Most "unusual" pet you've ever had?

I grew up in the country and we have had many unusual pets over the years.

1 - A pet racoon. It loved Sugar Pops and Fried Eggs. We raised it from a baby that was abandoned. Found it in the refrigerator one morning after Thanksgiving eating leftover Turkey. Had to lock all the cabinets and fridge after that. It eventually was released in the wild and it hung around our barn for years.

2 - A red tailed hawk. Again, it was found as a baby fallen from a nest and covered with insects. We raised it to full grown and released it. It would still come around and let us feed it mice for a while.

3 - Flying Squirrels on occasion

4 - Deer. A baby deer that was hit by a car and its mother killed was raised by us.

5 - We currently have a ferret. Had 3 but the others have died and we only have the one left.

I've had a green burmese python, she was very cool. My father is terrified of snakes, and it took him 6 months to find her because he opened my door one morning (in the AM) after I had turned her heat lamp on, but hadn't turned the bedroom lamp on. Snake promptly had to go.

And I raised a baby deer out at the farm whose mother had gotten hit and killed. Bottle fed it and everything. Named her Twigs, and she was super cool Used to spray paint blaze orange on her during hunting season, as she was allowed to wander. One day, she just never came home

A ferret. Purchased in NV but smuggled into California (where they are illegal, as wild packs of them may rise up and destroy livestock....allegedly).

Excellent, excellent pet. Played well with cats and dogs and was affectionate. Always a crack-up and easy to care for.

raised a newborn deer for awhile (neighbor dogs attacked the mother), kept a baby raccoon found on the highway, and i saved a baby chipmunk from my cats and kept that for awhile. probably not the smartest idea to keep these critters as "pets", definitely not "legal," and i wouldn't do it again now that i'm an adult. this was when i was younger and my parents didn't care. we lived in the country and all animals were returned to the woods when they got stronger.

as a kid i also caught and kept wild turtles, frogs, and snakes as "pets" for short periods of time.

A chameleon named Zeus

a ladybird i called seven because it had seven spots xx

My son had a Rosy Boa as a pet for awhile.... I hated it,

A house pig and a house rooster, they came and went as they pleased.

I grew up with pet donkeys. Now I have a duck (in an apartment).

I grew up with pet donkeys. Now I have a duck (in an apartment).

Oh I love ducks!! Please post a pic!

Rats. I really wish to own a lizard or a snake, though. Or maybe a tarantula. Too bad the most interesting ones are also harder to deal with .
Righ now i have.... Well. The guy in my picture. He's not that strange.

I have only had cats, but one of my cats, Mittens, you could say was "unusual". He LOVED table scraps. His favorite food was BBQ chips, but he would eat just about anything you gave him. He even knew the sound that the chip bag made and would come running to beg for a snack when he heard anything that sounded like it. He was a great boy!

I"ve had lots over the years.

- ball python (lived to be 25)
- chinchilla (adopted by a friend before I went to college along with the hedgehog)
- hedgehog
- iguana (given to a school)
- emu (delicious eggs with black shells and stayed with my parents until she was 24 years old. She loved people)
- fox (sent to a preserve after she hit adolescence)

Now the most unusual pet I own is a mini horse.

A rat named Lola, I still believe they're one of the best pets.

She developed mamory tumors which we had surgery to remove, but they came back months later and we had to put her down. Still missing that little girl after 4+ years

I had a pet green monkey when I was a kid. (Sabaeus monkey) No, it was not in North America. It got mean and we had to release it into the wild. We found a nice spot along a river. It found a village and terrorized it until it ended up in a stew pot. True story.

Also had a tortoise. And my younger brother had a civet cat. Older brother found a baby vulture but it only was a pet for 3 weeks before it died. The rest were normal. I could prove the civet cat with pics if I had to but unfortately half my childhood pics including the ones of me with the monkey went missing in the move back from Africa. :sad: