cows named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

    we named our turkeys Thanksgiving and Christmas. :devil:

    OMGLMAO....too funny, thank goodness I was not taking a drink of my water right then....it would have shot though my nose! We never raised those but I'm sure those would have been the names we picked out.

    We also named our other cows and pigs. Susy, Larry, Moe, Curly Joe, Bonnie & Clyde. The chickens we never bothered with. You just had to yell "here chicky, chicky" and they all came running.
  • CallieM15
    CallieM15 Posts: 910 Member
    I lived on a farm ive had;

    Dog, cat, sheep, goats, cows, jackson chameleons, lovebirds, finches, mountain horned lizard, fish, turtle, tortoise, mice, cardinal, myna bird, horse, bunnies, hamster, ferrets…

    Not all at the same time. WHY did my parents let me always get a new animal when I OBVIOUSLY couldn’t care for them… (always forgot water or food for the little critters =/..) Once I turned 14 I learned how to care for pets, and haven’t killed one being irresponsible since..


    I'm a horrid person.
  • CallieM15
    CallieM15 Posts: 910 Member
    My pet lamb was named Dinner. Mmmm.

    My lambs that I raised were ; Lambchops, Bailey, Vodka, Sugar, Spice, JimmyD..... I was 11-14yr old..

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