Crayfish, rats and tortoises are all fantastic pets. I think Jackrat will have a crawfish comment for us when he sees this.
ChiKat said:His name was Bozwelle.
Tom said:We've got a whole rat room. I get jobs for them occasionally. I've had them as pets since I was around 10 years old.
Tom said:I've been chased around a room by a Tokay. Those things are serious. Green Iguanas too. People would give them to me half dead. I'd fix 'em up get them in the sun and healthy, next thing you know they are meaner than a crocodile. (or a cayman)
fgately said:There are some crazy (in the good way) animal lovers here! Wow! A camel? An armadillo? Other than various snakes, lizards, tarantulas, tropical fish, dogs, cats, a ferret, and birds, I only had a couple of unusual pets.
Once, my family and I went to the Arboretum in Arcadia, CA. They had just stocked this giant pond with young catfish. If you threw food in the water, they would act like piranha, and eat it in a swarm. I decided to see if i could catch one by hand, and I did. We brought it home in a ziplock bag, and put it in our 100 gallon aquarium at home. This fish was a voracious monster! It killed and ate every single other fish in the aquarium. I remember it lying on the bottom of the tank, with a hugely distended belly full of tropical fish it had eaten. We gave it to a guy at a pet shop, and it proceeded to eat all of his fish too!
I have also been feeding the fence lizards in my backyard for years. I have had up to five waiting at the back door for me in the morning. I just toss out mealworms to them. Sometimes they get so excited, they would run up my pant leg to eat. They would even eat them right out of my fingers.
My mom made friends with a wild scrub jay in pasadena, that would fly in the front door every morning for a few peanuts. We named him Jaws. He was so cool.